Antero is a full-featured CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) designed to help meet the record-keeping and maintenance tracking needs of virtually any industry. Antero allows users to create and maintain equipment; inventory and track spare parts and usage, schedule, generate and log work orders from start to finish which include equipment and tasks, parts, labor, sub-contractors and instructions.
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•OPC/DDE Interface Application
About the OPC/DDE Interface
The OPC/DDE Interface can automate the process of entering equipment Instrument readings into the Antero maintenance program by acting as the go-between from your current meter controls software (such as SCADA) and the Antero maintenance program. The OPC/DDE Interface allows users to define links between controls and Antero instrument data. Timed intervals or scheduled readings can be set; in the background an application will be running, polling for links ready to be read. At the defined time a reading will be requested and based on the link information, data will be retrieved and stored to the Antero database.
OPC/DDE Interface Usage
The Antero OPC/DDE Interface reviews the database to determine when links are scheduled to be read, perform the readings, and to write the data back to the Antero database. For users connecting to OPC data sources, the interface should only be required to be run on one server, ideally the OPC server or a machine with a component of the SCADA system for tunneling.
Should the user desire to connect to a DDE data source on a different computer (or if the OPC server is not accessible on the same network), a second installation of the AnteroOPC/DDE Interface may need to be performed in order to properly access the data source. DDE connections are not network visible and as such the 'OPC/DDE Interface' must be running on the same computer (or server) where the DDE data source is stored or visible.
