Digital Twin Consortium / OPC Foundation
The digital twin in production
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) and the OPC Foundation have now announced a collaboration to accelerate the development and adoption of digital twin technologies.
Stefan Hoppe, President of the OPC Foundation, says: "The OPC Foundation manages the global standard for secure industrial interoperability for information modeling and data exchange, which in this relationship with DTC will benefit anyone who wants to create semantically identical digital twins."
© Sebastian Priamowicz, cp-imacThe DTC and the OPC Foundation have already worked closely together on several open source reference implementation projects on GitHub and have now agreed to work even more closely together. "We are excited to be working with the OPC Foundation," says Dan Isaacs, GM and CTO of DTC. "By working together, we will influence interoperability standards and processes that will drive the use of digital twins in manufacturing across many industries."
The DTC and the OPC Foundation will work together on the following topics
- on standardization requirements
- achieving interoperability through harmonization of technology components and other elements
- aligning work in horizontal areas for adoption in vertical areas and use cases, Proof of Concepts and Value Innovation Platforms (VIP) programs, including:
- Technology, terminology and taxonomy
- Security and trustworthiness
- Conceptual, informational, structural and behavioral models
- Enabling technologies, such as simulation and AI
- Technology stack across the lifecycle of the digital twin
- Development of case studies
- Development and understanding of open source reference implementations
Stefan Hoppe, President of the OPC Foundation, says: "Our collaboration with DTC strengthens the ability of users to quickly and accurately model and interact with any aspect of data in any digital twin. The digital twins will be fully compatible with the OPC UA framework used in the runtime components in the operational domain."
Both consortia will exchange information through regular meetings, joint contributions, seminars, open source projects and other activities.
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