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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SPS/IPC/Drives - Trade Show and Technical Congress

Nuremberg - November 23, 2004. spsipc_04
ascolab on the OPC Booth in Nuremberg, Germany
On the booth of the OPC Foundation (Pavilion 6, Booth 118) ascolab GmbH presents services and software components to a large audience for the first time. During the technical congress, in parallel to the show, Matthias Damm explains the architecture and the new features of the "next generation" of OPC interfaces. This convention gives a first view on OPC UA (Unified Architecture). Together with ascolab other companies like Inat GmbH, Siemens AG, Kepware Technologies and Abacon represent themselves on the shared OPC Foundation booth. These companies show server and client products for the complete range of applications including plattform independance and redundancy.
 

Unified Architecture - first meeting in Europe

Nuremberg - September 14, 2004. uameeting_04
OPC-UA Workgroup Meeting in Erlangen, Germany
The ascolab GmbH and Siemens hosted the first Unified Architecture Work Group Meeting in Europe. During three days the group started to bring the existing functionality of DA, A&E and Commands Specifications up to the new UA basis. This important meeting gave European OPC Foundation Members the chance to participate in the design of the next generation OPC. Besides the President Thomas J. Burke (Rockwell Software) and the Unified Architecture Committee Chair Jim Luth (Iconics) nearly 20 software architects from major companies like ABB, Beckhoff, Emerson, Matrikon, OSI Software, Yokogawa and others intensively worked together to push OPC UA into the next stage.
 

OPC testing in Asia

Singapore - July 19, 2004. The new petrochemicals complex in Daya Bay, south east China, build by CSPCL (joint venture of China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Shell Nanhai BV, Petrochemicals Company Limited) will be powered by four Turbosets (steam turbines with 60MW each) delivered by Siemens Power Generation. During one week of extensive testing of the communication link between the redundant S7-400 PLCs and the Distributed Control System supplied by Yokogawa, the OPC connection was proven for stable behavior even under harsh conditions. For OPC Client and Server the ascolab GmbH consulted and supported during installation and test procedure. The highly reliable link became another success story of OPC usage in a multi vendor environment.
   

Publication for Hannover Fair

Wuerzburg - April 19, 2004. The ascolab GmbH joined the new special edition of Praxis Profiline "OPC - Edition 2004" published by Vogel Industry Media. This bilingual special edition covers the OPC interfaces starting from technical background going through new technologies like OPC-XML and finally describes the future comming up with "Unified Architecture". Additionally applications in practice are shown, to demonstrate experience in OPC technology and todays success.
The complete article as PDF document: Process Networking (Praxis Profiline, Vogel Medien, Wuerzburg 2004)
 

IOP Workshop United States

Lake Forest - March 29, 2004. The ascolab GmbH participates in the North American Interoperability (IOP) Workshop in Lake Forest, California. During the event ascolab tested a new prototype of the Compliance Test Tool (CTT) for OPC XML-DA specification against several XML services. The new CTT module for OPC XML-DA will be released soon. The IOP Workshop was hosted by Invensis/Wonderware and attracted 20 vendors form all over the world. More than 50 OPC products were tested to remain compatibility and interoperability of today's and future OPC applications.
   

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