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Posted by charz on 11 July, 2012 - 12:12 pm
Dear All,

Im an Electrical Engineer new to automation, I have a Schneider plc, citect scada, then the software installed on the pc's are opc, MS sql. Now my questions are

1.How all these are interconnected to generate a report in excel?
2.what is opc? how it works

Regards,
Charz.


Posted by Wassim Daoud on 13 July, 2012 - 1:02 pm
Hi Charz,

> 2.what is opc? how it works

Here are some tutorials that should help you get stated with OPC:
http://www.matrikonopc.com/resources/opc-tutorials.aspx

Hope this is helpful!

Cheers,
Wassim


Posted by Jim Sutton on 18 July, 2012 - 3:55 pm
Dear Charz,

I suggest you take a look at XLReporter from SyTech since it natively interfaces to Citect SCADA both for OPC and MS SQL. See the link below for more information.

http://www.sytech.com/download/Tech_Citect.pdf

A 3 minute video explains how to create Excel reports directly from an OPC Server.

http://www.sytech.com/flash/Product/RealTime/RealTimeDataReporting. html

Hope it helps.
Jim

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