OPC Education
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The courses has targeted content for OPC vendors or OPC users - technically well-founded, practical and oriented at the requirements of our participants!

OPC manufacturers seminar

This two-day seminar offers potential manufacturers of OPC products the opportunity to familiarize themselves efficiently and successfully with OPC technology.

The main focus is on the Data Access specification for DCOM and XLM.

Contents of the seminar:

- Introductory overview of OPC (history, concept, significance)
- Presentation of technological fundamentals (DCOM, XML, Web Services and .NET, etc.)
- Comparison between OPC and existing solutions(proprietary drivers, DDE servers)
- Explanation of current specifications(OPC Data Access 2.0x, 3.0, OPC XML Data Access 1.0, OPC Data eXchange etc.)
- Performance assessment and sample applications
- Implementation of a Modbus OPC server
- Creation of Excel clients using Visual Basic for Application
- Discussion of security settings
- Extensive exercises
- Questions and answers

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OPC users seminar

Two-day seminar intended for OPC users. It is designed to give participants an overview as detailed information about the OPC technology.

Contents of the seminar:

- Introductory overview of OPC (history, concept, significance)
- Presentation of technological fundamentals(DCOM, XML, Web Services and .NET, etc.)
- Explanation of current specifications(OPC Data Access 2.0x, 3.0, OPC XML Data Access 1.0, etc.)
- Commissioning of OPC servers (PROFIBUS, CANopen, S7/MPI, ...)
- Working with clients
- Creation of Excel clients using Visual Basic for Application
- Security settings (DCOM) in OPC communication between remote computers
- OPC connection across firewalls
- Performance benchmarks and Strategies for performance optimization
- Archiving OPC data in databases
- Extensive exercises
- Questions and answers

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