Manufacturers are examining different network architectures to drive plant efficiencies, and the OPC UA standard is providing scalable results all the way to the enterprise suite. Though there is ...

OPC UA including APL, TSN, and 5G for the field: The Field Level Communications initiative reaches a major milestone. Figure 1. FLC initiative developing extensions to the OPC UA framework for field ...

The rise of Industrial IoT in oil and gas operations is bringing rapid change to the ways the industry manages information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).

The connectivity technology OPC UA embedded on a chip instead delivered via a PC server is redefining industrial automation architectures. The OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org) has been working ...

The kind of communication necessary to support the “fourth industrial revolution” demands a protocol able to tie everything together. It’s here today. For some years now, people involved in ...

In many injection molding applications, the user manually sets the mixing ratio of the base material, additives, and masterbatches typically on a separate control unit mounted on the press. This works ...

What does data distribution services, OPC Unified Architecture, and time-sensitive networking have in common? Find out in this Q&A. Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has been at the forefront of ...

Leveraging the computing industry’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies, PLCopen and other open standards organizations (including the OPC Foundation) developed an open standards ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE As part of its push towards Industry 4.0, ...