Hi Kevin, Has the OPC A&C made it to the 8.3 roadmap?
A lot of SCADA systems offer A&E, customers request the interfaces. It would be a shame of it wouldn't be a part of Ignition in the near future..
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Yeah it’s planned. At this point it’s at risk of slipping from 8.3.0 to 8.3.x, but it’s planned.
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I really hope this gets prioritized because it will increase our production flexibility a lot. Will we get some new information about this new generic event infrastructure on ICC ?
I'm sure it'll be mentioned in the tech keynote, and the "Deeper Dive into 8.3: New Features" session on day 1 also mentions Event Streams.
I’d much much much prefer A&E support over the drawing tool! Comeon IA! I’ve been more than patient on this!
Hi Kevin, Is there any news on this?
It would really be a very useful feature to be able to incorporate A&C via OPC UA.
We're still planing to do this for 8.3, though it's at risk of slipping to 8.3.x instead of 8.3.0.
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Can IA not use a third-party A&E server as an optional module (like the OPC UA is integrated as a third-party module in Ignition) so that people can choose between Ignitions native alarms module and the third part A&E module? I know that native alarms module has many excellent features built into it but a third-party module will be more interoperable. This will meet the requirements of people who are absolutely dependent on OPC A&E specs.
This feature isn't really about alarms in Ignition, it's about alarms in other OPC UA servers and being able to get notified that an alarm condition in that server has triggered, via the OPC UA Events mechanism. Plus support for something like system.opcua.acknowledgeAlarm for when an Event happens to be an Alarm/Condition that you want to acknowledge from Ignition.
Alarms and Conditions in OPC UA are just a kind of Event.
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My understanding was that alarms within Ignition are also generated from OPC UA module withing Ignition which triggers alarms events that are used by an alarm module within Ignition or an OPC Client outside Ignition. I thought present Alarm module within Ignition does the alarm or event detection on its own by setting event triggers on Tags where alarms are defined. However, with OPC A&E, alarm limits only on OPC tags can be defined not for other alarms like in present Implementation in Ignition. I don't know! Honestly, I haven't ready the OPC A&E specs in detail, it was just my gut feeling.
Alarms have nothing to do with the OPC UA module.