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Abstract
With the advent of smart field devices in industrial
automation, information about these field devices can
permeate throughout the plant and business management.
With different protocols (such as CIP, Profinet) to
connect the fieldbus protocol such as Devicenet, ControlNet,
Profibus to the Internet, there is no common platform
to develop applications for these fieldbus protocols.
The OPC technology provides uniform interfaces for
industrial applications to communicate with different
field bus protocols. The interface between OPC and MES/Enterprise
application needs to be addressed to bridge the gap
between real time shop floor data to the enterprise
data. Different solutions to address the above-mentioned
needs are discussed in this paper. Wipro’s XML2OPC
solution for remote monitoring and control is also explained.
Authors
Shamdutt Kamble,
Venkateswara Rao M,
Shailendra Jain
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