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OPC Unified Architecture

  • Description of what OPC UA is and what it can accomplish

  • Explains how to migrate from OPC to OPC UA

  • For IT-architects, developers, project managers, engineers, and system administrators

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 1-17
  3. Information Modeling: Concepts

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 19-84
  4. Information Modeling: Example and Best Practice

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 85-106
  5. Standard Information Models

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 107-123
  6. Services

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 125-190
  7. Technology Mapping

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 191-202
  8. Security

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 203-253
  9. Application Architecture

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 255-264
  10. System Architecture

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 265-282
  11. Mapping of COM OPC to OPC UA

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 283-292
  12. Migration

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 293-297
  13. Profile

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 299-303
  14. Performance

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner
    Pages 305-309
  15. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner, Matthias Damm
    Pages 311-322
  16. Literature

    • Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner, Matthias Damm
    Pages 323-325
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 327-339

About this book

Motivation for This Book The OPC Foundation provides specifications for data exchange in industrial au- mation. There is a long history of COM/DCOM-based specifications, most pro- nent OPC Data Access (DA), OPC Alarms and Events (A&E), and OPC Historical Data Access (HDA), which are widely accepted in the industry and implemented by almost every system targeting industrial automation. Now the OPC Foundation has released a new generation of OPC specifications called OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA). With OPC UA, the OPC Foundation fulfills a technology shift from the retiring COM/DCOM technology to a servi- oriented architecture providing data in a platform-independent manner via Web Services or its own optimized TCP-based protocol. OPC UA unifies the previous specifications into one single address space capable of dealing with current data, alarms and events and the history of current data as well as the event history. A remarkable enhancement of OPC UA is the Address Space Model by which v- dors can expose a rich and extensible information model using object-oriented techniques. OPC UA scales well from intelligent devices, controllers, DCS, and SCADA systems up to MES and ERP systems. It also scales well in its ability to provide information; on the lower end, a model similar to Classic OPC can be used, providing only base information, while at the upper end, highly sophisticated models can be described, providing a large amount of metadata including complex type hierarchies.

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