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What is OPC in 2010? It is all about the tag
OPC Is Three Letters That Are a lot of Things to a lot of Different People, but What It Really Boils Down to Is Moving Data and the Tag

Computers in a Nutshell
Industrial PCs Can Take Almost Any Form These Days, but Many Users Still Need Protected and Enclosed Hard Drives, Screens, Keyboards and Other Interfaces in Increasingly Harsh and Varied Settings

Real Time for Maintenance Savings
Reduce Costs with CBM and OPC Real-Time Data

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OSIsoft High Availability Platform
Author: OSIsoft
Posted: 04/24/2009
Customers generally say the PI System is one of the most reliable components of their operations software infrastructure. They also say that the longer they have PI, the more problems they discover that can be solved using it. The more they use it, the more important it becomes to their operations strategy. Finally, the more important it becomes, the greater is their concern about the risk that something might happen to preclude access to the data or, worse, to prevent data from being collected for some period of time.

Benefits of State Based Control
Author: David Huffman, ABB Inc.
Posted: 03/23/2009
State Based Control is a plant automation control design based on the principle that all process facilities operate in recognized, definable Process States that represent a variety of normal and abnormal conditions of the process. State Based Control, implemented with the latest developments in object-based technologies, delivers direct benefits to its adopters in a variety of Operational Excellence categories. It results in productivity increases, higher asset utilization of both people and process, automated responses and recovery for abnormal conditions and provides an environment for knowledge capture directly into the control design.

GE Fanuc’s Proficy Becomes Reality for Collaborative Process Automation
Author: GE Fanuc
Posted: 03/10/2008
It is a significant competitive advantage for an automation supplier to offer an open and collaborative production environment that embraces standards and can address the full scope of automation and control applications from process to discrete and motion applications. Download this white paper to learn more about collaborative process automation.

PACs for industrial control, the future of control
Author: National Instruments
Posted: 02/07/2007
As the technological differences between PC and PLC wane, a new class of controllers is emerging for engineers who require higher loop rates, advanced control algorithms, more analog capabilities, and better integration with the enterprise network. The Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) describes this new generation of industrial controllers that combines the functionality of a PLC and a PC.

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