Description:
This two-day seminar offers potential manufacturers of OPC products the opportunity to familiarize themselves efficiently and successfully with OPC technology. The seminar draws on ten years of experience in the development of OPC products. Basic OPC technology and OPC specifications are explained in a practice-oriented manner.

The main focus is on the Data Access specification for DCOM and XLM. Other specifications, security settings, performance assessments and sample applications are also presented in detail.

Participants will be given ample opportunity to gain practical experience.

Target group:
Users of OPC products, system integrators, sales engineers, service staff.

Requirements:
You consider using OPC technology in your projects or you are already using OPC products but you want to deepen your know-how and get additional competence to solve your daily OPC tasks.

Content:

• 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

Execution:
The seminar will be held in small classes of no more than 6 people (up to 8 people if there is great demand).

Services:
The price includes the training, course hand-outs, a certificate, refreshments during breaks and lunch.