Weatherford 8500 OPC Server
Product # EX5-WFORD-NA00 - $2,495.00
Support & Maintenance within Warranty - $499.00
Support & Maintenance out Warranty / Expired - $1247.50
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Support & Maintenance out Warranty / Expired - $1247.50
The Weatherford 8500 Serial Driver allows the monitoring of real-time data and immediate control of the Rod Pump Controller (RPC) devices and other Weatherford controllers that are used at wellhead facilities. It provides an easy and reliable way to read and write data to Weatherford series devices via the Weatherford 8500 protocol through client applications (including HMI, SCADA, Historian, MES, ERP, and countless custom applications).
The Weatherford 8500 OPC Driver is also included in the Oil and Gas Suite for KEPServerEX.
Weatherford 8500 Datasheet (US PDF)
Weatherford 8500 Datasheet (A4 PDF)
Weatherford 8500 OPC Server Manual (PDF)
Plug-in Driver Features:
- Data acquisition support for Downhole Dynagraph data.
- Event directory retrieval.
- Surface and downhole card retrieval.
- Valve check data item syntax.
- Ethernet Encapsulation
- Automatic Tag Generation.
- Automatic Device Demotion.
- Channel Virtualization/Serialization
- Supports up to 256 Communication Channels.
- Supports up to 4095 Devices/Controllers.
- Device Level and Communications Path Based Redundancy.
- Modem Support.
- Optimized for extreme conditions (noisy communication channels and low-bandwidth).
Protocol
Weatherford 8500 Protocol.Application Support
- OPC Data Access (OPC DA) Versions 1.0a, 2.0, 2.05a, 3.0
- OPC Alarms and Events (OPC AE) Version 1.10
- OPC Unified Architecture(OPC UA) Version 1.01
- OPC .NET Service (OPC .NET) Version 1.00
- SuiteLink and FastDDE for Wonderware
- NIO Interface for iFIX
- DDE Format CF_Text and AdvancedDDE
Supported Devices
- WellPilot RPOC
- WellPilot/ePIC VSD
- ePIC RPC
- M2000
- 8800
- 8750
- 8500/8650
Additional Information and Resources:
Drivers "Plug-in" to KEPServerEX
The Weatherford 8500 OPC Server is a plug-in device driver for KEPServerEX. A "Plug-in" is a software program (.dll) that extends the capabilities of KEPServerEX to fit the communication requirements of a specific device or system. The plug-in driver handles all of the proprietary communications between the device/system and the OPC layer, KEPServerEX. The KEPServerEX core then handles all OPC and Proprietary Client communications between the plug-in driver and the Client application. For a complete list of features and capabilities please visit the KEPServerEX overview page.- OPC Foundation Certified - The Best of OPC on the Market
- High Performance - Multi Threaded - Runtime Configurable
- Detailed Protocol Diagnostics - Communications Trace
- Detailed OPC Diagnostics - Communications Trace
- Native Interfaces - Client Connectivity Beyond the OPC Standards
- Stratus High Availability Computing - Certified
- Marathon High Availability Computing - Certified
- Kepware 2 Hour Demonstration Mode on all Products