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David Kraus, Sr. Automation Engineer at [http://www.isquaredt.com Integrated Industrial Technologies, Inc.], will be giving a presentation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPC_Unified_Architecture OPC-UA] and its implementation by [http://www.inductiveautomation.com/products/ignition Ignition] from [http://www.inductiveautomation.com/ Inductive Automation].
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OPC-UA expands into the title Object Linking and Embedded (OLE) for Process Control Unified Architecture.  OPC is an open standard for data exchange originally developed by Microsoft and maintained by the OPC Foundation.  It is based the aging OLE, COM, and DCOM technologies.  The recent OPC-UA specification provides means to develop cross-platform implementations of OPC.
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While OPC-UA and Ignition are not open source, they are cross-platform and supported on Linux and Microsoft Windows alike.
  
 
== Meeting Minutes ==
 
== Meeting Minutes ==

Revision as of 22:58, 10 June 2010

WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, June 12th, 2010, starting at 11am at the Wilkins School Community Center.

Schedule for the Day

10:30am - Doors open, set up
11:00am - Business Meeting starts
11:30am - Featured Presentation
12:30pm - Meeting ends, everyone out. We are likely to go to D's 6pack or Square Cafe for lunch.

Speaker/Presentation

David Kraus, Sr. Automation Engineer at Integrated Industrial Technologies, Inc., will be giving a presentation on OPC-UA and its implementation by Ignition from Inductive Automation.

OPC-UA expands into the title Object Linking and Embedded (OLE) for Process Control Unified Architecture. OPC is an open standard for data exchange originally developed by Microsoft and maintained by the OPC Foundation. It is based the aging OLE, COM, and DCOM technologies. The recent OPC-UA specification provides means to develop cross-platform implementations of OPC.

While OPC-UA and Ignition are not open source, they are cross-platform and supported on Linux and Microsoft Windows alike.

Meeting Minutes

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