OPC TO SAP
INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS
Streamline plant floor analysis and reporting with easy integration.
Deploy sophisticated real-time interfaces between your operational-level systems and SAP for an integrated plant floor.
NLINK® can help solve any number of plant floor challenges.
Combine plant control and SAP business data to perform automatic measurement recording, reporting, analysis, and notifications. Facilitate Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), and Operating Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) with a simple, ready-to-go solution.
Versatile Connectivity
Integrate your manufacturing systems such as SCADA, PLC, DCS and shop floor devices with SAP. Read OPC Tag values as they change, apply Business Logic to the data and automatically post the results to SAP.
Scalable Architecture
Optimize your manufacturing process by adding new systems, validation, business logic and filtering. Provide operators with mobile displays of actionable data to increase productivity.
Customized Reporting
Define measurement points based on control system tags and create automatic notifications within SAP from sets of user-filtered process control alarms and events.
NLINK for OPC to SAP Integration
Bring together all your plant floor systems.
Eliminate manual data collection and analysis without compromising reliability or uptime. NLINK is a reliable, no-code integration platform that connects your plant floor systems and SAP, increasing the efficiency of your manufacturing operations. Real-time actionable data can revolutionize your process, improve quality and increase output. Solve your integration issues with a versatile platform that connects directly with SAP using existing APIs.
No Coding
Configuration-based system with absolutely no custom coding required.
Rapid Deployment
Can be installed and deployed in minutes and rolling out additional sites requires a single file.
Zero Footprint
Does not require anything to be installed into the SAP landscape and no custom ABAP is required.
Ready to Go
Comes with pre-built transactions to support Condition Based Monitoring of Assets.
Operationally Flexible
User interface allows a variety of thresholds, triggers and other criteria to be specified per asset or group.
Stable and Secure
Uses existing APIs and configuration settings to be a stable, reliable solution.
Our Support
Connectivity without complications.
For more than two decades NLINK products have provided no-code connectivity between manufacturing systems and SAP. Thanks to a configuration-based platform, you can embed SAP connectivity without requiring extensive IT involvement. This stable approach provides unmatched customization without compromising reliability and up-time. Give your customers a reliable SAP connection the moment they onboard your software or equipment.
Store and Forward
NLINK spools data when SAP is unavailable and delivers it first-in, first-out once SAP is back up.
SAP Certified
The NLINK product suite has been continuously SAP Certified since 1999.
Layered Security
Connect to the plant floor and SAP using the same secure protocols that SAP users already use.
IT Transparency
Built-in e-mail alerts, audit logs, trace files and an IT administrator’s management console.
case study
Turning raw operational data into automated work orders.
A mining operation produces a lot of asset data. From drills to pumps to motors, the customer needed a way to wade through the data and use it to monitor performance and dispatch maintenance teams.
use cases
NLINK can solve a number of operational challenges.
Maintenance processing
Maintenance Notifications or Malfunction Reports in SAP can be created automatically for breakdowns or out-of-range readings as registered by the equipment monitoring devices.
Sample applications may include:
- Stronger than normal vibration readings on pumps or compressors
- Weaker than normal electrical output from generators
- Equipment breakdown (non-functioning) for any equipment
Production planning
Process planning tools for resource, recipe and process management, as well as process planning and production information management.
Fully support production planning by receiving planned orders from SAP and then generating real-time process data during production to allow further processing, such as:
- Materials Management
- Quality Management
- Process Costing
- Generation of Electronic Batch Records
Inspection readings in assembly and testing
In the manufacturing of actuators and control devices where torque readings need to be tested, or in process industries where quality control data needs to be tracked, the devices that capture these readings can automatically report the readings into the SAP QM module as Inspection Results.
Sample applications may include:
- Operating Output Torque Ranges / Maximum-Torque output reading for an Electric Actuator
- Operating Supply Pressure Ranges for Pneumatic Actuators
Inventory reconciliation on tank farms
Through the use of various OPC compliant devices and gauges that monitor the tank farms and provide feedback on tank information, inventory levels in a tank farm can be automatically interfaced with SAP’s Inventory Management module.
Sample applications may include:
- Reporting differences between inventory levels in the tank versus expected levels in SAP
- Reconciling inventory differences between planned consumption and actual consumption in SAP
- Triggering purchase requisitions based on actual tank levels.
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OPC Servers
OPC DA Servers Version 2.00 Version 2.05a Version 3.00
The NLINK OPC to SAP Solution has been successfully tested against the following commercially available OPC DA servers:
- ABB Inc.:
- AC800M OPC Server 5.0.7.34
- Advosol Inc.:
- OPC-DA Gateway Server to XML DA 4.0
- DANSrv OPC DA .NET Server Toolkit 4.2.1
- Chemstations, Inc.:
- CHEMCAD 5.6.4
- Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.:
- OPC DataHub 6.4
- OPC DataHub 6.3
- OPC DataHub 6.0.2
- Cyberlogic Technologies, Inc.:
- DHX OPC Server Suite 7.00
- MBX OPC Server Suite 7.00
- Validator 7.00
- Cyberlogic OPC Server 6.00
- ExperTune, Inc.:
- ExperTune PlantTriage 7.4.4
- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms:
- Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX 4.5
- Proficy HMI/SCADA – CIMPLICITY 7.0 Build 9039
- Honeywell Inc.:
- Uniformance PHD OPC DA/HDA Server 210.1.1
- ICONICS, Inc.:
- DataWorX32 OPC DA Server 9.0.165.0
- DataWorX32 OPC Tunneling 9.0
- InduSoft LLC:
- Fluke DA OPC Server 4.0
- Kepware Technologies:
- KEPServerEX OPC Server V4.270.416
- KEPServerEX OPC Server V4.222.376
- KEPServerEX OPC Server V4.200.353
- MatrikonOPC:
- MatrikonOPC Universal Server 2.0.1.0
- MatrikonOPC Universal Server 1.0.0.0
- MatrikonOPC Desktop Historian™ 3.0.2.0
- MatrikonOPC (Triconex/Simulation) 4.1.1.0
- MSIndustrie Software GmbH:
- MSIOPCServerPMA 1.1.0.4
- MSIOPCServerNICE 1.1.0.4
- MSIOPCServerW 1.1.0.4
- National Instruments:
- LabVIEW 8.0
- OSIsoft Inc.:
- PI DA/HDA Server 1.2.4.0
- PI DA Server (spec 1.0, 2.0) 1.2.0.11
- PI DA Server (spec 1.0, 2.0) 1.1.0.25
- Rockwell Software Inc:
- FactoryTalk Gateway 3.5.2.1
- FactoryTalk Gateway 3.42.00
- FactoryTalk Gateway 3.01.50
- SENSYS Inc.:
- IntelliMax v3.0
- IntelliMax v3.5
- Siemens AG:
- Simatic NET OPC Servers V7.0
- Simatic WinCC WinCC V6.2
- Simatic WinCC WinCC V6.0 SP4
- Simatic WinCC Connectivity Station V 6.2
- Simatic WinCC Flexible 2008
- Software Toolbox, Inc:
- SLIK-DA OPC DA Server ActiveX/.NET Control 4.0
- OmniServer Universal Configurable OPC Server 2.5.003
- TOP Server OPC Servers 4.270.416
- TOP Server OPC Servers 4.222.376
- Takebishi Corporation:
- DeviceXPlorer OPC Server 0.3
- DeviceXPlorer MELSEC OPC Server 3.12.3
- DeviceXPlorer MODBUS OPC Server 3.1.1.5
- DeviceXPlorer FA-M3 OPC Server 3.1.1.5
- DeviceXPlorer MELSEC OPC Server 3.1.1.5
- DeviceXPlorer SYSMAC OPC Server 3.1.1.5
- DeviceXPlorer TOYOPUC OPC Server 3.1.1.5
- Triangle MicroWorks, Inc:
- SCADA Data Gateway – Client and Server 2.38
- Wonderware:
- ABTCP DAServer 1.5.100
- GESRTP DAServer 1.5.100
- MBSerial DAServer 2.5.200
- MBTCP DAServer 1.5.100
- OMFINSEthernet DAServer 1.5.000
- MTEthernet DAServer 1.5.000
- FSGateway 1.5
- ABCIP DAServer 4.0
- DASABCIP v3.0.001
- SIDIRECT DAServer 1.5.100
- DASSIDirect 1.5
- DAS SI Direct 1.1
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation:
- Exaopc OPC Interface Package R3.21
- STARDOM “FCN/FCJ OPC Server for Windows” R1.80.01
OPC HDA Servers Version 1.00 Version 1.1.0 Version 1.20
The NLINK OPC to SAP Solution has been successfully tested against the following commercially available OPC HDA servers:
- Advosol Inc.:
- HDANSrv OPC HDA .NET Server Toolkit Standard Edition 2.0
- Canary Labs, Inc.:
- Trend Historian – HDA Server & DA Client 6.1
- Honeywell Inc.:
- Uniformance PHD OPC DA/HDA Server 210.1.1
- InduSoft LLC:
- Fluke HDA OPC Server 4.0
- MatrikonOPC:
- MatrikonOPC Universal Server 2.0.1.0
- MatrikonOPC Universal Server 1.0.0.0
- Matrikon OPC Desktop Historian™ 3.3.0.0
- Matrikon OPC Desktop Historian™ 3.0.2.0
- OSIsoft Inc.:
- PI HDA Server (spec 1.2) 1.2.4.0
- PI HDA Server (spec 1.2) 1.2.0.11
- PI HDA Server (spec 1.2) 1.1.0.25
- ECHO HDA Server (spec 1.2) 1.0.0.31
- SENSYS Inc.:
- IntelliMax v3.0
- Siemens AG:
- Simatic WinCC WinCC V6.0 SP4
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation:
- Exaopc OPC Interface Package R3.21
OPC A&E Servers Version 1.00 Version 1.02 Version 1.10
The NLINK OPC to SAP Solution has been successfully tested against the following commercially available OPC A&E servers:
- ABB Inc.:
- AC800M OPC Server 5.0.7.34
- Cyberlogic Technologies, Inc.:
- Cyberlogic OPC Server 6.00
- DHX OPC Server Suite 7.00
- MBX OPC Server Suite 7.00
- Validator 7.00
- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms:
- Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY 7.0.7.5
- ICONICS, Inc.:
- AlarmWorX32 OPC Alarm and Events Server 9.0.166.0
- DataWorX32 OPC Tunneling 9.0
- MatrikonOPC:
- MatrikonOPC Universal Server 2.0.1.0
- MatrikonOPC Universal Server 1.0.0.0
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation:
- MX OPC Server 6.00
- SENSYS Inc.:
- IntelliMax v3.0
- Siemens AG:
- Simatic Net OPC Servers V7.0.0.0
- Simatic WinCC V7.0
- Simatic WinCC V6.0 SP4
- Simatic WinCC Connectivity Station V7.0
- Simatic Net OPC Servers V6.4.0.1
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation:
- Exaopc OPC Interface Package R3.21
- Triangle MicroWorks, Inc:
- SCADA Data Gateway – Client and Server 2.38
Scada Systems
SCADA, PLC, HMI and DCS Systems to SAP
The NLINK OPC to SAP Solution has been successfully tested and/or deployed in a production environment connecting the following SCADA, PLC, HMI and DCS Systems to SAP:
- Wonderware InTouch
- Allen-Bradley ControlLogix / RSLogix
- Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 / Exaquantum
- GE iFIX
- Emerson DeltaV
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do we integrate OPC data with SAP Systems?
The NLINK OPC Connector can connect to any OPC DA or UA server, providing bi-directional, real-time data exchange between the OPC server and the NLINK server. NLINK then bridges the gap between the control layer data, through mapping, routing and transforming the data before applying business logic and sending it to SAP. Thus, manufacturing control engineers can expose any data from the control layer with SAP and pass any SAP data down to the control layer. This is industrial middleware.
How does OPC to SAP integration impact data accuracy and reliability?
Today, control systems (PLCs, DCSs and SCADAs) and intelligent devices are rarely integrated with robust, real-time bi-directional interfaces with SAP.
The NLINK OPC Connector allows any such system or device to be connected to SAP via the OPC protocol. Once connected, appropriate data from the control layer can be exchanged with SAP in real-time, dramatically improving accuracy, and when using an ultra-reliable industrial middleware also increasing reliability.
What are the security implications of integrating OPC with SAP?
End-to-end connectivity is defined by control system to OPC server to NLINK to SAP. The NLINK OPC Connector operates as an OPC client, reading or writing OPC Tag values. This effectively isolates the control system from NLINK. NLINK is a secure enterprise application and the methods used to connect to SAP can also be selected with enhanced security in mind. A typical real-time synchronous connection between NLINK and SAP would be established via RFCs and BAPIs. In this case, NLINK accesses SAP as an RFC client in the same way that a regular user does. This, in turn, means that all security and authorization is managed and controlled by the SAP BASIS team as they would secure any other connection. Additional layers of security can be easily added, such as assigning the NLINK user to be a background user, (i.e., no SAP GUI access) and optionally employing SAP’s SNC protocol.
What are the costs associated with OPC to SAP integration?
All of the same costs as any manufacturing plant floor integration plus the cost of the OPC server if not already procured. The real question is what are the costs associated with not developing real-time bi-directional interfaces between the control layer and the SAP system in a manufacturing plant?
Why Junot Systems
Focused on supporting manufacturing operations by simplifying SAP integration.
Decades of SAP Experience
Junot Systems’ NLINK solutions have been in the market for more than 25 years. We’ve seen countless SAP configurations and environments. That experience helps us evaluate your unique setup and unify your systems quickly and effectively.
No Custom Code Needed
NLINK is built from the ground up to be a stable, reliable zero-code solution that requires nothing to be installed into the SAP landscape.
Rock Solid Reliability
One customer site went 14 years from NLINK installation to their first service call. While we love staying in touch with you, we’re glad you won’t need us very often. But when you do, we deliver fast, professional technical assistance to get you back up and running as fast as possible.
Global Footprint
We’ve supported hundreds of worldwide NLINK implementations in industries like implementations in the automotive manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, refining, rail and mining industries. Whatever you need to connect and support, chances are we’ve seen something similar.
NLINK’s robustness and built-in store-and-forward capability has proven to be invaluable in maintaining the reliability and integrity of the data connection between our MES and SAP.
MES Lead, Fortune 100 Lithium Ion Automotive Battery Manufacturer
NLINK’s rich set of built-in methods to connect plant floor data to SAP allowed us to rapidly create a number of real-time, bi-directional SAP interfaces that fully integrated our plant floor systems to SAP.
SAP Project Lead, Fortune 100 Manufacturing Company
We needed a simple-to-use, reliable and feature rich SAP integration solution in order for us to build a set of real-time interfaces between our MES and SAP. NLINK has quickly become the cornerstone of our SAP integration strategy.
Sr. Manager, Systems Applications & Development, $12Bn Plastics Manufacturer
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