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News and Views from the OPC Foundation Search for... Editorial Case Studies Technology News Events Product News Compliance Corner OPC Home News and Views from the OPC Foundation Navigation Menu Navigation Menu Editorial Case Studies Technology News Events Product News Compliance Corner OPC Home President’s Welcome – March 2024 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening – wherever you are in the world! This latest newsletter is addressing EU regulations like Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the OPC UA Security Conference to provide lots of answers. But please learn more about the new demo on the Digital Battery Passport (DBP), news about Digital Twins and DataSpaces and other topics like upcoming working groups like AI. Compliance Corner – March 2024 In this article: successful InterOp Workshop held in March in Phoenix, AZ plus the Open Process Automation Forum gears up to commence certification activities related to the O-PAS standard –mandating OPC UA certification. Field Level Communications Corner – Mar 2024 The FLC (Field Level Communications) Initiative is in the process of launching a second project phase as completion of the Controller-to-Controller (C2C) Minimum Viable System (MVS) approaches. The FLC Initiative’s Project Phase 2 will focus on the Controller-to-Device (C2D) use-case, and will operate for a term of 4 years. OPC UA Security Summit 2024 | Jun 5+6 Join us for the newest event of the OPC Foundation: the OPC UA Security Summit, where we address the pressing need within our community to openly discuss and exchange insights on critical cybersecurity requirements. OPC Day 2024 – International | Jun 17-21 The OPC Foundation will host its fifth iteration of the annual digital event from June 17-21, 2024 with 3 hours per day. Each session will be held twice, in different time zones to serve Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Unified Data Integration and Archiving across Geographically Dispersed Sites In modern industry, seamless communications between OT systems and IT systems are essential for efficiency and safety monitoring. This is where OPC UA comes in, providing a standardized framework for data exchange across various industrial systems. NAONWORKS Enhances Industrial Security with Gateway and OPC UA SDKs from Softing A power plant faced a critical need for a secure and reliable gateway to facilitate data acquisition between a real-time database and nine different DCS’s. NAONWORKS’ Gateway with Softing’s SDK was the solution. Crucially, it ensures individual access control and configuration rights as well as user authentication and implements effective data encryption. Automation Solutions Implemented 3 Months Earlier with DeviceXPlorer OPC Server Nittoku is known as the leading company in the manufacturing of coil winding machines and winding solutions. Seeking a solution which could support vendor-specific protocols from a wide range of equipment makers, Nittoku deployed DeviceXPlorer OPC Server (DxpSERVER), the OPC-supported industrial communication software from Takebishi. OPC UA Cases: Exposing Data from Common Non-Control Device Sources In this written and video tutorial, learn from two user applications how to integrate non-control system data such as wireless environment sensors and network/FTP CSV files into OPC UA clients and servers, without writing any code. Matrikon – Product News Q1 2024 Learn about: Matrikon Data Broker Adapters to aggregate non-OPC UA data sources; voting for Product of the Year; the Matrikon OEM (MOEM) Program; and Matrikon Data Tech Day set for May 8th in Houston, TX – you are invited. 1 2 3 … 49 Next » Sponsors Editions Editions Select Month March 2024 December 2023 September 2023 June 2023 March 2023 December 2022 September 2022 June 2022 March 2022 December 2021 September 2021 June 2021 March 2021 December 2020 September 2020 June 2020 March 2020 December 2019 September 2019 June 2019 March 2019 December 2018 October 2018 August 2018 June 2018 April 2018 February 2018 December 2017 October 2017 August 2017 June 2017 April 2017 February 2017 December 2016 September 2016 June 2016 March 2016 December 2015 September 2015 June 2015 March 2015 December 2014 November 2014 September 2014 June 2014 Popular Articles Analyzing OPC UA Communications with Wireshark Should I Use OPC UA or MQTT or AMQP? A Beginner’s Guide to OPC OPC UA + MQTT = A Popular Combination for IoT Expansion OPC UA in the Reference Architecture Model RAMI 4.0 Contact Us OPC Foundation Website Contributed...