Data communication
OPC UA for image processing
The VDMA Machine Vision department and the OPC Foundation want to develop a Companion Specification for the integration of machine vision systems into data communication via OPC UA - and have signed a corresponding declaration of intent.
The decision was preceded by an international study led by the VDMA IBV last summer. Its aim was to identify which standards are important in order to prepare the industry for the future. "Camera interfaces and standards for the communication and networking of various image processing components within the system are available and make the work of system integrators much easier," explains Dr. Horst Heinol-Heikkinen, Managing Director of Asentics and board member of the VDMA IBV. "What is missing is a generic interface for image processing systems at the application level." VDMA IBV and OPC Foundation now want to tackle this issue with the OPC UA Machine Vision Companion Specification. Initial discussions have begun on which information, data, functions and services should be integrated into a production network and mapped in OPC UA.
"We want to make industrial image processing fit for Industry 4.0 and the factory of the future," comments Dr Klaus-Henning Noffz, CEO of Silicon Software and responsible for standardization topics on the VDMA IBV Executive Board. "Our goal is the simple connection of image processing systems to production control and IT systems via OPC UA." Stefan Hoppe, Vice President of the OPC Foundation, confirms this: "VDMA IBV has recognized the potential of OPC UA. The implementation of the common specification will make the connection of machine vision systems to the control world, but also directly to the IT world, easier and more secure."
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