The OPC Foundation has released its next generation specification for software application interoperability – The Unified Architecture (UA). At this event you will learn directly from the architects and developers of UA.

About OPC’s Unified Architecture

The OPC Foundation Unified Architecture defines secure reliable interoperability for exchanging data and information from the factory floor to the enterprise. The open, cross platform, service oriented architecture builds on and unifies the existing, successfully adopted OPC Foundation interfaces.

UA was developed collaboratively by over thirty OPC vendors. The collaboration also included many other standards consortia that have contributed to the development and have committed to producing UA companion specifications. These companion specifications will describe the standard way to expose and exchange the data and information models defined by these other organizations, utilizing UA as the interoperable transport mechanism.

About the conference

The OPC Unified Architecture DevCon 2007, provides a jumpstart for the leading technologists to quickly become proficient with the OPC Unified Architecture.

You will have the opportunity to understand the business model (the who what when where and why of the OPC Unified Architecture), an overview of all the components and specifications, an overview of all the technology used to deploy OPC Unified Architecture products and solutions, plus a detailed dive down into the core of the Unified Architecture and all the corresponding technology that is available for vendors to truly build best-of-breed OPC Unified Architecture products and solutions.
 

Please join your OPC Foundation hosts at this ground breaking event. Presentations will be given in English language only.

Attendees Will Learn ...

Concepts

• How UA embraces the latest internet technologies (XML, Web Services …) to provide true platform independence.

• How UA seamlessly combines the functionality of all of the existing OPC interfaces.

• How UA will provide plug-n-play interoperability at higher levels of the enterprise (MES, ERP …).

• How UA will become the preferred method to exchange data through collaborative efforts with other standards organizations (ISA, Fieldbus Foundation,HART Communication Foundation, PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation, EDDL, …).

• How UA will solve real end-user application problems.

Architecture

• What an information model is and why UA is an information modeler’s dream.
• How to expose any data from any system “as-is” without the need to transform it into some other OPC-defined format.
• How to use UA in automation systems represented by components using device description technology (EDDL)
• Why UA provides multiple transports and encodings to balance the need for speed and compatibility.
• How UA applies the latest state-of-the-art Web Services security standards.
• How UA is architected for robustness, reliability and redundancy.
• How end-users can “UA-enable” any existing OPC application.
• How OPC vendors can migrate existing OPC products to UA.
• Why OPC provides a high level programmer’s API in multiple languages to its members.

Implementation

• How to implement UA applications on a Microsoft .NET platform using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation, MS codename Indigo).
• How to implement UA applications using the JAVA API.
• How the communications stack, programmers API and the reference implementation all fit together and how to choose the right entry point for your UA development.

• Why OPC provides portable ‘C’ code for easy UA implementations in embedded devices.
• How UA “Profiles” allow developers to pick and choose the functionality they need.
• How integrating UA into your application is easier than integrating the previous OPC interfaces.

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