Manufacturers are examining different network architectures to drive plant efficiencies, and the OPC UA standard is providing scalable results all the way to the enterprise suite. Though there is ...

Softing Industrial Automation has released dataFEED OPC Suite Version 5.60. The new version expands the proven all-in-one solution for OPC communication and industrial internet of things (IIoT) ...

The updated OPC UA transformer connector driver is available now as part of the Transformers open-source repository.

Exchanging data between Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices and the cloud presents a bewildering array of options. Cloud providers, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google IO, and many ...

OPC UA's scalable security concept. OPC UA has been widely touted as a secure industrial communications technology for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industrie 4.0 applications. In fact, ...

The kind of communication necessary to support the “fourth industrial revolution” demands a protocol able to tie everything together. It’s here today. For some years now, people involved in ...

In many injection molding applications, the user manually sets the mixing ratio of the base material, additives, and masterbatches typically on a separate control unit mounted on the press. This works ...

Leveraging the computing industry’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies, PLCopen and other open standards organizations (including the OPC Foundation) developed an open standards ...