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.News
OPC goes embedded - Unified Architecture Conference
Frankfurt - September 20, 2007.
Together with the SPS-Magazin and the OPC Foundation ascolab hosts a one-day conference focused on OPC Unified Architecture in embedded systems. At this exclusive event the advantages of the new OPC generation is presented especially for manufacturers of embedded devices. Presentations of OPC UA implementions in PLCs together with firsthand reports of developers and end-users round out the picture at this exceptional meeting.Unified Architecture - DevCon2007
Scottsdale, Arizona - June 26-28, 2007. The OPC Foundation hosted a 3-day conference for developers and decision makers. ascolab as sponsor of this event presented technical details of Unified Architecture to an expert audience. As workgroup member of the early days - Matthias Damm - shows insights on software architecture and realization in automation systems and in new applications.IOP - Interoperability Workshop in Florida
Deerfield Beach - May 8-10, 2007. In relaxed atmosphere OPC Client and Server vendors tested their products against eachother to ensure best possible compatibility. In the scope of "Enhanced Certification" ascolab was on site to test OPC Client-Products. With the new test tool "OPC Analyzer" funktion calls of a client can be analyzed and error scenarios can be injected to incerease the stability of OPC-Clients. Products that pass this test qualify for the desired "OPC-Self-Tested" logo.SPS/IPC/Drives - Trade Show
Nuremberg - November 28-30, 2006. On the SPS/IPC/Drives the two worldwide first "next generation" OPC Servers - OPC Unified Architecture - were presented. The company Beckhoff showed the first UA Server on a PLC (CX1100-Series). The company Euros Embedded Systems demonstrated an implementation on an embedded test board (Big Endian, Power-Arm) running under real time operating system Euros. The base for both implementations was developed by ascolab GmbH. During porting on the different platforms ascolab worked closely together with the development of these companies.OPC Unified Architecture - 3-day Conference
Munich - October 10-12, 2006.
In October 2006 the OPC Foundation hosted a 3-day conference in Munich, during this event the new world-wide communication standard for enterprise data communication - OPC Unified Architecture - was unveiled for the leading technologists. Managers, users and developers were presented how the new technology, starting from process- up to enterprise-level, opens up traditional and new application areas.
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