Matrix went with OPC in their solution because they did not want to incur the time or expense of writing custom protocols: OPC was as close to an off-the-shelf solution as they could find. The solution in a nutshell was to allow two-way communications between the OpenVMS system and their plant floor.
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ProcessingTalk
April 2007
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