什么是OPC

The new tagline for 2011 is: 

The OPC Foundation - The Interoperability Standard for Industrial Automation & Other Related Domains

OPC基金会在2011年给自己确立的最新口号是---工业自动化和相关领域间的互操作标准。

下面是对OPC的一些认知描述。

1、OPC isall about Open Productivity & Connectivity

OPC的所有都是关于开放性、生产效率和连接性。

2、OPC is a series of standards specifications.

OPC是一系列的标准和规格。

3、Current and emerging OPC Specifications include:

当前和新兴的一些OPC规格包括：

1)OPC Data Access

The originals(OPC的起源功能)! Used to move real-time data from PLCs, DCSs, and other control devices to HMIs and other display clients. The Data Access 3 specification is now a Release Candidate. It leverages earlier versions while improving the browsing capabilities and incorporating XML-DA Schema.

OPC DA是OPC产生的原因。用以把PLC、DCS和其它控制设备的实时数据传输到HMI或其它显示设备上。推荐使用最新发表的DA3规格。在改进浏览功能和纳入XML-DA模式的同时，也平衡（不一定全部兼容？）了与之前版本的的关系。

2）OPC报警和事件

Provides alarm and event notifications on demand (in contrast to the continuous data flow of Data Access). These include process alarms, operator actions, informational messages, and tracking/auditing messages.

提供了需要的报警通知和事件通知（相比之下DA提供的是连续的数据流）。包括进程报警、操作员行为、情报信息、跟踪\审计信息等。

3）OPC Batch

Provides alarm and event notifications on demand (in contrast to the continuous data flow of Data Access). These include process alarms, operator actions, informational messages, and tracking/auditing messages.

这项规格把OPC哲学带到了批处理工作这样一个特殊的需求上。它为当前的工作条件与设备能力之间架起了桥梁。

关于Batch Control的网站：http://www.batchcontrol.com/index.shtml

4）OPC Data eXchange

This specification takes us from client/server to server-to-server with communication across Ethernet fieldbus networks. This provides multi-vendor interoperability! And, oh by the way, adds remote configuration, diagnostic and monitoring/management services.

此规格通过网络形式的以太网总线把我们从CS模式带到SS模式。它提供了多个数据提供者的互操作功能！并且，添加了远程配置、诊断和监视/管理的服务。

 

5）OPC Historical Data Access

Where OPC Data Access provides access to real-time, continually changing data, OPC Historical Data Access provides access to data already stored. From a simple serial data logging system to a complex SCADA system, historical archives can be retrieved in a uniform manner.

当OPC DA提供给我们对连续的实时的数据访问功能的时候，OPC HDA 提供给我们对已经保存的数据进行访问的功能。从一个简单的串行数据日志系统到复杂的SCADA系统，历史存档可以通过统一的方式进行查询。

6）OPC Security

All the OPC servers provide information that is valuable to the enterprise and if improperly updated, could have significant consequences to plant processes. OPC Security specifies how to control client access to these servers in order to protect this sensitive information and to guard against unauthorized modification of process parameters.

所有OPC服务器都像企业提供有价值的信息，但是如果进行了不正确的数据更新，可能会对生产过程产生严重的后果。OPC安全规范设法去控制客户端对服务器的访问，保护敏感信息，防范对进程参数的未授权的修改。

7）OPC XML-DA

Provides flexible, consistent rules and formats for exposing plant floor data using XML, leveraging the work done by Microsoft and others on  SOAP and Web Services.

提供灵活、一致的规则，用XML文件的格式把车间生产数据导出来，使用微软工具或者其它工具但基于SOAP和Web Services技术所进行的工作可以方便的利用这些数据。

8）OPC Complex Data

A companion specification to Data Access and XML-DA that allows servers to expose and describe more complicated data types such as binary structures and XML documents.

DA和XML-DA的伙伴标准，允许服务器公开和描述诸如二进制结构体和XML文档的更加复杂的数据类型。

9）OPC Commands

A Working Group has been formed to develop a new set of interfaces that allow OPC clients and servers to identify, send and monitor control commands which execute on a device.

这是一个工作组。用来开发一组新接口，从而允许OPC服务器和客户端可以确认、发送和监视某台设备正在运行的控制命令。

10）OPC Unified Architecher

A new set of specifications that are not based on Microsoft COM that will provide standards based cross-platform capability.

一个基于非COM技术的新的规则集，用以提供跨平台的能力。