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The OPC Foundation has committed resources to moderate/maintain and extend the technology to keep pace with technology changes in the industry as well as the extensions to the OPC UA architecture and corresponding companion specification.

As IIoT technology develops, challenges on its adoption are beginning to dissipate.

Courses include OPC Workshops for OPC Classic and Cyber Security for OPC.

SignalFire, a telemetry equipment manufacturer for the oil and gas market, has shipped their 20,000th unit while maintaining a low rate of field-failure

By Bill Lydon, Editor ODVA believes EtherNet/IP is ideally positioned for the fourth industrial revolution and the world of integrated cyber physical systems. This article summarizes ODVA's initiatives for the process industries, Industry 4.0 and field device configuration/integration.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Many industry experts believe OPC UA is an enabling technology for the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. OPC UA enables multivendor multiplatform secure reliable interoperability for moving data and information from the embedded world to the enterprise.

FLIR Intelligent Transportation Systems develops a wide variety of hardware and software solutions for vehicular/pedestrian traffic video detection and monitoring. Many of these systems rely on the open standard OPC UA to obtain information from the different subsystems.

The market increasingly demands individualized products. Product life cycles are getting shorter and average lot sizes are getting smaller. Considering this, cost efficient production in a globalized and resource limited environment requires a highly flexible (IT-) infrastructure that also works well in cross-enterprise networks. It requires a reshaped automation data pyramid.

Besides the existing Request/Response mechanism, which requires a “standing” connection between an OPC Client (data consumer) and an OPC Server (data provider), OPC UA will be enhanced with an additional communication schema following the principles of Publish-Subscribe.

AutomationML is a data exchange standard for engineering data standardized in IEC 62814.

The new edition is available for comments until April 8, 2016.

In 2014, the global market for thermoelectric modules was valued at US$364.1 mn and is estimated to reach a value of US$829.5 mn by the end of 2023

Power Construction is using the environmental monitoring system to collect and transmit temperature and humidity data in a 27-story hospital in Chicago.

Almost every industrial plant will end up with a mix of wired and wireless technology. Ultimately, choose the solution that makes sense.

By Gerrit Boysen and Mariam Coladonato, Phoenix Contact The requirements placed on a firewall in a production zone are different from those in the office world. Therefore, using an industrial firewall with a NAT function can support the individual, simple segmentation of networks.

Murata’s ISA100 Wireless Stack & Communication Module has achieved ISA100 Wireless Certification

By Mike Hannah, Rockwell Automation Legacy networks with only a small number of I/O modules and other devices are being replaced with complex networks that have hundreds of I/O modules. EtherNet/IP features an active infrastructure and can accommodate an almost infinite number of nodes to give manufacturers optimal flexibility when either designing their networks at the onset or expanding them in the future.

By Shannon R. Foos and Kevin Zomchek, Rockwell Automation IP connectivity from the industrial control system through the gateway – either IO-Link or HART – closes the last meter to provide connectivity to devices that are sitting in the field. These two networks allow industrial operations to bridge to an IP network as seamlessly as possible, making today’s plants more future-ready for the industrial IoT.

By Jonathan Wilkins, European Automation The increasing availability of inexpensive, wireless sensors now lets facilities measure safety, regulatory compliance, equipment reliability and energy efficiency without breaking the bank.

The video titled, "A Guide to Wi-Fi and Frequency Hopping Antenna Selection," delves into the different types of antennas and characteristics to keep in mind, such as the antenna’s pattern, gain, and polarity.