HMUSA 2022 Conference: The Global Production Language – OPC UA Companion Specifications as the Basis of Networked Production

About the presentation
For humans, language is important in order to communicate with each other. Language connects and enables understanding. But what about the machines in an increasingly networked production? How can communication and the exchange of information succeed among different types of machines from different manufacturers? Answer: with a global production language. The challenge here lies in the definition of grammar and vocabulary for the exchange of information from machine to machine and from machine to applications such as MES.

Learning objectives

1. Understand how OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) defines the grammar and OPC UA companion specifications define the vocabulary
2. Understand the difference between domain-specific and cross-domain information model standardization
3. Understand how a universal machine technology interface can leverage adoption of standardization

Registration
Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media, The IMTS 2022 Conference features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so register today. Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation, The IMTS 2022 Conference addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand.

Meet your presenter
Johannes Olbort, a project manager at the VDMA, is responsible for the harmonization activities including OPC UA for machinery. This is done in the context of the global production language based on OPC UA in which more than 600 companies worldwide participate. This makes it an important contact for the international machinery and plant construction industry in matters of OPC UA standardization and networked production. The VDMA's strong international political networking enables it to introduce OPC UA activities into global politics. Before joining the VDMA, Olbort studied industrial engineering, specializing in mechanical engineering and was a research assistant at the Department for Computer Integrated Design of the Technical University Darmstadt.

About the company
Around 3,400 primarily medium-sized member companies in the capital goods industry make the VDMA, the largest industrial association in Europe. The VDMA is a mouthpiece for mechanical and plant engineering. It represents the common economic, technical, and scientific interests of the industry in Germany and around the world. More than 500 VDMA employees worldwide support you with practical services in making the right decisions in your company along the entire value chain.