Overview

The OPC Alarms & Events Server Toolkit is an object-oriented software toolkit used to develop high performance OPC A&E compliant servers. 

The toolkit implements all OPC A&E interfaces as defined by the OPC A&E Specification from the OPC Foundation.

Why use our toolkit to develop your OPC A&E server?

A&E server developers cut valuable time off their schedules.
Meet release deadlines and reduce your product time to market. Focus your implementation efforts on the value-add features of your server application.

Your server software maintenance costs are reduced.
Updates to the OPC Alarms & Events specification are easily applied to your OPC server. In most cases, your server application requires a simple rebuild with the revised toolkit DLL.

Your server field support and integration costs are reduced.
Our toolkit provides a comprehensive 3-tiered diagnostics suite. Your field support staff and developers use these tools quickly and definitively resolve interoperability problems.

Responsive OPC Expert support.
Our dedicated OPC developer support team is ready to answer your toolkit and application questions. You can depend on responsive and helpful advice from our support team.

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What the toolkit does

The A&E Toolkit is a royalty-free dynamic-link library (DLL) that you include with your server applications.

The DLL exposes a set of objects to your Visual C++ application (see the illustration above). The object model is simple enough for rapid server implementations, yet flexible and efficient for the development of complex and high performance OPC servers.

When you use the toolkit, your server development effort is focused on driver code development and the value-added features of your product, not the intricacies of OPC and COM. The DLL encapsulates the COM interface definitions and the OPC A&E standard.

Once your A&E server is developed, the server can be accessed by OPC A&E client applications via COM and DCOM.

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Who is using our toolkits?

Organizations using Northern Dynamic OPC server toolkits include:

ABB, Ann Arbor Computer, Analytical Technology, Inc., AspenTech, Atmos International, Ballard Generation Systems, Carl Zeiss, Centre de Recherche Industrielle du Québec (CRIQ), ConocoPhillips, DomesticSoft, Dupont, Eastman Kodak, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Fermilab (US Government), GE Fanuc Automation, GE Industrial, GE Lighting, Hermes SoftLab GmbH, Honeywell, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Monarch Instrument, Munger Company, NASA, National Grid USA, Northern Power Systems, Rolls Royce, Research Systems Inc (RSI), Rockwell Automation, Siemens AG, Standard Automation, VAI Industries (UK).

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