OPC UA Book

The first OPC Unified Architecture Book, written by Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner and Matthias Damm one of the co-founders of ascolab.

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Unified Architecture - OPC Event in Finland

Helsinki - October 20, 2005. hesinki_05
OPC-Event in Helsinki, Finland
The Helsinki University of Technology was holding an information day dealing with todays and future applications and possibilities of OPC. Matthias Damm, director of ascolab GmbH, was invited as guest speaker and introduced the new OPC technology - OPC Unified Architecture - he explained the arising potentials and demonstrated application scenarios.
 

IOP - Interoperability Workshop Europe

Nuremberg - October 10, 2005. iop_05
IOP Workshop in Nuremberg, Germany
Siemens A&D (Automation & Drives) hosted the event whose large attendannce beat all records. The opportunity of one week of testing with a large number of OPC products was taken by an increasing number of companies. The information exchange and getting to know eachother was appreciated by developers and testers. The ascolab GmbH participated with the Compliance Test Tool (CTT) and tests were focused on Alarm & Events, DataAccess 2 and 3, Historical Data Access and XML-DA Server to serve more than 16 different firms. Companies like Axeda Systems, Beckhoff, CAS, Infoteam Software, KW-Software, Phoenix Contact, Progea, Technosoftware, Siemens, Wonderware and many more have tested key functions of their OPC client and server products following a matrix to insure compatiblity and interoperability. The workshop is part of the certification program driven by the OPC Foundation.
 

Unified Architecture - Workgroup Meeting in Texas

Austin - September 28, 2005. Despite huricane Rita more than 20 participants of different vendors traveled to the UA Workgroup Meeting in Austin. The capricious weather had no effect on the meeting and the first specifications were published as Release Candidates. To bring OPC Unified Architecture on the road to success as soon as possible the group worked concentrated on the documents.
   

UA Early Adopter - Workgroup Meeting in Texas

Austin, Texas - September 26, 2005. Ascolab participated in the Early Adopter Meeting. For fast and easy adoption of the new OPC Unified Architecture the OPC Foundation established a working group that engages the development of software components for migration. The goal of this group is the development of an intermediate layer, that easily enables OPC Members the changeover to the new architecture. The broad-based range of todays OPC products is maintained and a downward compatibility is achieved.
 

Enhanced Certification - Kick Off Meeting in Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio - July 18, 2005. compl_05
Enhanced Certification Workgroup Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio

The new initiative of the OPC Foundation is addressed to high quality, reliability, robustness and interoperability for all OPC products. The goal is to increase the end users confidence and trust in OPC technology by introducing a transparent testing and certification program. Starting from the well known Compliance Test Tool (CTT) and going through Interoperability Workshops (IOP) the certification team works on client and server site verification in independent test facilities all over the globe. By learning form other standard organizations the Foundations certification laboratories will follow fixed testing procedures in defined environment to guarantee reproducible and objective results.

The hotel was evacuated after a fire alarm, luckily the laptops and sandwiches could be saved.

   

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