IoT and communication
Are OPC UA and TSN set?
Are OPC UA and TSN the two communication standards on which factory automation will be based in the future? At SPS IPC Drives 2016, there were some innovations on this topic.
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"The" TSN Congress
The TSN/A Conference will take place next Wednesday and Thursday in Stuttgart. Together with the AVNU Alliance, Computer&AUTOMATION is organizing this international conference on the real-time extensions of the Ethernet standard.

Commercial license for OPC UA .NET Standard Stack
In June 2016, the OPC UA .NET standard stack developed by Microsoft was made available as an open source project on GitHub. Softing is now planning to offer a commercial license for this stack from the fourth quarter of 2017.

"The" TSN Congress
Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is a real-time extension of standard Ethernet. The effects on all sectors - from industry and automotive to the consumer world - will be the focus of the TSN/A Conference on September 20-21, 2017 in...

Companion Specification is ready
The Ethernet Powerlink Standardization Group (EPSG) and the OPC Foundation have developed a Companion Specification for OPC UA and Powerlink. It will be published on the EPSG website and presented at the EPSG stand at embedded world 2017.

OPC UA plus TSN
OPC UA TSN as a standardized protocol for communication in the Industrial Internet of Things up to the control level: this is the goal now being pursued by a consortium of IT and automation companies.

OPC UA on Auto-Pilot!
OPC UA is to achieve the status of a globally recognized standard for the Industrial Internet of Things IIoT by 2019 at the latest - according to the plans of the OPC Foundation. The press conference at the trade fair provided an update on the...
How quickly is TSN being adopted in the factory?
With Time Sensitive Networks - TSN for short - a new standard in industrial communication technology is on the horizon. Over 160 experts attended the 'Industrial Ethernet TSN' congress in September 2016 to find out about the status quo of the...

Support for OPC UA applications
Microsoft provides the .NET Standard OPC UA Stack as an open source reference.

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.

