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Configuration Manual For Scada: Labview 8.2

This document provides a 3-chapter configuration manual for connecting a LabVIEW 8.2 OPC client to an OPC server. Chapter 1 discusses the OPC server and creating tags. Chapter 1-1 explains how to activate the configuration file. Chapter 1-2 describes installing the DSC module, starting an empty LabVIEW project, adding an I/O server, selecting the Modbus30DA.3 OPC, creating variables to represent tags, and building a simple VI to read a tag and display it.

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Configuration Manual For Scada: Labview 8.2

This document provides a 3-chapter configuration manual for connecting a LabVIEW 8.2 OPC client to an OPC server. Chapter 1 discusses the OPC server and creating tags. Chapter 1-1 explains how to activate the configuration file. Chapter 1-2 describes installing the DSC module, starting an empty LabVIEW project, adding an I/O server, selecting the Modbus30DA.3 OPC, creating variables to represent tags, and building a simple VI to read a tag and display it.

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Configuration Manual For SCADA

LabVIEW 8.2
Configuration Manual for SCADA Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 LabVIEW 8.2 ................................................................................................... 3 


1-1 OPC Server ............................................................................................................ 4 
1-2 Connect OPC Client to OPC Server through LabView 8.2 ..................................... 5 

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Configuration Manual for SCADA LabVIEW 8.2

1-1 OPC Server

Please create tags according to the Configuration Manual.

Later, click [ File ] Æ [ Make Active ] to activate new created configuration file.

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1-2 Connect OPC Client to OPC Server through LabVIEW 8.2

To confirm if DSC Module has already been installed, please click [ Start ] Æ [ Programs ]
Æ [ National Instruments ] Æ [ Measurement & Automation ]

Note: DSC Module (Datalogging and Supervisory Control) should be installed first, so that
OPC Client could work normally.

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[ Start ] Æ [ National Instruments LabVIEW 8.2 ] to start LabVIEW 8.2

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Please select [ Empty Project ].

On the tree view, please click [ My Computer ] and then press the right key select [ New ] Æ
[ I/O Server ]

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Select the OPC you need and then click [ Continue ].

Please select “Modbus30DA.3”; then click [ Ok ].

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Item “OPC1” means the OPC Server you have just selected.

Click [ Untitled Library 1 ] ; then press the right key to select [ New ] Æ [ Variable ].

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Edit the Tags’ name and data type. Then, click [ Browse…] to display all the OPC Server.

Please select “ OPC1 “ to show up the data items.

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Set up all the parameters; then click [ OK ].

Later on, the tag, “AI_01”, you have just edited will be created.

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Click [ Untitled Library 1]; press the right key selecting [ New ] Æ [ VI ]

Drag the “AI_01” from Pronect Explorer to Block Diagram, and then move “Number
Indicator” from Controls to Front Panel

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Create link with tag “AI_01” and Numeric.

Complete setting process.

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Run the project to confirm the program works normally.

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