OPC UA is Changing the Industrial Landscape
On a recent podcast, Daymon Thompson, senior product manager at Beckhoff Automation, explores how OPC UA is changing the industrial landscape. Topics include OPC UA over MQTT, and OPC UA over UDP.
New OPC UA-based OT/IT Integration Solution
With the new edgeAggregator, Softing offers a flexible, container-based solution for managing complex system architectures in OT/IT integration all the way to edge and cloud applications, featuring OPC UA integration.
Important Use Cases of OPC UA PubSub
It is no secret that the success of industrial automation lies in interoperability and integration of devices, systems, and networks for achieving Industry 4.0 objectives. Utthunga describes their approach using OPC UA PubSub
Further Expansion: Takebishi and ICONICS Partnership
Takebishi Corporation is honored to announce that we have reached an agreement with ICONICS, Inc. to be a global sales partner of Takebishi from September 2022 onwards. Especially in Americas and EMEA regions, ICONICS will be a primary sales partner of Takebishi.
President’s Welcome – June 2022
A warm welcome to you all,
An incredible amount has happened in the last few months. I’ll start immediately to give an overview. There are multiple changes to the Board of Directors, including a new Chairperson. Trade show activities have ramped up from 0 to 100. And collaboration is top-of-mind with more announcements to come later in the year.
OPC Foundation Elects Board of Directors Members
The growing diversity of the OPC Foundation Board of Directors reflects the expanding role OPC UA plays in OT and IT. Dr. Holger Kenn, Microsoft, has been elected as Chairperson.
Collaboration Corner – June 2022
The OPC UA “Global Positioning” joint working group has been created together with AutoID (AIM) and omlox (PI). The OPC UA “Power Consumption Management” working group has been created together with ODVA, PI, and VDMA. And a webinar covering OPC UA and Industrial 5G was held on June 22.
Field Level Communications (FLC) Corner – June 2022
OPC UA FX (Field eXchange) Release Candidate 3 has been published. Join our webinar on July 12-14 to learn more. Together with Avnu, ODVA, CLPA, and PI, a common test plan for TSN has been announced. Also, the UAFX multi-vendor demo made its premiere at Hannover Messe.
OPC Foundation Announces Product Marketplace
The new OPC Marketplace lets you easily search for OPC-enabled products that meet your needs. Whether you are looking for products that implement a particular Companion Specification, or belong to a particular device category: feature filters enable quick sorting of available products.
Compliance Corner – June 2022
Test-case automation has been keeping pace with OPC UA specification releases to make it easy for vendors to build OPC UA-enabled products and ensure compliance. To that end, the OPC Foundation has built an online product catalog of products for end-users to search.