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Collaboration News

    The number of active collaborations with many information modeling organizations and industrial Ethernet organizations has expanded including collaboration for RFID and EtherCAT.

    Product News

      The following OPC Foundation member companies have product news to announce in this issue: ABB, Arburg, Beckhoff, Exor, GE, IBH, Moxa, and Softing.

      President’s Column

        Welcome to the electrifying world of OPC Foundation 2015. There are a lot of exciting things happening on the technology and marketing perspectives in 2015. We continue to enhance and add additional transports that increase reliability and security for a variety of new hardware and software platforms already available or under development. From a marketing perspective, the OPC Foundation is choreographing many events that include our members evangelizing the OPC message of unified connectivity and interoperability. On behalf of the OPC Foundation staff we thank you for taking time out from your busy schedule to read this edition of the OPC Connect newsletter.

        Coming Events

          Future OPC Foundation events include Hanover Fair, an OPC Interoperability Workshop in North America, and OPC Day Europe. In addition, OPC Foundation member Grid Cloud Systems, Inc. is sponsoring an OpenOpcUa event.

          Compliance Corner

            2015 is all about Certification and this year has started well, with 8 products certified in the OPC Foundation Test Lab in the first 8-weeks. This is exciting. Certification demand is definitely on the increase from end-users, companies, and other organizations. The value of certification is simply too great to overlook. OPC Foundation Corporate Members receive FREE Certification testing as a membership benefit.

            OPC UA for Vertical Data Exchange

              Kromberg & Schubert supplies a wide range of complex wiring systems, mechatronic and plastic parts for the automotive industry. For the implementation of vertical data exchange, Kromberg & Schubert needed a standardized interface for all machines – without having to add further PCs, e.g. as a platform for using OPC servers. The aim was to find a standardized solution that is maintenance free and suitable for long-term use.

              OPC UA Middleware Enables Highly Flexible Food Production

                Weber Maschinenbau GmbH is the world market leader in the field of food slicer technology. In search for a standard which is able to connect machine building and IT, Weber discovered OPC UA. It contains all components which are required for software engineering within machine and plant engineering. Thanks to OPC UA it has been possible to fulfill all requirements and create a future-proof backbone for the machine software.

                News from OPC Events

                  The OPC Foundation participated in a number of recent conferences and exhibitions including the ARC Forum Europe, E-World, and Embedded World.

                  Certification News

                    Certified products in this issue include ICONICS’ GENESIS64 SCADA, version 2.0 of Matrikon’s embedded OPC UA Server, Prosys’ Java SDK, and Unified Automation’s C++ SDK.