PC Soft Supplies OPC Technology to VenturCom's DCX Interface

<%=company1%>, a Mansfield, MA-based supplier of industrial automation control and monitoring software, announced that it has entered into an agreement with VenturCom Inc. to provide its OPC (OLE for Process Control) interface technology to be included with VenturCom's DCX driver and messaging product.

VenturCom provides products and expertise for Windows-based embedded, real-time, and control applications. Additionally both Microsoft and Intel have invested in the company and in joint development work.

According to PC Soft, this agreement will enable the industrial automation marketplace to take advantage of the real-time communications and "plug and play" device driver standards that VenturCom's DCX provides.

DCX is a scalable middleware for real-time data/control exchange between software components, including applications, device drivers and OPC clients. Through this agreement, VenturCom leverages PC Soft International's expertise in developing toolkits and interfaces for communication based on the OPC standard.

"PC Soft has first hand experience with the need to exchange data between real-time control and visualization software," says Jim Hansen, senior software architect of PC Soft International. "Our development of an OPC server for DCX will enable anyone with an OPC client application to have immediate connectivity to data within the VenturCom real-time subsystem."

"PC Soft's OPC capabilities in DCX helps us support existing standards while offering new and open real-time messaging capabilities which were previously not possible with Windows NT," adds Roy Kok, director of product management at VenturCom (Cambridge, MA). "This agreement builds on a solid relationship with PC Soft, which both companies established in 1996."

Edited by Jim Lardear