LinkMaster OPC Bridging Software

Overview

LinkMaster has the capabilities of both a "server" and a "client" application, allowing it to access, collect, organize, and link data from multiple OPC servers. Additionally, LinkMaster is an OPC and DDE server allowing it to act as a bridge between legacy DDE systems and new OPC enabled applications. The principal goal of LinkMaster is to allow you to easily link data from multiple data sources thus providing you with a simple means of integrating systems from multiple vendors into a single operational solution. Using simple drag and drop configuration, LinkMaster projects can be quickly constructed that allow you to move thousands of key process values between any OPC servers you choose to connect with.

LinkMaster is a fast and robust Windows application that requires no programming knowledge, simply "Drag and Drop" to create your links. Built-in scaling, user-access manager, error tracking, and write optimization capabilities, provide total control of your data flow and application access.

Link Groups are used to form collections of OPC items that will be moved between OPC servers at a specified rate. Using multiple Link Groups, LinkMaster allows you to control how fast data is transferred from one OPC server to another. By using Link Groups with different update rates you can tailor your data transfers to fit the needs of the application. While one item may need to be sent at high speed, other items in the application may need slower update rates. Link Group gives you that control. The benefit is reduced network traffic and increased reliability.

As an OPC/DDE server, LinkMaster allows all of the operational conditions of your project to be monitored from any OPC or DDE client application. By default this feature allows for automatic conversion of OPC data to DDE, and also allows your OPC or DDE application to control all of the operations of your LinkMaster project