"OPC - From Data Access to Unified Architecture” is a new book published by Softing AG company. This book provides a solid foundation of knowledge for suppliers and end users alike to truly understand OPC from the beginning all the way through the OPC Unified Architecture. One of the book co-authors is Mariusz Postół , CEO of CAS and representative of the OPC Foundation Europe in Poland.

This OPC book can be purchased through Softing AG website.

This is bugfix release. The main changes are listed below:

• Saving data in the database is fixed
• Displaying graphic blocks in transactions configuration is fixed

Download the latest version of DataPorter 2.00.06

See online help (http://www.commsvr.com/OPC-Help/Index.aspx)

This is bugfix release. The main changes are listed below:

• Buffered queues are fixed
• Some log messages and desriptions of paramteres are improved or fixed

See online help (http://www.commsvr.com/DataPorter/Index.aspx)

Download the latest version of DataPorter™ 2.00.04

The OPC Foundation – an organization whose mission is to ensure interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining of the OPC and OPC Unified Architecture open communication standards, has set up an European subsidiary, the OPC Europe.

OPC Europe President is Stefan Hoppe from Beckhoff ,Vice President - Tino Hildebrand from Siemens.

“I am very pleased to have been selected to lead such a prestigious group of companies in the marketing effort for OPC UA technology throughout Europe.” said Stefan Hoppe.

Representative of the OPC Europe in Poland is Mariusz Postół - CEO of CAS.

"CAS entered the world of the OPC Unified Architecture new standard in 2008. My task as a representative of the OPC Europe in Poland is to ensure that Polish engineers do not miss the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the OPC Unified Architecture, as groundbreaking changes occur once every 20 years. I hope that CAS will not be the only Polish corporate member of the OPC Foundation soon." said Mariusz Postół

OPC and OPC Unified Architecture enable the transmission of process data, data about alarms and events, historical data to devices of different manufacturers.

For more information about OPC Europe, please visit the OPC Foundation website at www.opceurope.org

The editorial board of Control Engineering Poland magazine granted the “2009 Product of the Year” awards. We are proud to announce, that OPC UA Address Space Model Designer, a product by CAS is the winner in the “User interfaces” category.

OPC UA Address Space Model Designer software has been praised by experienced industrial automation experts for innovation, user-friendliness, ease of use and possibilities of practical application. You can find more information (in Polish) on Control Engineering Poland website.

Download the latest version of OPC UA Address Space Model Designer 2.10.10

See online help (http://www.commsvr.com/UAModelDesigner/Index.aspx )

We have added a new service to our offer, i.e. Designing of the OPC Unified Architecture Information Models. This service is dedicated to all companies (vendors or end users) that are going to design a model from scratch or adapt the existing one.

This service is provided in the 3 basic steps:

• Information model requirement definition – An analysis of the customers’ needs and necessary documentation.
• Designing of the OPC UA information model from scratch or adaptation of the existing one.
• Information model approval. – The created model can be immediately exposed using the CommServerUA (which is for free after the model designing service has been purchased).
   

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The main changes and new functionalities are listed below:

• Synchronization with OPC Foundation SDK 1.01.308.0
• Some minor bugfixes and improvements.

See online help (http://www.commsvr.com/UAModelDesigner/Index.aspx )

Download the latest version of OPC UA Address Space Model Designer 2.10.10

A new group of products from CommServer software family - dedicated OPC UA servers:

• OPC Server for M-Bus See more…

• OPC UA Server for SAIA See more...

• OPC UA Server for Modbus See more...

• OPC UA Server for Control See more...

• OPC UA Server for ... – check it by yourself at www.commsvr.com
  

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We would like to invite you to read a white paper entitled: “Implementation of the OPC UA Information Model for Analyzers” written by Mariusz Postol (CAS), Voytek J. Janisz (ABB), Claude M Lafond (ABB) and Jim Luth (OPC Foundation) that has just been published by the OPC Foundation.

In this white paper selected aspects of the ADI model adaptation and implementation are discussed. The white paper is dedicated to supporting process architects and software developers in deployment of the ADI-aware solutions in a real production environment. Very general scope of the discussion makes the paper a case study that can be useful for the deployment of any kind of OPC UA product. The content of the article is a result of the experience gained by the authors during their work with the OPC Foundation ADI working group.

This paper is available without access restrictions from the OPC Foundation website.