罗克韦尔自动化开放工业标准和互连性用于提高控制系统信息整合

Rockwell Automation Commits to Open Connectivity and Industry Standards for Improved Control System Information Integration

罗克韦尔自动化开放工业标准和互连性用于提高控制系统信息整合

OPC Foundation leadership and Rockwell Software OPC Gateway help manufacturers improve plant-floor device connectivity and data sharing

OPC基金会的指导和罗克韦尔软件公司颁布的OPC Gateway帮助生产商提高工厂设备的连接性和数据共享

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 21, 2006 — Demonstrating its continued commitment to open standards and interoperability, Rockwell Automation today announced that Rockwell Software vice president Kevin Roach has been elected to the OPC Foundation Board of Directors. Roach is one of seven elected board members directing the technical, marketing and financial responsibilities for the OPC Foundation, a non-profit international standards organization dedicated to providing standards for interoperability in industrial automation.

密尔沃基2月21号讯—罗克韦尔自动化今天宣布罗克韦尔软件副总裁Kevin Roach被选为OPC基金会董事会成员，表明了其继续开放标准和互用性的承诺。Roach是OPC基金会七个负责技术、市场和金融的董事会成员之一。OPC基金会是一个非赢利国际标准组织，致力于为工业自动化提供互用性标准。

"Making informed business decisions requires manufacturers to share real-time information seamlessly between a multitude of devices and applications," said Roach. "Rockwell Automation is helping manufacturers achieve this by actively participating in the OPC Foundation and leveraging open standards within our products to enable better connectivity and data sharing." The company simultaneously announced the release of its OPC Gateway, a software application that increases the connectivity options for Rockwell Automation customers. The Gateway helps non-Rockwell Automation OPC clients, such as human-machine interface (HMI) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) software, to communicate bidirectionally with applications that use components of the Rockwell Software FactoryTalk platform in both distributed and redundant environments. This provides tight integration and helps manufacturers to build their applications using FactoryTalk services like security, diagnostics and auditing.

Roach指出：“作出英明的商业决策需要生产商在一个设备群和应用之间无缝地共享实时信息。罗克韦尔自动化正是通过积极参与OPC基金会以及调节我们产品的开放式标准实现更好的连接性和数据共享，帮助生产商实现这一目标。”罗克韦尔同时宣布发布了其OPC Gateway，一种为罗克韦尔自动化用户增加连接选择的软件应用。Gateway帮助那些非罗克韦尔自动化的OPC用户，例如人机界面（HMI）和生产执行系统（MES）软件的用户，在分布式和冗余环境下利用罗克韦尔软件FactoryTalk平台的部件，实现双向的通讯应用。这就提供了高度集成，帮助生产商使用FactoryTalk的安全、诊断和审核等服务建立他们的应用。

"The OPC gateway helps non-Rockwell Automation applications communicate with the FactoryTalk world," said Roach. "This will help users who have installed a mix of products from different automation and information-level vendors to exchange real-time data freely, leverage their manufacturing information assets, and improve enterprise-wide interoperability."

Roach继续指出：“OPC Gateway 帮助那些非罗克韦尔应用与FactoryTalk相通，这将帮助那些已经混合安装了不同自动化和信息水平供应商产品的用户自由地交换实时数据，调整他们的生产信息资产，提高企业级的互用性。”

The OPC Gateway is a part of the FactoryTalk Data Management production discipline, which provides tools and methods to help enable real-time transformation, integration and workflow across disparate systems, as well as collection and storage of master data, event, process, and production information.

OPC Gateway是FactoryTalk数据管理生产纪律的一部分，为实现不同系统间的实时转换、整合和工作流提供工具和方法，同时采集和存储数据、事件、过程和生产的信息。

Available now, the gateway also optimizes connectivity with the Rockwell Automation Logix control platform, another key component in the company's Integrated Architecture. Logix tags can now be passed through the OPC Gateway to other supplier applications to improve performance and help manufacturers leverage their investments in the Logix platform.

Gateway现在也可以为罗克韦尔自动化集成结构的另一个重要部分——Logix 控制平台优化连接性。Logix 连接现在可以顺利通过OPC Gateway与其他厂商的应用连接在一起，提升了性能，帮助生产商管理在其Logix平台上的投资。

Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), is a leading global provider of automation, power, control, and information solutions that help manufacturers achieve a competitive advantage in their businesses. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., U.S.A., the company employs about 21,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries

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