OPC Easy Connect Suite - Making OPC connectivity easy
OPC Easy Connect is a family of OPC middleware products that help you save time and money. The OPC Easy Connect Suite eliminates the complications that frequently arise in OPC communication between remote computers. It also simplifies the commissioning and use of OPC clients and servers and optimizes the performance of your OPC interfaces.
OPC Easy Connect Suite comprise products which make communication between OPC clients products- possible, e.g. between DA and XML-DA products or between OPC clients
- easier by avoiding time-consuming DCOM configuration
- uniform by concentrating several OPC data sources into one OPC server
- more efficient through intelligent management when multiple OPC clients access the same data on an OPC server
All in one:
You only need one license! With the Easy Connect Basic License, you receive all OPC Easy Connect products: the OPC Tunnel, Bridge, Optimizer, Concentrator, Filter and Collector, as well as OPCtoDataBase and OPCtoFile (in development). You can combine the "filter", "concentrate", "optimize", "tunnel" and "save" functions in any way you like.
Simplify your OPC Connectivity!
The OPC Easy Connect Suite family currently comprises following products:
- OPC Storage - Emulating any type of OPC server, for client-client communication
- OPC Bridge - OPC gateway between any kind of DA or XML-DA implementations
- OPC Optimizer - Optimizing access of multiple OPC clients to one OPC server
- OPC Tunnel - Establishing OPC communication between networks within just a few minutes
- OPC Concentrator - Consolidating data from several OPC servers into a single OPC server
- OPC Filter - Restricts access to data on an OPC server and hides individual items
- OPC Collector - freely configurable client which collects OPC data from any DA or XML DA server
- OPCtoDataBase - saves OPC data in ODBC-enabled databases
"Using Softing's OPC Storage for the testing and commissioning of our AGV OPC clients enabled us to achieve significant cost savings."
Franz Schröder, Software Development, Swisslog Telelift GmbH, GermanyThe OPC Easy Connect Products
- are fully OPC-compliant
- No programming necessary
- Configuration takes just a few minutes
- have been developed based on the Softing OPC Toolbox
- can be used as an application, DLL or service
- Remote diagnosis and maintenance with Web browser via integrated Web server interface
- provide a Web server interface for the visualization of process data, status and diagnostic information with a Web browser
- are implemented as a component with OPC client and server interface
- Ideally suited to integration in existing solutions (OEM)