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Our OPC Suite for your Success OPC Servers and Clients OPC – Openness, Productivity For secure and efficient communication and Collaboration OPC Easy Connect Suite OPC is a worldwide standard for the exchange of data and information between soft- Save valuable time when commissioning ware components. OPC clients and servers OPC simplifies your automation tasks, enables you to access data quickly and securely, and standardizes OPC Toolkits the operation of communication software. Secure fast time-to-market

From Data Access to Unified Architecture – OPC Workshops Benefit from more than Your easy access to OPC technology 12 Years of OPC Expertise! Softing recognized the OPC Services significance of OPC for indus- Focus on your core expertise trial automation early on. As a member of the European With OPC Technology from Softing, Steering Committee and the you're always up-to-date! UA Early Adopter Group of the OPC Foundation, Softing actively contributes to the success of OPC. Offering a wide range of products and services, Softing is one of the market leaders in OPC technology.

"Having compatible OPC clients and servers is especially important for us. Softing's OPC toolkits enabled us to familiarize ourselves with OPC technology quickly and reliably.” Dr.-Ing. Sabine Daeche, Software Development, Bosch Sicherheitssysteme GmbH OPC Server

Are you looking for efficient Benefits for you and convenient Access to your Process Data? Full OPC compliance for high reliability and security Install and configure your Softing Significant time and cost savings; installation takes just one minute OPC server in just a few minutes. Reliable data exchange through continual connection monitoring Softing's OPC servers enable you Highest level of user comfort due to automatic device recognition to easily access your automation and import/export of configuration data devices via Ethernet, PROFIBUS, Supports all OPC clients incl. Cimplicity, Citect, Genesis, iFix, InTouch, Modbus, CANopen etc.. Softing's RSView, WinCC OPC implementation is consistent "Best-in-class" performance, e.g., S7/S5 OPC server with the latest state-of-the-art tech- Web-based diagnosis and mini-visualization through an integrated nologies available on the market. Web server The development effort focused on OPC client, OPC ActiveX controls, Excel, HTML and Visual Basic maximizing the data throughput examples included in package while at the same time minimizing Free demo version the required system resources for optimal performance.

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S7/S5 OPC Server Fast and convenient data access to Siemens’ S7/S5 PLC-family Up to 256 simultaneous PLC connections

PROFIBUS OPC Server Convenient access to DP and PA devices Automatic device recognition

Modbus/TCP OPC Server Access to registers and coils of any Modbus device Can be used flexibly as a "Since we've been using Softing's Modbus client or server S7 OPC server in our projects, we haven't had any stability problems. CANopen OPC Server The migration to Softing was fast PDO and SDO data exchange and easy." Kurt Gleichweit, Intratec – HPG Supports node guarding Informationstechnologie GmbH

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Visualize Process Data in Visual Basic or Excel in just two Minutes – with the OPC Toolbox ActiveX. Import your process data to Excel, Visual Basic, Inter- net Explorer or any other ActiveX-enabled application in next to no time - without requiring any programming! No runtime license fees! It doesn't get any better than that! If you're looking for an OPC Interface, we have the Benefits for you right Toolkit for you! Successfully deployed by more than Choose your OPC toolkit from more than 20 different 1,000 international companies products according to your development environ- Several thousand OPC products ment, programming language, OPC specification and with "OPC Toolbox inside” target platform. Used all over Europe, the United States, Asia, Australia and Africa Develop your own "The OPC Toolbox C++ from Full OPC compliance OPC Client or Server Softing in our Freelance 2000 Regularly tested at interoperability at low Cost! product saved us an enormous workshops of the OPC Foundation The OPC Toolbox contains the amount of development and Comfortable wizard to get you right tool for your specific testing time - thanks to the started quickly requirements (including source powerful object management Context-sensitive online help code) for different program- functionalities, the easy inte- integrated into Microsoft ming languages (C++, C# etc.) gration into existing software Developer Studio and operating systems (Win- and the outstanding support Free demo version dows, WinCE, Linux etc.). Tools provided by Softing." can be used as stand-alone Michael Gienke, Development components or as integrated Manager MSR Software, ABB OPC interfaces. And: There are no runtime licenses!

If you're looking for an Toolkit types OPC Specification OPC Server, we have the DA11 DA21 DA31 AE2 XML-DA SEC3 UA4 right Solution for you! Toolbox (C++, .NET) Server d We can realize your OPC Client d server in a flash – Toolbox ActiveX Client nmm nn for a competitive price. 1 Data Access, 2 Alarms and Events, 3 Security, 4 Unified Architecture available d under development OPC Easy Connect Suite

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If your answer to any of these questions is yes, the A&D Best Product awarded OPC Easy Connect Suite from Softing is The OPC Tunnel enables exactly what you need! OPC Storage secure and easy Intelligent data storage OPC communication OPC Easy Connect Suite – for communication between across networks Making OPC Connectivity easy OPC clients. and firewall boundaries OPC Connector Tools simplify the commissioning and opera- "Using Softing's OPC OPC Bridge tion of OPC clients and servers, Storage for the testing OPC gateway between any help you save both time and and commissioning of kind of Data Access or XML-DA money, and optimize the per- our AGV OPC clients implementations. formance of your OPC inter- enabled us to achieve faces. The OPC Connector Tools significant cost savings." OPC Optimizer family currently comprises the Franz Schröder, Optimizes access of Software Development, following products. multiple OPC clients to a Swisslog Telelift GmbH single OPC server.

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