Unified Automation and DSInteroperability join together to provide complete infrastructure to enable rapid deployment of OPC Unified Architecture in North America for Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms.
Schwabach, Germany – March 08, 2010 - Today Unified Automation and DSInteroperability have announced a unique agreement that will facilitate suppliers rapidly developing OPC Unified Architecture products for Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms in North America.
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The new, enhanced version of Unified Automation’s Software Development Kits (SDK) for OPC UA Server and Client will make developers life much easier. Besides being robust and compliant a Toolkit or SDK must provide required functionality in terms of UA Profiles and Conformance Units. In addition tools for modeling information and generating code or certificates make it an outstanding framework. Further more migration to the large installed base of OPC products is the key for fast adoption of OPC UA. For legacy connection and much more, high performance UaGateway takes the lead by supporting upcoming DI Specification. The technology preview is available for download and the release is scheduled for Q1/2010.
 Schwabach, Germany – November 1, 2009. Unified Automation GmbH is the first vendor of SDKs for the new standard OPC Unified Architecture. The ANSI C and the C++ SDKs were the first on the marked and are the base for many OPC UA products today. Those SDKs speed up the development by providing common functionality in a flexible design surrounded by helper classes and functions. These services are well tested and offer faultless and compliant functionality. Thus the developer of the UA product can concentrate on the application that resides on a stable and robust high level code, which is handling all the OPC UA related communication tasks. Implementing the data provider interface becomes very simple, but on the information modeling side some more work is to do. The “address space”, the way a UA server shows its data to the outside world, must be designed, or better said “modeled”, including objects, types and references before implementation is started.
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Unified Automation’s Software Development Kit (SDK) was the favored technology to integrate OPC UA in ‘Alpha Ventus’, an offshore wind park test site in the North Sea. OPC Unified Architecture is ensuring fast, reliable and secure communication with onshore control applications and enterprise information systems.
Permanently strong and steady wind guaranties effective wind energy generation 45 kilometers from the German coast. Each wind mill is designed as an autonomous, fully automated, self-monitoring energy plant. Offshore wind parks, build far away from the coast and waterways, have very low environmental impact. They must run under rough conditions like humidity, salt and extreme temperatures and their autonomous control system must guaranty most effective operation at all times. Depending on weather condition accessibility might be infrequently, therefore all components must be construed for long maintenance intervals and of course this includes the software components. The need for long term operation leads to high requirements in terms of reliability and robustness.
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OPC specification enhancements, pre-tested platforms and SDKs shorten time to marked.
In a case study on standards-based industrial communication the OPC Foundation, Intel, ascolab and Unified Automation worked closely together to measure the performance of OPC UA. The study compares OPC UA communication on different processor and operating system platforms.
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With the new OPC Unified Architecture (UA) the OPC Foundation gave the answer to increasing demand and extended requirements for standardized communication interfaces on the embedded device market. Industrial automation systems based on QNX Software Systems RTOS now take advantage from this new technology.
Erlangen, Germany – August 10, 2009. Unified Automation GmbH, ascolab GmbH and QNX Software Systems have proven OPC UA technology on QNX Neutrino 6.4.1. Unified Automation GmbH announced its new product: a Software Development Kit (SDK) supporting QNX. This proven and production ready OPC UA SDK reduces development effort, thereby shortening time to market for the integration of OPC UA on Neutrino based embedded devices.
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For better understanding of the OPC UA technology in general and particular implementation details Unified Automation and ascolab agreed to offer a wide range of training clases, developer workshops and seminars.
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