The OPC Foundation will host its fifth iteration of the annual digital event from June 17-21, 2024 with 3 hours per day. Each session will be held twice, in different time zones to serve Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
In modern industry, seamless communications between OT systems and IT systems are essential for efficiency and safety monitoring. This is where OPC UA comes in, providing a standardized framework for data exchange across various industrial systems.
A power plant faced a critical need for a secure and reliable gateway to facilitate data acquisition between a real-time database and nine different DCS’s. NAONWORKS’ Gateway with Softing’s SDK was the solution. Crucially, it ensures individual access control and configuration rights as well as user authentication and implements effective data encryption.
Nittoku is known as the leading company in the manufacturing of coil winding machines and winding solutions. Seeking a solution which could support vendor-specific protocols from a wide range of equipment makers, Nittoku deployed DeviceXPlorer OPC Server (DxpSERVER), the OPC-supported industrial communication software from Takebishi.
In this written and video tutorial, learn from two user applications how to integrate non-control system data such as wireless environment sensors and network/FTP CSV files into OPC UA clients and servers, without writing any code.
Learn about: Matrikon Data Broker Adapters to aggregate non-OPC UA data sources; voting for Product of the Year; the Matrikon OEM (MOEM) Program; and Matrikon Data Tech Day set for May 8th in Houston, TX – you are invited.
This time my greeting does not start with a thoughtful look at crazy things happening in the world of standardization -but with something unexpectedly very pleasant. In preparing for the SPS trade fair, we noticed that the first OPC UA workgroup meeting was held on 3-7 November 2003 and that we were, therefore, celebrating 20 years of OPC UA standardization. We quickly bought confetti cannons and had a lot of fun at the OPC Foundation booth. Actually, come to think of it, it was crazy!
In light of Mr. Bryant’s upcoming retirement at the end of the year, the OPC Foundation would like to thank Mike Bryant for his outstanding 22 years in his role as Secretary of the OPC Foundation.
This year we saw several accomplishments. We made 3 releases of the Compliance Test Tool (CTT). OPC UA FX testing made big strides. We have also released new or enhanced testing for companion specifications including MDIS, PA-DIM and Weighing. Finally, we completed audits of all accredited certification test labs of the OPC Foundation.
Over 40 participants have participated in the kick-off meeting of a new working group to develop an I/O Device Profile for OPC UA. Finally, the FLC Initiative will start phase 2 of the project at the beginning of 2024 with a focus on Controller-to-Device (C2D).