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Overview
The “Weihenstephan Standards (WS)” are domain-specific communication interfaces for the food and packaging industry. One of the strengths of the Weihenstephan Standards is their explicit focus on individual domains. The following five domains are currently available:
- WS Pack: Machines and equipment in filling and packaging plants
- WS Food: Machines and equipment in the meat-processing food industry
- WS Bake: Machines and equipment in the bakery industry
- WS Brew: Batch-oriented production within beverage-producing companies, especially breweries
- WS Sweets: Machines and equipment in confectionery production
For each domain, the Weihenstephan Standards provide domain-specific recommendations for data evaluation and reporting on higher-level IT systems.
Technical overview
The aim of this working group is to develop a future-proof IoT interface for the transparent and efficient food and packaging industry based on an OPC UA information model.
The working group first developed the Companion Specification OPC 40600 – OPC UA for Weihenstephan Standards. A significant focus of it is backward compatibility with the models of the Weihenstephan Standards, which have been used in the industry for many years.
Backward compatibility is no longer a requirement. The working group will develop a new multi-part specification with a “real” type-based OPC UA information model.
The intended structure is as follows:
– In the first part “WS Basics”, a generic WS MachineType and commonly usable components will be defined.
– In the domain-specific parts , e.g., WS Sweets, the machines of the respective domain will be defined, e.g., a moulding plant. Naturally, matching types of other CS will be reused as part of the harmonization process.
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