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 - Workgroup Meeting in Minnesota

Mineapolis - July 12, 2005. The ascolab GmbH attends in the UA Work Group Meeting together with 15 other developers of major OPC vendors (ABB, Rockwell, Siemens, Iconics, a.o.) the service specification including WSDL and encoding was finished. Solutions for enhanced security are still in progress and will be finished soon. The agreements on UA will lead OPC technology becoming the major communication layer in automation and beyond.
 

IOP - Interoperability Workshop in Florida

Tampa, Florida - April 25, 2005. The ascolab GmbH participates in the Interoperability (IOP) Workshop in Tampa, Florida. As developer of the certification software (CTT) ascolab attends with the newest XML-DA and HDA test moduls. During this five day event more than 30 vendors with nearly 50 new OPC products are testing against each other. The results of this tests are stored in a database and published in the product catalog on the OPC Foundation web site (www.opcfoundation.org).
 

OPC UA DEVCON - Developer Conference in Washington

Redmond - April 19, 2005. devcon_05
OPC UA on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond
Microsoft and the OPC Foundation sponsors a two day developer converennce on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. Here OPC Members get a behind the sceens look on OPC Unified Architecture and Microsoft Indigio as the infrastruktur for upcomming web services. Technological highlights as well as migration strategies for existing OPC products are discussed into detail together with a close look on tools and technology. The ascolab GmbH presents the enhanced certification of the new OPC interfaces. The concept of certification for UA servers and clients will be published simultaneous with UA Specification, ensure highst quality of OPC products from the very first beginning.
   

HMI - World's largest Trade Show for Industry

Hannover - April 11, 2005. hmi_05
OPC Booth on the HMI Tradeshow in Hannover, Germany
The ascolab GmbH presents services arround OPC on the Hannover Fair. On the shared booth of the OPC Foundation (Hall 11, B 13) representing companies Cyberlogic, DVT Machine Vision, Fast Automation, Iconics, Siemens and Wonderware show their products together with ascolab. As in the former years the OPC booth became a highly frequented meeting point for OPC users, automation vendors and system integrators, discussing technical details in relaxed atmosphere. The special intrests are focused on the architecture of the new OPC UA interface (Unified Architecture).
 

Unified Architecture - Workgroup Meeting in Texas

Austin - March 14, 2005. During the Unified Architecture workgroup meeting in Austin, Texas the functions of the new UA interface are worked out in detail. From the active team work between ascolab GmbH, represented by Matthias Damm, and the software architects of more than 20 other companies, the interface definition is nearly completed. The first draft of the specification will be given to the OPC members in late summer this year. The final release of the UA specification is planned for fall 2005.
   

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