OPC Server (Matrikon) and LabVIEW2009 (Client)

[Fuzzy Me]

Hello,

In one of application, I am going to use OPC Server may be from Matrikon etc  and LabVIEW 2009 would be a client.

So could anybody help me to start this with respective to following?

   1) Which software/Modules else required?

   2) How to get Server connection In Application for data exchange ?

   3) Any startup code?

   4) Any tutorial (Other than NI)?

Thanks in Advance 🙂

With Regards

Hemant

[SanRac]

Hemya,

If you are going to use third party OPC server, definitely there are some commands to control the different parameters.

For reading and writing command u can use the datasocket.

For example refer National Instruments\LabVIEW 2009\examples\comm\opc.llb\Multiple OPC Items Monitor.vi

Regards

Santosh

[The_Devil]

Hello Hemant,

I guess you are going to communicate with LabVIEW using the OPC Server's, so you will need to create an IO Server OPC client under your project Explorer inorder to access the tags that you might have created under your Matrikon OPC server. Once those tags are made you will bind those tags under your OPC client library in LabVIEW and drag and drop those variables in your VI to get the data from your PLC to your LabVIEW code.

Hope this helps.

Thank You.

Priyank

[Mony]

Hello

I am to communicate with LabVIEW using the OPC Server's and OPC server´s Matrikon, I have all my varibles in Labview OPC Client, but to run my program my VI. I have an error someone can help me.

[N\A]

Hi Mony,

I recommend contacting OPCSupport for your questions. They will help you out step by step... here is how you can get in touch with team:

www.OPCSupport.com

Cheers,

Wassim Daoud

Global Solutions Architect

www.MatrikonOPC.com

[Fuzzy Me]

Mony,

I have used Matrikon OPC client with labVIEW once sucessfully !

Brief :

1> Created Shared variable in LabVIEW.

2> Deployed them on National Instruments Variable Engine

3> Keep on updating them from LabVIEW.

On Matrikon OPC Client side

1>Detected National Instruments Variable Engine (Automatically)

2> Connected to it

3> Added  shared Variables library for monitoring.

4> Also some time to updte.

Regards

Hemant