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Reducing Integration Costs in the Multi-Vendor Real World
In the real world, there
are multiple brands of shop floor control system hardware in nearly every manufacturing facility. Today's eManufacturing business initiatives demand that shop floor
systems provide access to production data. The real world of HMI, MES, ERP, and other systems also involves multiple vendors communicating between applications using things like
OPC, FastDDE, SuiteLink, Intellution NIO/PDB, AdvanceDDE, DDE, and so on. You need shop floor connectivity solutions that are built to stand up
and perform in these real world scenarios..
In addition to supporting the OPC specification, we protect your
investment in your systems with support for SuiteLink, FastDDE, Intellution NIO, AdvanceDDE, and DDE software interfaces. These interfaces used by popular HMI software such as
Wonderware InTouch, RSView32, Intellution Fix32, and others to connect to communications drivers. When you choose the TOP Server as your communications solution, you'll know that you
will be able to connect to the widest variety of software on the market.
Server Features common to all drivers
- Windows OS support
- Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Windows 2000 Pro & Server
- Windows 2003 Server (and Service Packs)
- Windows XP & XP SP2 Professional
- Windows Vista Business and Ultimate (see application note)
- Multi-threaded application capable of leveraging the latest in dual-core processor and multi-processor technologies for performance boost
- Single interface to nearly ever major HMI using OPC Data Access (DA) interface
- OPC Compliance and Interoperability Tested
- Add drivers at any time, making TOP Server your communications infrastructure platform
- Software licensing keying with internet delivery
- Point, click, drag, drop configuration
Advanced Server Features
- Dial-Up Modem Support in Serial Drivers
- Implement Redundancy Support from your client application to perform the following:
- Switch COM ports
- Switch Ethernet cards
- Control a Modem
- Change device ID or IP Addresses
- Enabled/Disable a device
- Change Timeout settings
- Add functionality to your Client application to detect if a Device is online/offline
via special system Tags that are readily accessible
- Dynamic Tag Creation
- allows you to pass the OPC server the hardware addresses you want to read from your OPC client, makes adding Tags in the OPC Server an option and not a requirement
- Extended functionality also allows you to specify data-type and scan-rate of a tag
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