OPC UA - a must for the industry (Part 1)
OPC UA is regarded as the new communication standard for industrial automation. But why do we actually need a new communication technology in industrial automation?
Articles and background information on the topic
OPC UA is regarded as the new communication standard for industrial automation. But why do we actually need a new communication technology in industrial automation?
If the OPC UA on TSN solution is to establish itself as 'the' standard, there are still some tasks to be solved. In particular, the issue of network configuration must not only be solved, but also implemented in a user-friendly way.

Janz Tec offers the MDE:connect hardware-software solution package for flexible machine data acquisition in digitalized production.
IIoT and Industry 4.0 are set to revolutionize value creation and business processes. However, Klaus-Dieter Walter and Dr. Hans Egermeier are certain that a lot still needs to happen in companies in order to benefit from this.
IoT wireless gateways for wireless connection to cloud solutions - Turck is exhibiting such a product at the trade fair for the first time this year.

The so-called fieldbus war has been going on for a good 30 years now; users have to deal with around 20 different fieldbus variants! Will this change with TSN plus OPC UA? The negotiations are in full swing!

How quickly and with what consistency is the real-time Ethernet standard TSN being adopted? The TSN/A Conference on September 26 and 27, 2018 explored this question. Over 500 experts learned about the status quo - a review in pictures.

Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is being touted as the future communication standard for industry, the automotive sector and the consumer world. Over 500 participants at the TSN/A Conference at the end of September learned about the status quo of the Ethernet real-time variant.
Companies are still finding it difficult to implement batch size 1 as part of Industry 4.0. A multi-agent system that can be integrated into RAMI 4.0 and also maps the model of the Industry 4.0 component can provide support here.
Conventional sensor-based diagnostics provide information about production faults without drawing any conclusions about their causes. This is not the case with an adaptive diagnostic system that uses the machine operator's experience and offers situation-specific solutions.