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The OPC Foundation announced the participation of leading cloud providers and industrial automation companies as part of its ongoing effort to enhance interoperability in IT and cloud environments leveraging OPC UA. The OPC Foundation Cloud Initiative, first launched in April 2024, aims to accelerate interoperability of IT and cloud applications using OPC UA.
The OPC Foundation Cloud Initiative focuses on the following key areas:
Standardized interoperability by accelerating interoperability of IT and cloud applications using OPC UA, e.g., data analytics using AI, industrial data spaces, digital product passports, industrial metaverse, and digital twin applications.
Create a cloud reference architecture to provide best practices, increase standardized data sharing, and generate cloud-optimized profiles for the OPC UA standard.
Semantic data models in the cloud by maintaining OPC UA Information Models (Companion Specifications) in the cloud to utilize the context of data in cloud services.
Establish a new protected identity for OPC UA Cloud eXchange “UACX”.
Establish validation and certification for OPC UA cloud interoperability.
The OPC UA Cloud Initiative steering committee includes cloud suppliers, such as Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and SAP Cloud. Leading industrial automation companies like ABB, Beckhoff, Honeywell, Mitsubishi Electric, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Yokogawa are also actively participating. Twenty-five companies participated in the kickoff meeting of the End-User Counsel, including Boehringer Ingelheim, ContiTech, Danone, Equinor, L’Oreal Operations, Miele, Mondelez, Renault-Group, Japan Tobacco International (JTI), Tetra Pak, and Volkswagen. These end users are working together to create and harmonize their IT and cloud environment requirements, aiming to achieve standardized and harmonized interoperability solutions between providers and users, ultimately reducing integration and runtime costs.
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