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ABB

ABB Industrial Systems Ltd - Ireland
Company Profile

The ABB Group serves customers in power transmission and distribution, automation, oil, gas, and petrochemicals, building technologies and in financial services. With novel IT applications, tailored software solutions, growing eBusiness and a fast-expanding knowledge and service base, ABB is building links to the new economy. The ABB Group employs about 160,000 people in more than 100 countries. ABB Industrial Systems manufactures a range of sophisticated Measurement & Control Systems for the Pulp and Paper Industry.

Situation

Measuresoft partnered with ABB Industrial Systems to develop Open Data Logging Software for ABB Customers in the Process Industry. The new OPC Knowledge Provider enhances customer benefits associated with enterprise-wide integration.

Solution

The ABB OPC Knowledge Provider is an integrated data logging system designed and developed specifically using OLE for Process Control (OPC) standards and the Microsoft Windows DNA for Manufacturing framework. It is capable of acquiring data from any OPC compliant data source and will support multiple OLE-DB data stores such SQL Server, Access etc. While the OPC Knowledge Provider can be utilised as a standalone product it was designed to also act as a data server and provides an infrastructure for process monitoring and reporting application development. The OPC Knowledge Provider is a key enabler for ABB’s OPC Knowledge Solutions and has been utilised to provide applications for the Pulp & Paper Industry. Examples of these are Production Monitor & Reporting, Sheetbreak Monitor & Reporting, Sensor Quality Analysis Monitor & Reporting and AccuRay™ QCS Report Historian.

Technologies Used
  • Windows DNA for Manufacturing
  • OPC
  • COM/DCOM
  • Visual C++/Win32/MFC
  • Visual Basic
  • ADO/OLE-DB
  • SQL Server
  • Microsoft Windows™
Benefits

  • OPC is the ideal answer to manufacturers' need for integrating disparate applications throughout their plants in an easy, cost-effective manner.

  • OPC provides flexibility for manufacturing making the plant become a highly responsive part of the supply chain.
  • ABB customers immediately benefit from new Knowledge Solution applications providing details analysis of their manufacturing processes. 
  • Instead of being forced to invest in a multitude of custom application interfaces, users can simply 'snap' together solutions with standard, OPC-compliant components.
About OPC

OPC consists of a standard set of interfaces, properties, and methods for use in process-control and manufacturing-automation applications to enable communication among diverse process control devices, regardless of the controlling software. OPC is based on Microsoft's OLE (now ActiveX), Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technologies. The OPC standard was developed and is being maintained by the OPC Foundation, an independent, non-profit consortium of more than 200 companies, including Measuresoft and ABB.

About OPC Foundation

The OPC Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization comprised of 212 factory and process automation suppliers and manufacturers worldwide. The OPC Foundation charter is to leverage Microsoft technologies to develop industry-standard specifications for multi-vendor hardware/software interoperability in the manufacturing industries.

The OPC Foundation website can be found at http://www.opcfoundation.org .

Measuresoft is a member of the OPC Foundation