Collaboration - OPC Foundation

List of joined working groups

Logo	Vertical market	Teaser
	Automation	More… PLCopen, as an organization active in Industrial Control, is creating a higher efficiency in your application software development and lowering your life-cycle costs.
	Automation AutoID Supply Chain	More… RFID, but also other AutoID processes, are key technologies for the implementation of the philosophy of industry 4.0. The more important it becomes to integrate these technologies as simple as possible into total solutions. Therefore AIM-D e.V. (Association for Automatic Data Capture, Identification and Mobility), responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, defined standards on the basis of an OPC UA.
	Automation CNC	More… An OPC UA information model has been developed within the cooperation of the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW) and the OPC Foundation, in order to interface and exchange data with CNC systems.
	Automation	More comming soon MTConnect mapped their information modell into OPC UA and thus became portable.
	Automation Plastics and rubber machinery	More… EUROMAP is the European umbrellas association of plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers. It provides technical recommendations for this branch defining besides others mechanical and electrical interfaces between the machines.
	Automation	More… OMAC -the Organization for Machine Automation and Control- was formed to meet this purpose and help manufacturers work together to find new and innovative ways to be successful their production operations. Joint forces between PLCopen, OPCF and the OMAC Packaging Workgroup facilitates a standardized and “off the shelf” PackTag data exchange via OPC UA.
	Automation Process Industry	More… FDI (Field Device Integration): The five leading automation foundations, including the FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communication Foundation, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International and the OPC Foundation, have developed a single common technology solution for FDI. FDI technology manages information from intelligent field devices during their entire lifecycle – from configuration, commissioning and diagnostics to calibration, making one-off solutions for different devices obsolete. With the majority of the members of these respective organizations being OPC suppliers, the standardization of field device information facilitates the development of native OPC UA applications that support the FDI information model.
	Automation Engineering	More… AutomationML (Automation Markup Language) is a neutral data format for the storage and exchange of plant engineering information, which is provided as open standards. Goal of AutomationML is to interconnect the heterogeneous tool landscape of modern engineering tools in their different disciplines, e.g. mechanical plant engineering, electrical design, HMI development, PLC, robot control.
	Automation Fieldbus	More… EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG)
	Automation Fieldbus	More… Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG)
	Automation Fieldbus	More… PROFIBUS – PROFINET International (PI)
	Automation Fieldbus	More… Sercos International (SI)
	Automation Fieldbus	More… IO-Link
	Automation Fieldbus	More comming soon CiA (CAN in Automation)
	Automation Fieldbus	More comming soon CLPA
	Building Automation	More… BACnet International encourages the successful use of the BACnet standard in building automation and control networks. The joined working group of BACnet Interest Group in Europe together with OPC Foundation mapped building automation objects into the OPC UA information model. The efforts facilitates the integration between industrial automation and building automation devices and applications.
	Oil and Gas	More comming soon The SLC (Standards Leadership Council) was formed in 2012 by nine standards organizations serving the oil and gas industry to avoid duplication in development projects through collaboration. Its goals are to assist member organizations in determining business value metrics for standards adoption and maintaining financial sustainability. The Council includes Energistics, MIMOSA, Open Geospatial Consortium, OPC Foundation, PIDX International, Pipeline Open Data Standard, POSC Caesar Association, Professional Petroleum Data Management Association and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
	Oil and Gas	More comming soon DSATS (Drilling System Automation Technical Section), of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), recommends guidelines to allow open and secure communication between rig control systems, applicable surface and down-hole measurements and authorized third parties. Participating OPC suppliers and end-users are developing a comprehensive roadmap for Drilling Systems Automation that will incorporate best practices, lessons learned, standards and solutions. This roadmap or guideline will identify the objects and corresponding attribute/metadata that span all automation components within a drilling system. OPC UA is the communication protocol for connecting these devices and applications.
	Oil and Gas	More comming soon Energistics is a global consortium that facilitates the development, management and adoption of data exchange standards for the upstream oil and gas industry. PRODML (Production Markup Language) is a family of XML and web services-based standards from Energistics and its PRODML Special Interest Group (PRODML SIG). The OPC Foundation is collaborating with Energistics to develop an OPC UA companion specification that provides a mapping of the PRODML data and information models.
	Oil and Gas	More comming soon MDIS is an international industry network group whose primary mission is to optimize the Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) interface of topside systems in oil and gas production. Its members consists of major oil producers and refiners, automation suppliers and DCS vendors. MDIS has selected OPC UA as the protocol standard for MCS and DCS, and is currently developing the architecture and objects that will be mapped into the OPC UA Information model. As with the SLC collaboration above, the Foundation’s engagement with MDIS exposes OPC technology into other organizations with similarly complex information models, resulting in opportunities for expansion into new markets.
	Standardization	More comming soon W3C collaborates together with OPC Foundation to standardize semantic information models.
	Standardization	More comming soon M2M Alliance collaborates together with OPC Foundation to guarantee an end-to-end security environment. The OPC Foundation brings in OPC UA stack: Security for industrial end-to-end solutions on protocol & application level – the stack and spec have been reviewed by German BSI. The M2M Alliance delivers experience on M2M applications (SIM-based), Smartcard projects and Healthcard projects with real world PKI-solutions including the integration of backend systems.
	Standardization	More comming soon M2M Alliance collaborates together with OPC Foundation to guarantee an end-to-end security environment. The OPC Foundation brings in OPC UA stack: Security for industrial end-to-end solutions on protocol & application level – the stack and spec have been reviewed by German BSI. The M2M Alliance delivers experience on M2M applications (SIM-based), Smartcard projects and Healthcard projects with real world PKI-solutions including the integration of backend systems.