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Improving User Productivity Through Systems Integration
Published in Michael A. Mische, Reengineering, 2017
Additionally, such technologies as Windows, coupled with Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), are examples of other minimum standards that have been defined at the higher levels of the architecture to provide users with seamless access to multiple functionality through a single application or desktop screen. OLE provides the ability to embed objects (i.e., documents, images, and text) within objects or link them to other externally stored objects from within an object, regardless of the application that created the embedded or linked objects. The applications that operate on these objects can be automatically launched by selecting the objects.
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Published in Rick Bitter, Taqi Mohiuddin, Matt Nawrocki, LabVIEW™ Advanced Programming Techniques, 2017
Rick Bitter, Taqi Mohiuddin, Matt Nawrocki
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), or automation, is the ability to place objects from other software programs into another application. This ability allows both the expansion of the program’s abilities and the ability to manipulate data in another application. An example of this would be taking a movie clip (AVI file) and embedding it in a Word file. Even though Word has no idea what a movie clip is, it can display it in the word processing environment. OLE is a method by which objects can be transferred between applications.
Communication method for manufacturing services in a cyber–physical manufacturing cloud
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2018
S. M. Nahian Al Sunny, Xiaoqing F. Liu, Md Rakib Shahriar
OLE for Process Control (OPC) is a significant of many manufacturing networks at higher levels by offering a standardised interface for communication of industrial data. Maintained by the OPC Foundation, The OPC specification has combined object linking and embedding (OLE), component object model (COM), and distributed component object model (DCOM) technologies developed by Microsoft (Leitner and Mahnke 2006). The OPC specification outlined a standard set of objects, interfaces, and methods for use in process control and manufacturing automation applications to facilitate interoperability. OPC data access (OPC DA) is the most commonly used OPC specification, which is used to read and write real-time data. It allows real-time communication of process values over Ethernet with a client-server model. Several other variants of OPC have also been developed, including OPC historical data access which permits for acquiring stored values, OPC data exchange for two-way communication using a server-server model and OPC XML Data Access, which uses XML for communication. Later in 2006, the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) has been specified and was being tested and implemented through its Early Adopters program. OPC UA (IEC 62541) combines the functionality of the existing OPC interfaces with new technologies such as XML and Web Services to deliver higher level manufacturing execution system (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) support. OPC and OPC UA provided the opportunity of accessing machine tool not only from factory floor but also from outside the factory. In recent years, MTConnect has acquired much acknowledgements after the release of its version 1.0 in 2008 (Vijayaraghavan et al. 2008). MTConnect is designed to enhance interoperability of manufacturing machines by providing a uniform XML-based data reporting structure. It is fundamentally a read-only framework, i.e. its principal focus is data monitoring and analysis. MTConnect enables manufacturing machines to be monitored over the Internet. The primary objective of MTConnect is to create a universal machine language that is understandable to all machines and also to the users. MTConnect provides a RESTful interface – there is no need of establishing any session or logon/logoff sequence to acquire data. As MTConnect is not designed for any specific type of machines, several types of manufacturing resources such as CNC machine, industrial robot, milling machine, 3D printer (Liu, Sunny, et al. 2016) currently are made compatible with MTConnect standard. In 2010, The OPC Foundation and the MTConnect Institute declared a cooperation to ensure interoperability and consistency between the two standards (ThomasNet 2010). AutomationML (Automation Markup Language) is another promising upcoming open standard series (IEC 62714) for the description of production plants and plant components (Drath et al. 2008). AutomationML describes the contents – what is exchanged between the parties and systems involved. It helps to model plants and plant components with their skills, topology, interfaces, and relations to others, geometry, kinematics, and even logic and behaviour. A joint working group of the AutomationML e.V. and the OPC Foundation deals with the creation of a companion specification ‘AutomationML in OPC UA’ (Henssen and Schleipen 2014).