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Powering Industry 4.0 & Industrial IoT
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. -
Reshape the Automation Pyramid
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. -
OPC UA is Enhanced for Publish-Subscribe (Pub/Sub)
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. -
AMS releases interoperable PDK for analog specialty processes
Process design kit (PDK) enables customers to design complex ICs with multiple EDA vendor tools. -
AGSL to protect software at TAQA oil field
TAQA’s UK operations include five platforms that produce from 13 fields spread across the Northern North Sea and the Central North Sea.