Advanced Tag Option for KEPServerEX

Overview

Your machines may not deliver all the data you need for proper operations assessment. Variables such as Cycle Time, Maximum Temperature, Downtime Reason, etc. may not exist, yet are essential for operations analysis. For this reason, the KEPServerEX solution offers an option, called Advanced Tags that can deliver a variety of analytics.

Advanced Tags deliver an array of mathematic and logical operators enabling the generation of new data, or the aggregation of existing data into information suitable for higher level archival and analysis. Through Advanced Tags, users can measure the duration of operations, totalize events, perform averages over a group of sensors, set trigger conditions for data acquisition and combine machine conditions to generate an overall machine state, valuable for future analytics. Advanced Tags are very similar to I/O Tags. Rather than defining I/O data source details, Advanced Tags enable you to create an expression, browsing from existing data tags, and combining them with Math and logic operators to generate a new result.

Oracle Connectivity Suite - Advanced Tag Option

*Note: Complex Tags are only available to Oracle MES and MOC users. Complex tags can be configured but are not accessible from non Oracle clients.

Features

Specific Driver Features

Specific

The Advanced Tag Option is a plug-in to KEPServerEX and allows you to manipulate data for advanced analysis. The Advanced Tag Option is used in conjunction with KEPServerEX communication device drivers.

Key Features

Average Tag - Calculates the average value of a tag over a defined time
Complex Tag - Group multiple tags of varying data types (currently supported for Oracle MOC connection only) as a single complex item or structure.
Derived Tag – Use math and logic functions with single or multiple tags
Maximum Tag – Reads and persists maximum value of tag over a defined time
Minimum Tag - Reads and persists minimum value of tag over a defined time
Oracle Cumulative Tag – Difference between the current value and previous value. (Oracle defined, available to all Client applications)

General

Multi-threaded design ensures optimum performance
Full Time On-line operation allows on the fly changes
Channel Diagnostics with protocol display
OPC Diagnostic feature provides a real-time and historical view of OPC events that occur between any OPC client and the server
Additional System Tags provided for monitoring and diagnostics
Free OPC Test Client provided
Modem support included on all Serial port drivers
CSV file import and export of Server tags for easy configuration on large projects
Auto Demotion of Devices
Supports running as a Windows service
Supports direct scaling of device data which allows raw device data to be converted to engineering units for OPC client applications
Automatically backup project file on save
Includes a built-in User Manager that allows complete control over what types of functionality each individual user can access
Allows the user to specifically select a NIC card for use with any Ethernet driver or serial driver running in Ethernet Encapsulation mode
Supports up to 16 concurrent serial ports and PC card configurations

Client

OPC Client Support

OPC DA 1.0
OPC DA 2.05a
OPC DA 3.0

DDE Client Support

DDE CF-Text
NetDDE
AdvancedDDE
FastDDE for Wonderware’s Intouch

3rd Party Client Support

NIO for GE Fanuc’s iFIX
SuiteLink for Wonderware’s Intouch

VB

Visual Basic

KEPServerEX Visual Basic OPC Client.
Complex and Simple Visual Basic OPC Client Examples.
Using Modems and Visual Basic with KEPServerEX.
Download the Modem and VB Example with the Source Code.
Visual Basic FAQ's.

Required

Required Software and Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 2000 (SP4 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2003 (SP2 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows XP (SP2 or greater)
Windows Vista Business/Ultimate (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit)

PC Hardware

Minimum

400 Mhz Pentium CPU
128 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended

600 Mhz Pentium CPU
512 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Help

Help/Links

Revisions

Advanced Tag Option for KEPServerEX OPC Server Revisions

Build	Issue/Enhancement/Fix
Server V4.300.449.0 Advanced Tag 08/29/08	- New Plug-in