EUROMAP - Europe's Association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers

EUROMAP is the European umbrella association of the plastics and rubber machinery industry which accounts for annual sales of around 17 billion euro and a 41 per cent share of worldwide production. Around 70 per cent of its European output is shipped to worldwide destinations. With global exports of 12 billion euro, EUROMAP’s around 1,000 machinery manufacturers are market leaders with nearly half of all machines sold being supplied by EUROMAP members.

EUROMAP provides technical recommendations for plastics and rubber machines. In addition to standards for machine descriptions, dimensions and energy measurement, interfaces between machines feature prominently. The provision of manufacturer independent interfaces ensures high levels of machine compatibility.

Position to OPC UA

Driven by our members, EUROMAP has set itself the task to standardize these key elements of Industry 4.0.

For machine data communication, the open-source standard OPC UA has established itself in the industry and is widely used. EUROMAP works together with the OPC Foundation in joint working groups on the development of OPC UA Companion Specifications for plastics and rubber machines.

https://www.euromap.org/i40/OPCUA