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Bring OPC Client capabilities to your VB.NET, C#, Visual Basic, C++ and Delphi applications quickly using a proven tool that has been available since 2000 and OPC Interoperability tested many times!
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Developing in .NET?
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  Is your business demanding easier connectivity to plant floor data ?
You are not alone - the increasing number of requests from our over 4000 global clients for easier ways to connect .NET and
Visual Basic applications to OPC data led us to bring you this product. Our clients told us they wanted OPC connectivity made simpler for a variety of reasons, including:
- Business application integration - Getting data to MES,
ERP, and office systems level connectivity is now easier
- OEM HMI Applications - when you need to drive cost
out of your total software solution
- Rapid application deployment - when you need
something simple and fast
- Industry specific applications - when you need
something packaged solutions don't offer.
This software product is a
rapid development tool for the .NET, Visual Basic, Delphi or Visual C++ developer who
needs to quickly, easily, and economically read and write data from any OPC server without writing volumes of code that you then have to support. Read what customers are saying.
Why .NET and VB ? Because the business needs of eManufacturing initiatives are forcing front office to plant floor integration
issues to the forefront. If you're going to connect to MRP, ERP, and other front office systems, you may find that the fastest way to do it is with .NET and/or VB using this product.
Unique Features of the OPC Data Control
- Data Binding for OPC - Read with no code
- setup for reads with a point-and-click interface and the ActiveX control handles all the work of managing the connection to the OPC server. See how easy it can be.
- DCOM connections that work - our multi-threaded design provides the ability to configure a timeout on your calls to
remote OPC servers and maintain a responsive application - other VB connectivity tools and wrappers can't do this.
- Widely tested & well supported - this is the only commercial VB to OPC connectivity tool that was part of the latest OPC Interoperability Workshop testing program.
This solution provides many more unique benefits derived from these features that are not found in other solutions for Visual
Basic to OPC connectivity and a robust feature set to help you get at your process data quickly and easily.
eManufacturing Business Needs are Demanding Plant Data Be Integrated
As manufacturers work to implement their eManufacturing strategies, a significant number have realized that the biggest
issue they have is lack of connectivity to the plant floor. With the ever growing abundance of plant process data made
available by software drivers written to comply with the OLE for Process Control (OPC) specification, the need to get that data
into new and existing business and plant applications written in Visual Basic or Visual C++ grows.
What were your choices before this product ?
Unless you are using an off-the-shelf Human Machine Interface application with OPC client capabilities built in (i.e. Intellution,
Iconics, Wonderware, etc.), the choices available to VB programmers were to use some of the free wrapper dlls that vendors
give away and write a lot of custom code without any support available, purchase complicated C++ source code toolkits, or
use other tools that add a great deal of "weight" to your application in terms of the size of the controls and programming requirement.
A Solution
The OPC Data ActiveX control gives you a choice that is easy to use, adds minimal memory overhead to your application
relative to other solutions, requires much less custom code writing than alternatives, with expert support available. We do this by using our expertise in OPC to manage the complexities of OPC interface code for you while still giving you the
flexibility to do the things you need to do. With runtime free
licenses available for under $1000, the OPC Data ActiveX
control becomes a highly affordable means of turning your application into an OPC client.
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