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Using CX-Supervisor with OPC Servers SECTION 17 Using CX-Supervisor as an OPC
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17-1-3-5 Who should care about OPC?
You should care about OPC if your applications are largely run in personal
computers and you are involved with solving plant integration problems. As a
critical mass of servers and OPC-enabled applications become available,
OPC is likely to become an important part of your plant integration tool set.
The OPC specification promises a future without proprietary interfaces that will
greatly benefit both manufacturing customers and automation suppliers.
17-1-3-6 How is OPC going to improve my bottom line?
From a business perspective, the use of OPC for connectivity promises to
reduce the cost of automation, control, and integration solutions. By using
OPC compliant products, significant savings can be achieved through shorter
development efforts and a wide choice of vendor hardware and software
solutions. For every automation system installed today, a significant amount of
time and money is spent ensuring that the system can share information with
other systems and devices. OPC will save the customer time and money by
eliminating a lot of the system integration problems caused by lack of open
standards that exist between automation devices, systems, and manufacturing
software. After an automation system is installed, OPC will not improve
business bottom line directly; however, OPC will provide a common method to
access real-time information. The real key to improving the bottom line is to
distribute and use the information throughout the business' value chain.
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Using CX-Supervisor with OPC Servers
The exact procedure for connecting CX-Supervisor to Third Party OPC
Servers will depend on the server being used. Consult your server
documentation for full details. However, the following is a basic overview:
1, 2, 3…
Start the OPC Server and configure any settings and workspace items as
described in the vendor's manual.
1. Start CX-Supervisor and open your application.
2. Open the
Point Editor
by selecting the
Point Editor
option from the
Utilities
menu or by clicking the
button.
3. In the Point Editor dialog box click the
button in the toolbar to open the
Add Point dialog box.
4. In the Add Point dialog box move to the I/O Type: options and select the
Input, Output or Input / Output option as appropriate. Note that the I/O
Update Rate: and I/O Attributes: options and displayed.
5. In the I/O Attributes: options select OPC/Other and click the Setup button.
This will open the Communications Control Attributes dialog box.
6. In the Communications Control Attributes dialog box enter the appropriate
parameters as follows:
Communications Control Attributes
Summary of Contents for CX-Supervisor
Page 1: ...CX Supervisor Software Cat No W10E EN 01 User Manual Software Release 3 1...
Page 3: ...Copyright Notice 2...
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Page 27: ...Tip of the Day SECTION 1 Graphics Editor 26...
Page 35: ...CX Supervisor Preferences SECTION 2 Pages 34...
Page 79: ...Responding to Events SECTION 5 ActiveX Objects 78...
Page 115: ...Printing the Graphics Library SECTION 7 Graphics Library 114...
Page 181: ...Data Logging SECTION 11 Data Logging 180...
Page 201: ...Examples SECTION 12 Databases 200...
Page 243: ...Performance Monitor SECTION 16 Application Analysis Performance Monitor 242...
Page 253: ...Using with Omron s CX Server OPC SECTION 17 Using CX Supervisor as an OPC Cli 252...
Page 259: ...Creating a CX Supervisor Client application SECTION 18 Connecting to a remote CX 258...
Page 263: ...Adding a Point Linked to a Parameter SECTION 19 Connecting to Omron Industrial 262...
Page 271: ...Data Logging SECTION 20 Best Practices 270...
Page 275: ...Configuring a Server PC running Windows NT or 2000 Appendix A Configuring a PC 274...
Page 277: ...Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions 276...
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