OPC Foundation Podcast

Peter Seeberg talks to Xueli An, Research Manager and Industry Development Specialist at Huawei Technologies about integrating OPC UA and 5G.

Peter Seeberg talks to Stefan Hoppe, President + Executive Director of the OPC Foundation about what happened in 2024 and what is planned for 2025

Peter Seeberg talks to Vatsal Shah, Founder & CEO Litmus about Unlocking & Activating Industrial Data

Peter Seeberg talks to Enrico Noack and Andreas Schuette from Airbus Defense and Space about the use of OPC UA in rockets, specifically, in the TEXUS research rocket.

Peter Seeberg talks to Holger Kenn, Chairperson of the Board of the OPC Foundation about the OPC UA for AI Working Group

Peter Seeberg talks to Tom Schneider from TRUMPF about the OPC UA for Machine Tools Companion Specification initiated and coordinated by the German Machine tools builders' association, VDW and how this relates to UMATI.

Peter Seeberg talks to Smitha Rao, co-founder of Utthunga, about the current landscape of OPC UA in India and around the world.

Matthias Arnold talks about OPC UA as the basis for the “Laboratory and Analytical Device standard.

Markus Heintel from Siemens talks about integrating secure elements with OPC UA security, specifically how ISO / IEC TS 30168 "Internet of Things - Generic Trust Anchor API for IIoT Devices" can support this challenge.

Paul Hunkar talks about the 62443 cybersecurity standard for operational technology in automation and control systems and how it applies to OPC UA.

Sven Goldstein from Beckhoff Automation and Sebastian Friedl from Interop4X FV explain the reasons behind, the functioning of and use cases for OPC UA File Transfer. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org.

Erich Barnstedt, Chief Architect, Standards, Consortia & Industrial IoT, Azure Edge & Platform at Microsoft, talks about building the Industrial Metaverse with OPC UA. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org.

Sebastian Käbisch is Industrial IoT Expert at Siemens. Sebastian talks about the potential of having OPC UA, W3C Web of Things and ChatGPT all work together. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org

Harirajan Padmanabhan is Founder and CEO of hpad, Incorporate talks about mental models, deep enterprise architecture, and digital transformation and how these relate to OPC UA.

Rainer Drath is professor at the Pforzheim university, AutomationML architect and author of four AutomationML books, as well as board member of the AutomationML Association. He talks about the interoperability technologies AutomationML, Asset Administration Shell and OPC UA and how they fit together.

Dieter Hess the co-founder and managing partner of Codesys shares amongst other things how his customers work with the OPC UA companion specs.

Karl-Heinz Niemann of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover talks about energy efficiency in general, about OT-Security, data formats, energy management systems, and about a consolidated energy model to be made available via OPC UA.

Frank Fengler, Head of Cybersecurity for Measurement and Analytics at ABB, explains the Process Automation Device Information Model is, how it was developed, what problem it solves, who benefits, and why they selected OPC UA as their base architecture. https://copacontrol.org/de/ If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org

Bob Hagenau, CEO at CPLANE.ai, explains what COPA stands for, what role he plays in it and how it fits with OPC UA.

Espen Krogh, CEO of Prediktor talks the structural role OPC UA plays in the Energy Transition.

Stefan Hoppe / President of the OPC Foundation, talks about the vision, its members and board members, he gives a technology, certification, FLC and collaborations update, introduces the new OPC UA Cloud initiative and shares his plans for 2022.

Henning Mersch from Beckhoff shares his experience dealing with OPC UA companion specifications, and proposes, how persons with different roles may interact each in their own way while working with companion specifications.

Our host, Peter Seeberg from asimovero.AI gives an introduction into artificial intelligence and explains how OPC UA is the perfect match for making AI come true in industry.

Andreas Hennecke, from Pepperl and Fuchs gives an introduction into process plants going digital, he talks about robust communication and its implications for technicians, and he explains Ethernet-APL and how it relates to OPC UA.

Brad Biddle, OPC Foundation Counsel, will talk about antitrust, Intellectual property rights, patent licensing, and the different roles open standards and open source code play.

Andreas Wohlfeld from TRUMPF and Götz Görisch from VDW talk about the OPC UA for Machine Tools Companion Specification initiated and coordinated by the German Machine tools builders' association, VDW and how it relates to UMATI. They explain the scope, use-cases and what they achieved so far.

Heiko Herden explains, what VDMA is, why OPC UA for Machinery was needed, the goal of the working group, the existing and upcoming results and how you as a listener may become involved.

Randy Armstrong, Director IT Operations as well as Chair of the OPC UA Security Working Group, talks about OPC UA Security. Randy gives an introduction to security, talks about the Security Working Group, the process for handling security vulnerabilities and security and open source.

Steffan Sørenes shares his experience, implementing and scaling OPC UA, bumps he has run intro, benefits of using OPC UA as an open standard architecture, open sourcing OPC UA as well as a roadmap going forward with regards to using OPC UA in Equinor.

Alyssa Mallkowsky from Siemens talks to Georg Biehler, also from Siemens, and Clark Case from Rockwell about the first FLC specification. Clark Case and Georg Biehler cover achievements, the creation process, the parties involved, the background, focus and features of the FX standard.

Don Bartusiak, President of Collaborative Systems Integration, talks about, what it is, they are trying to solve, today’s lack of interconnectivity between products from different suppliers, the OPAF members, the OPAS standard, and why they have selected OPC UA for their Connectivity Framework / OCF.

Jim Luth, System Architect with Schneider Electric, and CTO of the OPC Foundation, talks about role as OPC Foundation CTO, about OPC UA revisions and versions, about MQTT, Big Data, and where he sees OPC UA to become adopted.

Alexander Allmendinger from the OPC Foundation talks about the certification process, the preparation, how to reach compliance, the actual testing, what is being tested, how to get started, and the tools available to support you in this process, plus what happens if during testing any issues are found.

Mithun Katti and Joerg Wende from IBM talk about IBM Industry 4.0 solutions, their Plant Service Bus, and the role OPC-UA plays in the IBM reference architecture for manufacturing, specifically the Connect for Manufacturing App.

Paul Hunkar from OPC Foundation explains, why certification is important, he talks about end-user and vendor demand for certification, about the cost involved, and about who can get products certified and how.

Max Walter from Siemens, in his role as the chairperson of the Joint Working Safety OPC & PI, gives a quick introduction into functional safety, he explains, how OPC UA deals with safety, he gives some example use cases, talks about key features, prerequisites, certification, and how OPC UA Safety will become the one and only safety protocol.

Peter Lutz, Director Field Level Communications from the OPC Foundation, provides background information about the FLC initiative, he talks about goals, parties involved, committees, working groups and he shares relevant use cases, specifically extending those OPC UA has been covering so far.

Thomas Usländer talks about major trends in smart manufacturing, he explains what Smart Factory Web is, how it relates to the German Industrie 4.0 and other initiatives, and why they you chose OPC UA as their underlying architecture. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org" https://opcfoundation.org/ If you, dear listener, want to learn more about VDMA and their OPC UA initiatives, you can visit their website at opcua.vdma.org

Marcel de Grutter, Executive Director OPEN-SCS, explains, what the OPEN-SCS does, what serialization is, he talks about developments driven forward by COVID-19, and the role OPC-UA plays as the base communication architecture. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org" https://opcfoundation.org/ If you, dear listener, want to learn more about VDMA and their OPC UA initiatives, you can visit their website at opcua.vdma.org

Erich Barnstedt from Micorsoft explains, what Industrial IoT is, what role Microsoft plays in Industrial IoT, he talks about open source, about their involvement with the OPC Foundation, Microsoft products with OPC UA, the Azure Industrial IoT Platform, security, and the future for OPC UA within Microsoft. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org" https://opcfoundation.org/ If you, dear listener, want to learn more about VDMA and their OPC UA initiatives, you can visit their website at opcua.vdma.org

Fabian Anzmann from the Industrial Association of House, Heating and Kitchen Technology and Holger Burgtorf from Küppersbusch give us an introduction to commercial kitchens, they tell us, what role the Internet of Things may play in the concept of the connected kitchen, and they share all interesting things there are to know about the OPC UA Companion Standard for Commercial Kitchen Equipment.

Olaf Wilmsmeier from Harting and Peter Altes from AIM explain, what the AIM organization is, they talk about the role of AutoID in the context of Industrial IoT, about the motivation for AIM to consider a common interface for AutoID devices, why they chose OPC UA as their basis, its status and synergies between wireless sensor networks and AutoID.

Veronika Schmid-Lutz and Rüdiger Fritz from SAP tell us, what value SAP sees in OPC UA. They talk about Business Context Driven Control Loops and the benefit of Service Oriented Architecture on the shop floor.

Andreas Faath tells us, what VDMA is, what OPC UA Companion Specifications they have been working on, how that process works, he talks about the companies involved, what the resulting contents of such a specification looks like, and how you as a listener may become involved.

Karl explains, what Companion Specifications are, he talks about the OPC UA basics for these specifications, he explains the different types of Companion Specifications that exist, what Joint Working Groups are and how the OPC Foundation guides the development and maintenance of Companion Specifications.

Christopher Anhalt from Softing answer questions about markets, adoption drivers, competing standards, horizontal and vertical integration of IT and OT, as well as green field and brown field use-cases.

Jouni Aro will tell us what options you as a listener have for implementing OPC UA into your offering. He’ll talk about off-the-shelf products, software development toolkits, open source, training, support, product certification… and many other things will help you get started and that have made OPC UA what it is and why is has been so successful!

Darek Kominek will address the IT-OT gap, talk about endpoints and protecting against common hacker / malware attacks, security in different industries, and how OPC UA protects against common hacker / malware attacks … many other features of “built-in” security that have made OPC UA what it is and why is has been so successful! Any questions or ideas? Mail to: office@opcfoundation.org

Welcome to the second edition of the OPC Foundation Podcast - The Home of Industrial Interoperability. In this edition Uwe Steinkrauss from Unified Automation talks about the technology behind OPC UA: the architecture, information modelling, communication concepts, protocols, scalability, re-use, several other technical aspects that together make OPC UA what it is and why is so successful. Any questions or ideas? Mail to: office@opcfoundation.org

Stefan Hoppe, the president of the OPC Foundation, sets the direction of this new podcast. He tells us what OPC is, what the OPC Foundation does, and how to become a member. He gives a quick insight into the technology and talks about collaborations with other international organizations. Many other topics, including why he decided to start broadcasting a podcast. Questions? Mail to: office@opcfoundation.org