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With currently 37 members, the number of founding members in November 2019 has more than quintupled even before its first birthday. Clear tendency: More and more members are joining every week.

Learn from an interview with Karl Deiretsbacher of the OPC Foundation about Companion Specifications; the different types of Companion Specifications that exist; what Joint Working Groups are; and how the OPC Foundation guides the development and maintenance of Companion Specifications.

Essential for the convergence of IT and OT, FLC is also important for upgrading legacy systems.

Optimizing mobile and remote operations in the new era of automation.

New toolkits auto-enable OPC UA capabilities–no additional coding required.

Learn from an interview with Christopher Anhalt of Softing about markets, adoption drivers, competing standards, the horizontal and vertical integration of IT and OT, companion specification use cases, green-field and brown-field… and many other things relevant to use cases that have made OPC UA so successful.

After a lengthy period of connector manufacturers pursuing various approaches with regard to M12 PushPull locks, IEC 61076-2-010 is now finally bringing a system that is consistent across the industry.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Industrial 5G market reveals that 5G technology is still evolving, with new features added with each new specification release.

The new collaboration aims to enable a seamless user experience for mutual customers and partners.

The comprehensive guide is now available for designers, integrators and installers.

The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the new "Laboratory Agnostic Device Standard" (LADS).

With Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) creating opportunities for Operational Technology (OT) network innovation, Ethernet Alliance seeks to tap into building- and industrial-automation expertise.

CLPA established a global strategic advisor role, which will accelerate the construction of Smart Factories by increasing the reach of CC-Link IE TSN.

Microchip’s LAN8770 is an IEEE® 802.3bw-compliant 100BASE-T1 PHY in a 5 x 5 mm package for space-constrained automotive applications.

Learn from an interview with Jouni Aro of Prosys OPC how developers and end users alike can get started using OPC UA. Jouni shares information about off-the-shelf products, software development toolkits, open source options, training and support, as well as product certification.

OPC Days 2020, a virtual event held June 22- 25, provided the latest information about OPC UA (Open Platform Communications United Architecture), the protocol-agnostic framework for the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 initiatives.

HELUKABEL is convinced of the potential of the new transmission technology and has been involved in the SPE Industrial Partner Network since November 2019.

By Bill Lydon Open system options continue to emerge from nontraditional suppliers and standards groups, and this is a trend that I expect will accelerate and enable multivendor interoperability at all levels of the system architecture.

Both wired and wireless networks have been undergoing a significant evolution during the past decade, enabling greater opportunities to those who leverage the advancements in the next one.

By Bill Lydon The Process Automation industry has been heavily impacted by the influx of new technologies and, as we enter the next decade, several organizations are providing roadmaps in order to help process automation companies enable the best practices to leverage these technologies and drive competitiveness and productivity forward.