Industrial leaders are under pressure to modernize operations, strengthen cyber resilience, and unlock the value of AI — yet most organizations remain constrained by fragmented systems and inconsistent data. This session reveals why OPC UA has emerged as the strategic foundation for secure interoperability, enabling companies to generate structured, contextualized, AI ready data directly from their assets.
You’ll hear how global initiatives — including the OPC Field Level Communication Initiative, VDMA’s Companion Specifications, the NEMA 100 effort, and guidance from FBI Cyber — are converging on a shared semantic layer that standardizes how industrial equipment communicates. This shift eliminates integration friction, reduces lifecycle cost, and accelerates digital transformation across plants and fleets.
Air Liquide returns with their update, “One Year Later”, following their ARC Forum 2025 presentation, sharing measurable business outcomes from adopting OPC UA across their operations.
By standardizing the behavior of motors, valves, instrumentation, drives, and other critical components, this collaboration eliminates integration friction and provides the high-quality, AI-ready input necessary for autonomous operations. You might say it covers “everything from the iron to the cloud”. Attendees will gain a strategic roadmap for leveraging these interoperable profiles to reduce complexity, enhance cyber-resilience, and accelerate the adoption of Industrial AI at scale.