Using the OPC standard for real-time process monitoring and control

IEEE Software

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 54-59

  Liu, Jun ^a   Lim, Khiang Wee ^b   Ho, Weng Khuen ^c   Tan, Kay Chen ^c   Tay, Arthur ^c   Srinivasan, Rajagopalan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

^b Agency for Science   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROCESS CONTROL; STANDARDS;

OBJECT LINKING AND EMBEDDING FOR PROCESS CONTROL (OPC); OPEN NONPROPRIETARY PLUG-AND-PLAY SYSTEM (ONPS);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 28244463847     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2005.168     Document Type: Article

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