Via REST to DataSpaces and Metaverse
In recent years, the OPC Foundation has positioned OPC UA over MQTT as a standardized implementation of edge/cloud communication up to IoT providers such as AWS and Azure.
Controllers with OPC UA server
Baumüller relies on OPC UA as an interface for the transfer of data between different participants, such as visualization or edge controllers, and has developed the ProDataX software tool for communication via the control technology to the drive level.
read more...Controllers with OPC UA server
Baumüller has implemented the areas of data access, security and methods within the standardized OPC UA interface and provides an OPC UA server for its controllers with the ProDataX software tool.
read more...The benefits of cooperation and common standards
There is no networking without common standards. As Head of Strategic Alliances at Kuka, Dr. Christian Liedtke is responsible for this special form of cooperation. He spoke to Daniel Schilling about partners, standards and why cooperation does not rule out competition.
read more...OPC UA is becoming the standard
When we come across the term "smart factory" today, we always come across the topic of "machine-to-machine (M2M) communication".
read more...M2M communication in production
Self-organizing production
Process optimization, flexibility, networking: Industry 4.0 promises many advantages. However, this is also accompanied by increasing demands on PLC systems for plant and mechanical engineering.
read more...MES software with OPC-UA connection
An OPC UA machine connection in combination with a powerful MES from Proxia allows Ostlangenberg Fertigungstechnik to record all relevant machine and operating data from its machining centers and visualize it in real time.
read more...Industry on the way to Industry 4.0
Umati becomes the global language of production
The VDMA and the VDW want to jointly promote the use and dissemination of OPC UA standards for mechanical engineering under the Umati brand.
read more...MVTec drives standardization forward
Process automation and image processing grow together
MVTec is actively involved in the standardization of machine vision. This includes the GenICam standard, whose association GenICam Standard Group is meeting in Italy in October, as well as work on the OPC UA Companion Specification for Machine Vision.
read more...Interview with Stefan Hoppe, OPC Foundation
"You can hardly refuse OPC UA"
Countless companies and working groups are working on advancing data exchange with OPC UA. Andreas Mühlbauer spoke to Stefan Hoppe, President of the OPC Foundation, about the status of development and the further spread of OPC UA.
read more...Uniform communication standard in the IoT
OPC UA over TSN will become the uniform communication standard in the Industrial IoT. The standardization and further development of OPC UA for the field level will take place under the umbrella of the OPC Foundation. This fulfills a long-standing wish of the market: There is a manufacturer-independent and interface-free solution for communication in industry.
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