The MatrikonOPC Server for IndustrialSQL (InSQL) supports both real-time and historical data access to one or more Wonderware IndustrialSQL databases or Wonderware Historians. Applications that require connectivity to these databases can use this OPC Server to access real-time and historical process data that is archived by an online analyzer, laboratory personnel, etc. Key features include:

• Support for Wonderware IndustrialSQL databases and Wonderware Historians

• Access to both real-time and historical data

• Support for reading

• Connects to multiple databases simultaneously

• Aggregates List: Average, Count, DurationBad, DurationGood, Interpolated, Maximum, MaximumActualTime, Minimum, MinimumActualTime, PercentBad, PercentGood, StandardDeviation, TimeAverage, Total, Variance, and more...

Whitepaper by Iconics: Today’s manufacturing and building operations are faced with the need to reduce cost and be more competitive with the fewest of resources. Connectivity to different infrastructures for data gathering and the need to analyze and visualize data in real time is ever more important in today’s economic environment. Recently, visualization systems have taken a giant step forward incorporating advanced hardware accelerated 3D graphics into standard off -the shelf commercial products.
As a result, providing compelling 3D graphics applications and having access to plant data is the key to having a competitive advantage.

This paper presents an overview of a powerful approach to visualization of manufacturing that greatly reduces the learning curve for developing Human Machine Interface (HMI) applications.

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The MatrikonOPC UA Wrapper for COM OPC Servers provides OPC UA clients with access to legacy COM OPC DA, HDA, and AE OPC Servers using OPC UA Specifications. The UA Wrapper exposes COM OPC servers as folders in the OPC UA server’s address space. The UA Wrapper can be configured to host multiple OPC servers. Two types of communication protocol are supported by the UA Wrapper: TCP and HTTP.

Features:

• Built with the latest UA SDK from the OPC Foundation.

• Filtering is supported to improve the efficiency of browsing large numbers of tags.

• DA, HDA, AE functionality is now available via nodes in separate address spaces.

• OPC Security is now supported: Users can grant and deny access to tags based on user login (Coming Soon!)

Kepware Technologies, a software development company acquired by PTC® (Nasdaq: PTC) in January 2016, today announced that Faurecia, one of the world’s largest automotive equipment suppliers, has implemented Kepware’s IoT Gateway for KEPServerEX® to improve parts traceability throughout the entire manufacturing process—satisfying the needs of customers and internal stakeholders.

The new IoT implementation began with requirements from leading automotive OEMs to improve traceability for the parts Faurecia was producing and to make that production data available on demand. To meet these requirements, Faurecia needed a solution that could connect the various PLCs on the factory floor to IJ Core, its proprietary parts fabrication and Manufacturing Execution System (MES). After careful research, Kepware’s KEPServerEX connectivity platform with the IoT Gateway was selected.

Since implementing the IoT Gateway, Faurecia is able to provide customers with the product traceability they require. Increased supply chain visibility enables the world’s largest automotive OEMs to satisfy regulatory requirements and improve overall product quality for consumers.

Internal Faurecia stakeholders are benefiting as well. Operators on the machine floor note that communications are much faster, and the Quality Assurance department has the industrial data they need in order to analyze production quality. Additionally, executives in Faurecia’s boardroom can now access and leverage Operations data to boost efficiencies across the organization.

Given the ease of implementation and overall success of the Porto Real, Brazil pilot, Faurecia plans to standardize on Kepware in its North American, Asian, and European factories in 2016.

“We see huge potential with the IoT Gateway and are excited to deploy it across the 34 countries we operate in,” said Rafael Unruh, Competence Center Manager, Faurecia. “We’re seeing benefits from this implementation from the boardroom down to the shop floor, and only expect them to increase as more locations utilize it. We’re able to be smarter and more nimble in our decision making, which leads to better products and services for our customers.”