ProtoLink was chosen by a major oil production company to deliver an object-oriented solution for their
fluid transfer process in a west Texas field. The solution developed by ProtoLink is comprised
of custom user-defined functions executing on a PLC and multiple derived Wonderware ArchestrA
templates. The template attributes are automatically mapped with the PLC I/O based on the object's
type and version. This allows the user to simply deploy a combination of a PLC object and an
ArchestrA object to place equipment into operation. As part of this project, ProtoLink also
developed a custom C# application that communicates with ArchestrA through its .NET interface.
This tool reads the names and types of the field attributes and user-defined attributes (UDAs)
as part of a validation process.
