What OPC Router is and What it Offers You

In a nutshell, OPC Router is a communications platform focused on facilitating integration between different systems.

Originally designed for the industrial environment, this solution was created to simplify projects that required bidirectional communication between different process control devices (PLCs, labelers, classic databases, MES systems, etc.) with SAP ERP for production control and planning.

Maintaining its characteristics of agile and visual configuration, the solution has grown to include new communication methods to enable integration with more systems, not only process-related ones, such as IoT platforms (Azure, AWS, Google IoT Core, etc.), new databases (MongoDB, InfluxDB, SAP Hana, etc.), or directly via web services, among many other functionalities that continue to grow with each new version of the solution.

But What Exactly is OPC Router Used for?

At Logitek, we see the interconnection of different systems as an unstoppable trend. The benefit of this data flow is evident, whether to better understand what is happening in the environment or to detect trends and anticipate the future. Therefore, at this moment when these needs are taking off but there is still not a great deal of knowledge of how to carry them out, we find two recurring problems:

1. The system integrator, more accustomed to working with real-time controllers, medium-sized relational databases, SCADA and MES systems, now also needs to communicate with systems such as SAP ERP or other ERP systems via web services and does not have the necessary knowledge.
2. The engineering department that is used to working with ERP systems and large volumes of information, but not with real-time data, and needs to integrate all of this with control or production systems where information cannot be exchanged via intermediate database tables.

It is in these two situations that OPC Router takes on special value, as it unites the two worlds and enables both to carry out these projects in a productive, reusable, agile, visual way, and above all, without the need for proprietary developments.

With OPC Router, the development hours of a project are reduced from a low value-added but essential phase, such as the bidirectional interconnection of systems, allowing work to be focused where it is really needed.

Conclusion

In summary, OPC Router is a communications platform that guarantees the communications of all agents present in an installation in a robust and agile manner, being useful for all types of users, projects and environments.