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The announcement was made by Morihiko Ohkura, General Manager of the Toyota's Production Engineering Innovation Division during an EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) press briefing at Hannover Messe 2016

The version supports the new features of Sercos version 1.3.1, as well as the recording and analysis of CIP Safety frames, the S/IP protocol and hot-plug procedures in a Sercos III network. Special highlights are the oscilloscope function and a graphical visualization of the Sercos timing.

Microsoft will work with the OPC Foundation to enable industrial Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios through interoperability between the millions of applications and industrial equipment compliant with the OPC UA standard.

Andrew Hird has been named vice president and general manager of the Digital Transformation unit, which was created to help manufacturers harness the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

By: David Zaveski, Antaira No single technology is ideal for every application. ERPS rings have found a niche where they not only excel but may provide the best option.

ODVA’s scope of work for developing the Common Industrial Cloud Interface will encompass two elements: a cloud gateway appliance and an application program interface for the transport of data from the Gateway to the cloud and from the cloud back to the ICS and its devices

The new board seat is an extension of Microsoft’s support for OPC Foundation since the company first became a member in 1995.

IEC-1131 is the first international standard for process control software. By using IEC-1131, a programmer can develop a control algorithm for a particular brand of controller, and import that same program to another brand with minimum modifications, primarily to process input/output subsystems.

Servotronix’s motion-control system for Gleason includes the softMC motion controller and four CDHD drives, running over an EtherCAT bus and controlling three linear axes and one rotary axis

The new control system will integrate traditionally disparate, malt-production processes into a single, networked, EtherNet/IP-based solution to provide plant-wide visibility and actionable data from the malting plant’s production floor to SAB’s top floor.

The OPC Foundation addition of publish/subscribe communication functionality to OPC UA provides the necessary infrastructure to achieve seamless interoperability for IIoT, IoT, and industry4.0 applications and devices.

The OPC Foundation and OMG have developed a technical positioning and FAQ document for usage of both the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and the OMG Data Distribution Service™(DDS) standard.

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.

By Alex Herbert, Kepware Technologies Since implementing the IoT Gateway for KEPServerEX, Faurecia was able to decrease its transparency project from a complicated six-month scope to a functioning solution in just a couple of days.

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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.

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.

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.