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Features | Benefits | How the OPC Connection Works | Comparison | Config Screenshots
Features
- Variety of Instrumentation Controls - 60 total ActiveX controls plus 3 plotting components in your choice of 4 packages
- Supported development environments - Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual Studio .NET.
- Supported Operating Systems - Win 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP
- Works in most major HMI environments supporting ActiveX - Wonderware, Intellution, RSView32, Iconics, etc. - get our free demo and try with yours if not listed.
- Provide data to the controls from any source -- your code, other ActiveX controls, OPC servers, etc.
- To the controls, data is just a number/value - once you have the data in your program, you can pass it to these controls by setting properties
or calling method.
- OPC Client Capability built into most of the ActiveX controls for direct connection to data sources.
- See controls list for details on which controls offer OPC capabilities.
- Connect to OPC Servers supporting the Data Access 1.x and 2.x specifications
- Product has been tested at an OPC Interoperability Workshop with a variety of 3rd party OPC servers - more info
- Intuitive Point and Click Configuration including item browsing
- Support for connecting to local and remote (via DCOM) OPC Servers
- Properties automatically update with live process data without any user code once connected to OPC server items
- For controls with user input enabled, the control can automatically write data
to the OPC server - user input is easily disabled both at design and runtime to provide write-protection
- User configurable update rate (in millisecond units) on each control - tune performance to application needs
- OPC item connections can be programmatically added and removed using code for users wanting to create sophisticated applications that
change their behavior at runtime based on operating conditions.
- Connect one or many properties to OPC items - for example - tie configuration settings for min/max ranges to OPC items to allow the control
to adapt on the fly to changing conditions
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Developer Benefits
- Ease of configuration and use
- Reduced engineering time
- Faster time to completion for your projects
- Little expertise of OPC interface specifics and coding details required
- Affordable distribution licensing models available including runtime free distribution
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