LabVIEW & ABB DCS

Hi wanted to ask if LabVIEW 8.0 and its DSC module can be used to interface with ABB Distributed Control System (DCS) via OPC?
If possible, anyone could offer any website for reference of information? Thanks.

HWJ wrote:
Hi to be more specific, the
question should be if anyone knows which are the OPC
servers that supports the ABB DCS systems?
and is LabVIEW and its module able to program with this OPC server?
Are there any specific OPC servers that can only be used? or any should do the job? ie SQL?
I
would think that the best way to find this out would be to contact ABB
directly. If they do not have an OPC server for their DCS system then
things are getting a little hairy I'm afraid. Maybe there are ABB
partners out there that have developed such a solution if ABB didn't do
it themselves but then the ABB sales people should know that too and
they probably are quite willing to tell you if there are such solutions.
Once you have an OPC server solution for your system LabVIEW DSC will
simply need to be configured to connect to this server and access the
tags yuou are interersted in.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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