Realization And Application Of OPC Technology

OPC technology specification is a new industry control standard established by OPC foundation . It provides an unitive data-accessing software and hardware interface standard which has been accepted and supported by more and more software and hardware manufacturers and has became an acknowledged standard in industry control field. Electric Configuration Software is an automatization system used in electric power systems .It provides OPC standard Interfaces and can easily exchange data with third party devices.This paper first introduces background, content and advantages of OPC specification, and then expatiates the realizations of OPC server and OPC client and OPC server.This paper designs an OPC server which can produce a sine wave as the application of the OPC Server and introduces the application in blast furnace system in hefei steelworks.At last, this paper introduces real time database of Configuration Software and the connection between OPC server and the real time database.