Email Plug-In for OPC Router - License type: Subscription license

Email Plug-In

Email remains one of the simplest and most common notification and alerting methods. The OPC Router can email fault messages, usage values and other production data to multiple recipients in real time. With the Email notification plug-in, you can create your own email templates for various alerting functions and fill them, at precisely definable times, with data from systems connected to the OPC Router. These systems may include PLCs, databases and ERP/MES systems. The Email notification plug-in relies on the SMTP standard.

Sending dynamically filled notification emails

In the picture below, you can see an example of a connection that gets triggered whenever the temperature is equal to or exceeds 80°C. In such a case, an email notification, dynamically filled with predefined data, is sent to a given recipient.

The connection gets triggered (1) whenever the temperature is equal to or exceeds 80°C. The email (2) gets filled with all the requested data. First, a recipient is filtered out (3) from the database (4). An attachment is created and named using the script (5). The system's number (6) is added to the email so that the recipient can quickly identify the technology concerned. The current temperature (7) and the system time (8) are also added to the email.

In the Email transfer object settings (9) on the right, you can see the individual email components. You need to create placeholders. It is these placeholders that will be dynamically filled with values (6, 7, 8) whenever a connection gets triggered.

Configuration

OPC Router's Email plug-in contains the so-called Email transfer object, which is the interface for email configuration. In the picture below, you can see the individual email components to be set.

You need to select a pre-configured email server, the number of recipients, the sender, the subject and the number of attachments. You also have to configure the email contents.