Maintworld 1/2018
The Use and Misuse of Vibration Analysis // The Industrial Iot Maturity Model // Condition Monitoring in Maritime Applications // Effective Backlog Management
The Use and Misuse of Vibration Analysis // The Industrial Iot Maturity Model // Condition Monitoring in Maritime Applications // Effective Backlog Management
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CMMS<br />
ENSURING A SMOOTH<br />
TRANSITION from OPC<br />
CLASSIC to OPC UA<br />
Now, more than ever, industrial firms need to make<br />
sense of vast quantities of data having a critical impact<br />
on their performance. To support the variety<br />
of applications necessary<br />
today, information must be<br />
delivered with context so<br />
it can be understood and<br />
used in various ways by a<br />
variety of people. Growing<br />
adoption of the Industrial<br />
Internet of Things (IIoT) and<br />
Industrie 4.0 is also driving<br />
requirements for open and<br />
secure connectivity between<br />
devices and edge-to-cloud<br />
solutions.<br />
DAREK KOMINEK,<br />
Sr. Consulting Manager<br />
at Matrikon<br />
ORGANIZATIONS that deploy the OPC<br />
Unified Architecture (UA) will be able to<br />
better leverage plant floor-to-enterprise<br />
communications as a vehicle to participate<br />
in IIoT applications. OPC UA is a<br />
standard for moving information vertically<br />
through the enterprise of multi-vendor<br />
systems, as well as providing interoperability<br />
between devices on different industrial<br />
networks from different vendors.<br />
This article provides a brief overview<br />
of the key features of OPC UA and a<br />
comparison with the legacy OPC Classic<br />
standard, and outlines the motivation for<br />
upgrading to OPC UA based on a managed,<br />
secure and seamless migration path.<br />
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