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

羅克韋爾自動化開放工業標準和互連性用于提高控制系統信息整合

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

OPC基金會的指導和羅克韋爾軟件公司頒布的OPC Gateway幫助生產商提高工廠設備的連接性和數據共享

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.

密爾沃基2月21號訊—羅克韋爾自動化今天宣布羅克韋爾軟件副總裁Kevin Roach被選為OPC基金會董事會成員，表明了其繼續開放標準和互用性的承諾。Roach是OPC基金會七個負責技術、市場和金融的董事會成員之一。OPC基金會是一個非贏利國際標準組織，致力于為工業自動化提供互用性標準。

"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：“作出英明的商業決策需要生產商在一個設備群和應用之間無縫地共享實時信息。羅克韋爾自動化正是通過積極參與OPC基金會以及調節我們產品的開放式標準實現更好的連接性和數據共享，幫助生產商實現這一目標。”羅克韋爾同時宣布發布了其OPC Gateway，一種為羅克韋爾自動化用戶增加連接選擇的軟件應用。Gateway幫助那些非羅克韋爾自動化的OPC用戶，例如人機界面（HMI）和生產執行系統（MES）軟件的用戶，在分布式和冗余環境下利用羅克韋爾軟件FactoryTalk平臺的部件，實現雙向的通訊應用。這就提供了高度集成，幫助生產商使用FactoryTalk的安全、診斷和審核等服務建立他們的應用。

"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繼續指出：“OPC Gateway 幫助那些非羅克韋爾應用與FactoryTalk相通，這將幫助那些已經混合安裝了不同自動化和信息水平供應商產品的用戶自由地交換實時數據，調整他們的生產信息資產，提高企業級的互用性。”

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數據管理生產紀律的一部分，為實現不同系統間的實時轉換、整合和工作流提供工具和方法，同時采集和存儲數據、事件、過程和生產的信息。

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現在也可以為羅克韋爾自動化集成結構的另一個重要部分——Logix 控制平臺優化連接性。Logix 連接現在可以順利通過OPC Gateway與其他廠商的應用連接在一起，提升了性能，幫助生產商管理在其Logix平臺上的投資。

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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