[hemmerling] Industrial Data & Industrial Data Exchange

Related pages:

• Fieldbuses and Automation Networks.
• Manufacturing Execution Systems ( MES ) 2/5 - Software Systems.
• Manufacturing Execution Systems ( MES ) 3/5 - Norms & Design.

• EN.Wikipedia "General Packet Radio Service", DE.Wikipedia "General Packet Radio Service".
• EN.Wikipedia "Email", DE.Wikipedia "E-Mail".
• EN.Wikipedia "Short Message Service", DE.Wikipedia "Short Message Service".
• EN.Wikipedia "Simple Network Management Protocol", DE.Wikipedia "Simple Network Management Protocol".

• EN.Wikipedia "Active Directory", DE.Wikipedia "Active Directory".
• EN.Wikipedia "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol", DE.Wikipedia "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol".

• DE.Wikipedia "Elektronischer Datenaustausch".
• PROZEUS - PROZESSEundSTANDARDS, eBusiness Praxis für den Mittelstand.
  • PROZEUS - IT-Dienstleisterpool - List of eBusiness standards .

• EUROMAP 63.
  • EUROMAP 63 - Data Exchange Interface ( PDF ).

• EN.Wikipedia "FTAM", DE.Wikipedia "File Transfer and Access Management".

• EN.Wikipedia "ISO 10303", DE.Wikipedia "Standard for the exchange of product model data" ( STEP ).

• International Organization of Standardization "ISO 15531-44:2010. Industrial automation systems and integration -- Industrial manufacturing management data -- Part 44: Information modelling for shop floor data acquisition".

• ISO.
  • International Organization of Standardization "ISO 20242-1:2005. Industrial automation systems and integration -- Service interface for testing applications -- Part 1: Overview".
  • International Organization of Standardization "ISO 20242-2:2010. Industrial automation systems and integration -- Service interface for testing applications -- Part 2: Resource management service interface".
  • International Organization of Standardization "ISO 20242-3:2011. Industrial automation systems and integration -- Service interface for testing applications -- Part 3: Virtual device service interface".
  • International Organization of Standardization "ISO 20242-4:2011. Industrial automation systems and integration -- Service interface for testing applications -- Part 4: Device capability profile template".
• Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems ( ASAM e. V. ).
• Dr.–Ing. Robert Patzke "ASAM–GDI Generic Device Interface".
  • Wiki ASAM-GDI Wiki.
• EN.Wikipedia "Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems", DE.Wikipedia "Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems".

• See Radio-Frequency Identification ( RFID ).

• EN.Wikipedia "Remote procedure call", DE.Wikipedia "Remote Procedure Call".

• See Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) / "Produktionsplanung und Steuerung" ( PPS ).

• EN.Wikipedia "Andon", DE.Wikipedia "Andon (manufacturing)".
• Loosely related: Digital Signage.

• EN.Wikipedia "Automated optical inspection", DE.Wikipedia "Automatische optische Inspektion" ( AOI ).
• EN.Wikipedia "Automatic test equipment", DE.Wikipedia "Automatic Test Equipment" ( ATE ).

• Foxboro.
  • Foxboro Data format without text ( = CSV data format ).
  • Foxboro Data format with text ( = CSV data format ).

• Janitza electronics GmbH. Optional communications by Modbus TCP, via an OPC server with Modbus TCP interface → see Fieldbuses and Automation Networks.
  • Wiki Janitza Dashboard.

• Microsoft ActiveSync - for communikation with mobile computers.
  • EN.Wikipedia "ActiveSync", DE.Wikipedia "ActiveSync".
  • EN.Wikipedia "OpenSync (software)", DE.Wikipedia "OpenSync".
• INTERMEC TECHNOLOGIES Gmbh.
  • INTERMEC TECHNOLOGIES Gmbh "Handheld-Computer".
    • INTERMEC TECHNOLOGIES Gmbh "Robuste Mobilcomputer - Die neue CK3-Serie".

• Intermec Technologies Corporation.
  • Intermec Technologies Corporation "CK3B Mobile Computer".
• ProLogis Automatisierung und Identifikation GmbH - “Kennzeichnen, Identifizieren, Automatisieren. Etikettendrucker, Scanner, Mobile Datenerfassung”.
• Zebra Technologies Corporation "105SL Industrial Printers".

• “Scale Listener” - instrumentation device for scales.

• It is important that a MES software stores data with timestamps in UTC and not in local time. The problem are daylight savings applied to local time in many countries, including EU: In Spring, you have a gap of one our in your datastream, in Autumn you loose data of 1 hour ( as it is not possible for most MES systems, to store 2 datasets with the same timestamp ).

• EN.Wikipedia "Web service", DE.Wikipedia "Webservice".

• DNP Users Group.

• EN.Wikipedia "IEC 60870-6", DE.Wikipedia "IEC 60870".

• See Fieldbuses and Automation Networks.

• See Fieldbuses and Automation Networks.

Inspired by: Cimetrix, Rob Schreck "Implementing GEM and PV2 – what you should know", 2012-05-14.

• OPC Foundation.
• OPC Foundation Europe.

• Integration Objects.
  • The free Integration Objects "OPC Server Simulators" for Windows.
• The OpenSource Sourceforge "openOPC", Sourceforge "openOPC" - “A free, open source OPC (OLE for Process Control) toolkit”.
• Light OPC - “The Free OPC Server Toolkit”.
• Google Code "frl" - “FatRat Library is a toolkit for speed up development OPC servers on C++”.
• Softing AG.
  • Softing AG "OPC-Client-Entwicklung".
  • ”Softing AG "OPC Demo Client and OPC Demo Server"” (installer download ).
• The commercial CommServer.
  • CommServer - DownloadCenter - free “OPC Viewer” for Windows.

• Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH.
  • James Cook University "Engineering Subjects - EE4600:03 Automatic Control 3".
    • James Cook University - Download Directoy of Hilscher's "OPC Explorer".
• Integration Objects.
  • The free Integration Objects "OPC DA Explorer" for Windows.
  • The free Integration Objects "OPC AE Explorer".
• The free Kassl GmbH "dOPC Explorer" for Windows.
• The free “Kepware OPC Quick Client”, part of the commercial KEPServerEX package. Free download.
• The free MatrikonOPC Explorer - “A free utility used to view OPC server items and test OPC network connections”.
• The free PowerOPC "OPC Data Access Client".
• Archive.org "Progea Srl.: MMI OPC - The easiest way to human interface".
  • The free Archive.org "Progea Srl. - OPC Explorer" for Windows. Please tell me if you know a download offer for this free software!

1. Book Dieter Barelmann, Christof Bürger, Steffen Himstedt: "OPC in der Praxis".
2. Book Thomas Bettermann: "Anwendung von Microsoft Softwarestandards in der Automatisierungstechnik. OPC, OLE und ActiveX".
3. The free PDF document M. Daubner; V. Krieger: "Betriebsmessdatenvisualisierung und -erfassung mit OPAL (OPC-Panel Livegraph)" ( PDF ).
4. Jürgen Lange.
   • Book Jürgen Lange, Frank Iwanitz: "OPC: Von Data Access bis Unified Architecture" = current 4.th edition.
   • Book Jürgen Lange, Frank Iwanitz: "OPC: Grundlagen, Implementierung und Anwendung" = legacy 3.th edition.
   • Book Jürgen Lange, Frank Iwanitz: "OLE for Process Control: Grundlagen, Implementierung und Anwendung" = legacy 1.st edition.
5. Series of publiciations “Praxis Profiline”.
   • Archive.org "Praxis Profiline".
   • Vogel Buchverlag "Praxis Profiline".
   • Book Praxis Profiline, Tom Burke: "OPC: Das bietet ein offener Standard für die Automatisierung, Volume D/E" /Vogel Vogel Buchverlag "Praxis Profiline - OPC. Der Standard für die Automatisierung - Volume D/E", ISBN 382591917X, 2003 → Available in FHH, TIB.
   • Book “OPC. Der Weg zur globalen Interoperabilität. Der Standard für die Automatisierung, Volume D/E”, 2004 → Available in TIB.

1. Book Jürgen Lange, Frank Iwanitz: "OLE for Process Control: Fundamentals, Implementation, and Application".
2. Book Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner, Matthias Damm: "OPC Unified Architecture".

• Experts told me about a weakness of OPC servers: All the data an OPC server gets is provided / pushed to process visualisation systems. It is one of the major tasks of a process visualisation system, to filter the incoming information ( by checking the OPC tags ), to reduce the data to an amout
  1. which can be handled by the process visualisation display.
  2. which is useful to display to the operators.
• Communication protocols used with OPC.
  • Modbus Organization "Modbus".
    • DE.Wikipedia "Modbus", DE.Wikipedia "Modbus" #.
• ControlGlobal.com "Voices: OPC Connection".
• CommServer.
  • CommServer - "OPC guide".
  • CommServer - "OPC Unified Architecture e-book".
• OPC Tutorials at MatrikonOPC.com.
• OPC Unified Architecture e-book.
• Softing - “Your connection to excellence”.
  • Softing "Zehn Jahre OPC: Von Data Access zu Unified Architecture" (PDF).
• OPC Programmers' Connection - OLE for Process Control - “An independent site dedicated to the needs of the software/solutions developer working with OPC (formerly OLE for Process Control)”.
  • OPC Programmers' Connection - "Free OPC Software" #.
• Wikipedia.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Distributed Component Object Model", DE.Wikipedia "Distributed Component Object Model".
  • EN.Wikipedia "Object Linking and Embedding", DE.Wikipedia "Object Linking and Embedding".
  • EN.Wikipedia "OLE for process control", EN.Wikipedia "OPC Foundation", DE.Wikipedia "OLE for Process Control".

• SEMI - “The global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the micro- and nano-electronics industries”.
  • SEMI International Standards.
    • SEMI International Standards - Downloads - “Browse 'Equipment Automation Software'”.

• SEMI Interface A Standards ( E120, E125, E132, E134 ).
• EDA does not replace the SEMI SECS/GEM standards or the SEMI GEM 300 standards, since EDA does not provide any features for equipment control or configuration. Instead, equipment suppliers support EDA in addition to other required interfaces.

• SEMI SECS/GEM standards ( E4, E5, E30, and E37 ).
• SEMI GEM 300 standards ( E39, E40, E87, E90, E94, E116, E148, and E157 ).
• The Generic Equipment Model ( GEM ) defines a standard implementation of SECS-II for all semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The GEM standard defines a common set of equipment behavior and communications capabilities that provide the functionality and flexibility to support the manufacturing automation programs of semiconductor device manufacturers.

• CodeForge.com. Free Open Source Codes Forge and Sharing "SECS I, SECS II agreement communication source code" → “Download Source Codes: semi.zip”.

• Cimetrix.
  • Cimetrix "SEMI Interface A Standards Overview" - “Mapping Interface A/EDA to SECS/GEM” #.
  • Cimetrix "SECS-II - SEMI Equipment Communications Standard 2".
  • Cimetrix "SECS/GEM SEMI Standards Overview".
  • Blog Cimetrix SEMI Standards Blog - “SEMI Standards Implementation, Software, & Discussion”.
• Integrated Measurement Association (IMA).
  • |Integrated Measurement Association (IMA) - Standards.
    • Integrated Measurement Association (IMA), James Moyne "Glossary of SEMI Standards: Current and Pending".
• The PEER Group Inc.
  • The PEER Group Inc. "SDR" - “Provides high-technology factories and their equipment suppliers with the connectivity solution required to implement the well established SEMI equipment communication standard (SECS). SDR is fully compliant with current releases of SEMI standards E4 (SECS I), E5 (SECS II) and E37 (HSMS) and is in wide use throughout the semiconductor industry and is considered the standard that other SECS implementations are measured against.”.
  • The PEER Group Inc. "GEM4Tools" - “SECS/GEM is the communications standard for high-technology equipment. OPC is the communications standard for PLC-based equipment. PEER Group brings SECS/GEM and OPC together to deliver fast and easy factory communications for semiconductor, solar, MEMs, LED and other high-technology manufacturing equipment”.
  • The PEER Group Inc. "SECS4Hosts" - “The SECS/GEM protocol is complicated compared with PLC-based factory communications. With SECS4Hosts, you can simplify the development of a host-side SECS or SECS/GEM driver. SECS4Hosts is all about speed. It's simply the fastest way to give your Windows host applications the ability to communicate with any SECS-compliant equipment”.
• EN.Wikipedia "SECS-II" - “The protocol is maintained by the SEMI organization, from which copies of the SEMI E5 standard may be obtained for a fee”.
• Book Richard Zurawski "Integration Technologies for Industrial Automated Systems (Industrial Information Technology)" - Part 4, section 4.5 “SEMI”.

• The data file output format of SIEMENS Gebäudemanagementsystem SICLIMAT X can be one of the data sources of a MES system.

• Matrikon Inc. "Learn OPC in 5 Easy Steps. Interactive tutorials that will make you an OPC Expert".

• ASAM-GDI Forum. Informationsaustausch zum Standard und seiner Anwendung.