UNITED NATIONS OF AUTOMATION!

摘要

The OPC Foundation will continue to expand its role as the 'United Nations of Automation" where different organisations work together to standardise and harmonise, says Stefan Hoppe, President, OPC Foundation. The basic idea for the establishment of the OPC Foundation in 1996 was to create a communication standard based on the Microsoft COM/DCOM architecture of that time 'OLE for Process-Control' was established as the de-facto standard 'of the last mile' for controllers. The new architecture OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is much more than just an operating system independent, neutral platform for data communication: It is the building block for the standardisation of data and interfaces and their secure exchange scaling from the sensor to the cloud(and back) including discovery of devices, onboarding and more. OPC UA achieved international standardisation as IEC 62541 in 2011. First products were available on the market in 2007 and these are stably addressable via today's OPC UA clients - there was no break in the technology.