M4E #66: The ABCs of OPC UA: Everything You Need to Understand
Remember OPC-UA from M4E #18? There we saw a really concise intro to the OPC-UA concept. Now in this video from Real Pars you can go into more detail regarding how the standard works and its uses.
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Remember also that OPC-UA doesn’t follow only a client-server model, but there’s also the option of a publisher-subscriber schema as seen in M4E #35.
You can read here some more uses cases where OPC-UA is useful in a manufacturing environment.
The integration of OPC-UA and TSN is particularly advantageous in industrial automation scenarios where reliable, timely, and deterministic communication is paramount. By leveraging TSN, OPC UA achieves not only its standardization and interoperability goals but also ensures that communication is not only secure and scalable but also adheres to stringent timing requirements. This combined approach is a significant step forward in addressing the evolving needs of modern industrial systems, providing a standardized and interoperable framework for real-time communication in the age of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).