摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a method for operating a welding device (1), comprising a current supply (2), controlled or regulated by means of a control and/or analytical unit (4), for supplying at least one electrode, which may be connected to the welding device (1), with electrical energy, for carrying out a welding process, whereby the control and/or analytical device (4) processes software components and is operated according to the instructions given thereby and according to given settings and the welding device (1) carries out a data exchange with an external component by means of an interface. Internal data in the welding device (1) is processed by an integrated OPC server (31), processing an OPC software component, converted from an internal data format into an OPC standard format and/or recorded by the OPC server using measuring/output means, the data in OPC standard format made available to other components by means of the OPC interface (36) and/or other data in OPC standard format is received from external components and converted into the internal data format of the welding device (1), for the control and/or analytical device (4) by the OPC server.</p> |