OPC UA and Powerlink
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.
The Companion Specification describes how user data can be exchanged between the Powerlink and OPC UA protocols. The aim is to achieve completely interface-free communication from the sensor level to the ERP level and into the cloud.
At SPS IPC Drives 2015, the EPSG and OPC Foundation announced an intensive collaboration in a joint memorandum of understanding. Since then, technical teams from both user organizations have been working on the Companion Specification, which has now been completed.
At embedded world 2017 (stand 133, hall 3A), the EPSG intends to show how information can be transferred directly from a Powerlink slave to higher-level systems or other system components. In addition, a live demonstration will show how Powerlink is implemented with Codesys on a Zynq 7000 All Programmable SoC from Xilinx. In addition, EPSG technology partners will be presenting integration solutions for Powerlink masters and slaves as well as for OpenSafety nodes.
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