MatrikonOPC Funnel

MatrikonOPC Funnel provides a single gateway to all your process data. Now your applications only have to make one simple connection to access all of your plant data

Use OPC Funnel to make all the OPC Client connections you need to any number of OPC Servers - regardless of what vendors your OPC Servers are from, what versions of the OPC Specification each implements, or how many connections each OPC Server supports. OPC Funnel maximizes the value of your OPC Servers by enabling all your OPC Clients to access all the data they need - simultaneously.

OPC Funnel provides a single gateway that enables OPC clients to easily connect to multiple OPC Servers. This is ideal in situations where a client, such as a process historian, can only make a single connection to a data source due to licensing restrictions, or perhaps where a poorly programmed OPC client is only able to make one connection to a single OPC server.

MatrikonOPC Funnel can be used in many situations, a few of which are explained below: Can be used to manage restrictions, where the OPC server performs best when a certain number of groups and items are allowed per group. l Can connect locally to the OPC client, which can connect to the OPC server in situations where the OPC client cannot handle DCOM connections to remote OPC servers. l Can be used to connect to multiple OPC servers. This way the OPC client is only expected to connect only to the Funnel, to connect to multiple OPC servers. l Allows the user to browse for OPC items in the OPC server to which the Funnel is connected. l HDA requests made by the OPC client can be broken up into smaller requests by MatrikonOPC Funnel for throttling purposes on the end OPC HDA server.