OPC UA at ABB Automation World 

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Last week, along with 3000 others, I attended the ABB Automation World Conference. The OPC Foundation had a table in the exhibit hall and a one-hour session to evangelize the OPC Unified Architecture.
 
OPC Table
 
Wolfgang Mahnke from ABB and I manned the OPC table and presented to a standing room only crowd. Our focus was to show that UA no longer stands for Un-Available. We demonstrated two UA clients and three UA servers all interoperating.
 
Clients:
  • OPC Foundation UA Sample Client
  • ICONICS GraphWorX64 (final released version)

Servers:

  • OPC Foundation UA Sample Server
  • Kepware UA Server running in the backplane of a Rockwell Controller
  • ABB Research 800xa UA Server (prototype)
My favorite part was the series of questions we had from the audience at the end of our presentation.  What about redundancy?  How is the performance?  How does UA support backward compatibility? We had great answers for all of their questions! The years of hard work developing UA by the volunteers from our OPC members is beginning to pay off.  UA has hit the mark and is ready for deployment.
 
Posted by Jim Luth on 8-May-08
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