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The growing OPC Foundation Board of Directors member diversity reflects the expanding role OPC UA plays in OT and IT.

Version 2.3 of the Conformance Test Tool is available from now on to all ETG members.

With the help of OPC UA, L’Oréal is implementing Industry 4.0 concepts, transforming from mass production to personalized production to meet customer preferences.

The OPC Day International 2022, held as a virtual event from April 25-29, 2022, illustrated the broad and growing scope of OPC Foundation standards to achieve manufacturing information integration from field devices to enterprise and cloud.

Industry veteran Tom Weingartner brings Industrial Ethernet experience and broad perspective.

Hamish White, founder and CEO of telecom solution provider Mobilise, explores the potential of 5G SA networks.

Two major concerns that prevent the plant operators from maintaining assets digitally are: lack of normalized field diagnostic data and absence of an IAMS application to predict asset failure.

Advancing open-based systems with service-oriented solutions.

OPC UA is often the best choice for the IIoT implementations characteristic of the fourth industrial revolution. This feature was originally published in the February 2022 edition of InTech magazine.

Automation experts and thought leaders discuss Ethernet on the course to IIoT.

Although the list of considerations to evaluate when planning the design for a secure OPC UA architecture is considerably longer than what is discussed here, these offer a starting point to drive a conversation within your organization to ensure a system that meets the unique requirements of your project.

Major IoT vendors including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SIEMENS leverage secure, standardized information exchange in edge-to-cloud applications based on OPC UA.

Thomas Burke, Global Strategic Advisor at CLPA, looks at the latest advances and trends in TSN-compatible industrial communications.

This shared-source, not open-source, code is based on the nxtControl IEC 61499 runtime engine code donated by Schneider Electric.

To support the spread and interoperability of PROFINET over TSN, PI has launched a PROFINET community stack project.

ODVA announced today that The EtherNet/IP Specification has been enhanced to enable EtherNet/IP networks to support the Ethernet-APL physical layer for process automation.

In an effort to advance interoperable communication in the Integrated Assembly Solutions industry, the VDMA Robotics + Automation association has published the first OPC UA specification for this application area.

The International Society of Automation and the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance are proud to announce that the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has officially designated the IEC/ISA 62443 series of standards as “horizontal,” meaning that they are proven to be applicable to a wide range of different industries.

Accredited FDT Test Sites are now equipped with dtmINSPECTOR5 to automate and streamline testing of new FDT 3.0 WebUI-based DTMs entering the market.

With the new Ethernet-APL communication technology, users in the process industries have gained a strong partner at their side in their quest for higher efficiency and increasing quality. This new form of data transmission will give digitalization a boost in process engineering production environments. Data from all areas of a process system will be connected in a secure and practical manner and made available from a central point. This helps users derive valuable information from vast amounts of data points.