Optimizing OPC Communications
with Sophisticated OPC Middleware Products

The standardization of communication tasks with OPC goes hand-in-hand with significant cost savings for manufacturers and plant operators. This mature communication standard makes it easy to select best-in-class products because it is not based on proprietary solutions. In addition, OPC technology inherently promotes the design of horizontally or vertically integration concepts.

This white paper is discussing techniques to effectively complement the OPC standard with OPC middleware products that help to alleviate most problems a user might face. The paper exemplifies how to utilize this intelligent set of OPC middleware products to simplify the commissioning and operation of OPC clients and servers, significantly improve the data throughput of your OPC interfaces, and, at the same time, ensure reliable and robust OPC communication links.