Keynote and Vision Session

 

9:00am 10:00am      Welcome and Keynote (keynote, demo)

Joe Long, Product Unit Manager, XML Enterprise Services, Microsoft

-         Microsofts commitment to industrial automation and how Indigo and other Microsoft technologies will enable the next generation of interoperable web services based industrial automation standards.

-         A demonstration of a UA client and server implemented with Indigo.

 

10:00am 10:45am    UA Vision (vision, end-user perspective)

Tom Burke Executive Director, OPC Foundation and

Rashesh Mody OPC Foundation Chief Architect, Invensys/Wonderware

-         Where OPC today has succeeded and what problems still need to be solved.

-         How UA and web services provide the basis for interoperability on the factory floor, into the enterprise and across the internet.

-         The technical and business problems that UA solves.

-         What is the OPC Foundation is doing to ensure that existing investments in OPC technology can be preserved as UA systems are deployed

 

Architecture Session

 

11:00am - 12:00pm     Introduction to the UA Architecture (slides)

Lee Neitzel Emerson Process Management and

Dave Hardin Invensys Process Systems

-         How the concepts from existing OPC specifications have been unified into a cohesive, flexible framework.

-         An introduction to the major features of UA.

-         A description of the fundamental components of the UA framework.

-         How UA leverages the benefits of Web Services and a Service Oriented Architecture.

                               

1:00pm - 2:30pm        Introduction to Indigo: Why, What, How? (slides)

                                    Craig McMurtry - Microsoft

-         What are software services and why do they solve problems that current distributed technologies cannot solve.

-         How web services standards provide interoperability between applications and enterprises.

-         The key elements of the Indigo architecture and how they simplify the development of interoperable software services.

-         An introduction to the Indigo architecture and Microsofts approach to implementing web services.

-         The separation between the application, the message encoding and the message transport layers.

-         A walkthrough of how to develop applications with Indigo and how it improves on the existing tools.

 

Reliability Session

 

2:30pm 3:15pm         UA: Designated for Robustness and Reliability (slides)

Jim Luth Iconics

-         What the key concerns are related to robustness and reliability in industrial automation applications today.

-         Why asynchronous message based services are inherently more reliable than distributed object technologies.

-         How UA allows a continuous stream of sampled or exception based data to be delivered reliably across a network with unpredictable latencies.

-         The UA mechanisms used to recover lost data when network communication is interrupted.

 

3:30pm 4:15pm        Developing Redundant Applications with UA (slides)

                                    Eric Murphy Matrikon

-         Why redundant client and server applications are important in industrial automation.

-         How application redundancy is built into UA.

-         A design walkthrough for example redundant client and server applications.

 

4:15pm 5:00pm         UA, Web Services and Performance (slides)

                                    Randy Armstrong OPC Foundation

-         The performance concerns and issues that exist with web services.

-         The strategies that UA uses to ensure that it can meet the performance requirements of industrial automation users.

-         How the UA binary encoding and SOAP attachments address performance issues in an interoperable way.

Security Session

 

9:00am - 9:45am        UA and Web Services Security (slides)

Randy Armstrong - OPC Foundation

-         The security issues in industrial automation that need to be addressed.

-         What web service security standards exist, how do they relate to each other and how does UA make use of them.

-         The mandatory security features in UA that will ensure a minimum level of interoperability without turning off security.

-         How UA applications can be configured to operate in different enterprises with different security requirements.

             

9:45am 10:30am      Indigo: Secure, Reliable, Transacted Messaging (slides)

Craig McMurtry- Microsoft

-       The different transport protocols supported by Indigo and the features and capabilities of each.

-        The security and reliability infrastructure in Indigo and how it can be layered on top of different transport protocols.

-         A walkthrough of code which illustrates how to make use of the different security and reliability features of Indigo.

 

   Implementation, Migration and Deployment Session

 

  10:45am 11:15am     Implementing UA Web Services with Indigo (slides)

                                      Jean-Yves Martineau Cactus

-         An overview of the software components developed for the keynote demonstration.

-         The steps followed to implement UA with Indigo.

-         How existing OPC client and server applications were integrated with the Indigo components.

 

   11:15am - 12:30pm     UA Implementation Strategies (slides)

                                       Randy Armstrong OPC Foundation

-         What the OPC Foundation is doing to ensure that OPC users can leverage off their existing COM-OPC applications while they migrate to UA.

-       The UA Programmers API and how it provides application programmers with an interface that is independent of the transport protocol.

-        The architecture of the UA SDK being jointly developed by OPC Foundation and several members.

-       The COM client and server wrapper applications and how they will allow existing OPC applications to interoperate with UA applications.

 

    1:30pm 2:00pm         UA Certification Testing (slides)

Paul Hunkar - ABB and Jeff Harding - ABB

-         Why certification testing is valuable to end users and suppliers.

-         UA profiles and how they will be used to define sub-sets of UA functionality for testing and certification.

-        The plans for 3^rd party test facilities for UA and existing OPC specifications.

-         How OPC users can determine if the OPC products that have been certified.

-         How UA applications will be able to determine if the other UA applications have been certification tested.

 

Integration Session

 

   2:00pm 2:45pm       The UA Data Model and Type System (slides)

                                      Lee Neitzel Emerson Process Systems

-         The key concepts in the UA data model and type system including objects, variables, notifiers and commands.

-        How references can be used to build a full-mesh data model with views that expose simple hierarchical models for use by less sophisticated clients.

-         What the difference between an object type and a data type is and why each is important in UA.

-         How data models developed by other standards bodies, such as EDDL, SP95 and MIMOSA, can be exposed via UA without special translations or conversions.

 

    2:45pm 3:15pm        UA and B2MML (slides)

Dave Emerson - Yokogawa Electric Corporation

-        An introduction to ISA-95 and B2MML as tools for integrating enterprise systems and control systems.

-         The relationship between B2MML and UA.

-         Using UA for MES data exchange.  

                             

   3:30pm 4:15pm         Beyond Web Services (slides)

                                       Seth Grossman - Microsoft

-        Applications for UA that go beyond the HMI/SCADA applications that exist today.

-         Tools that developers can use to create applications, targeted at knowledge workers, that expose the rich data contained within UA messages.

-         How UA is the vehicle to seamlessly integrate the factory floor into the enterprise.