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Connect Your Brownfield Assets to OPC UA for $200 in 10 Minutes
by Erich Barnstedt, Senior Director & Architect Industrial Standards, Corporate Standards Group, Microsoft Corporation
How a Raspberry Pi CM5, UA Edge Translator, and Web of Things technology can turn legacy industrial assets into modern OPC UA information sources in minutes.
Using the OPC Foundation’s open-source UA Edge Translator, a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5), and standardized Web of Things (WoT) descriptions, you can deploy a complete industrial edge gateway for approximately $200 USD, automatically onboard brownfield assets, and expose them through a standards-based OPC UA information model in less than ten minutes.
OPC UA Adoption by Honeywell Process Solutions
by Bill Lydon, Automation.com
It is clear that OPC UA is transforming the architecture of industrial automation systems and providing a bridge to enterprise systems. By leveraging the Internet Protocol (IP), OPC UA provides an open architecture transparent mechanism to link information throughout an automation system from sensors to enterprise and Internet. More…
GE Invests in the Future with Controls Convergence Strategy
GE Intelligent Platforms announced progress against plans for consolidation of the company’s control platforms to enable the Industrial Internet. The company’s convergence strategy starts with standardization on open systems across the platforms to provide customers with interoperability, secure communications and an optimal user experience (UX). More…
Non-Proprietary Controller-to-Controller Communications
by Bill Lydon, Automation.com
The improvement of manufacturing productivity and quality requires sharing data and synchronizing controllers. This can now be accomplished by using new standards that were jointly developed by PLCopen and the OPC Foundation. More…
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