How Do I Use OPC-UA with the PAC?

Owned by Perla Madrigal (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Apr 29, 2024 by Corey Boyles
2 min read

  1.  Develop your program

    image-20240213-232936.png

  2. Go to the "Symbol Configuration". Parker Automation Manager has already been tracking the global and local variables you've developed (and even DUTs and more complex structures) whose data can be shared over OPC-DA.** The list of available options to share are shown here. To show OPC-UA available data types, users would go to "Settings" -> "Support OPC-UA Features" as  shown below.

    image-20240213-232946.png

  3. From here, users can make their selection of OPC-UA supported variables and data types they'd like to make available to an OPC-UA client that will connect to the PAC. Word of caution, some structures such as function blocks may expose data at lower levels than you intend. Be sure to use the root-tree structure of the Symbol Configuration to only share what is needed.

  4. That's it!

**You may need to click the "Build" button to refresh and expose the variables / data available in the Symbol Configurator.

Â