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Interoperability holds a lot of importance in Industrial Automation. With a strong purpose to meet this requirement OPC Foundation worked to create OPC and OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specification. This state of the art specification is used as a framework within the thesis to enable to use its rich information modelling capabilities. OPC UA provides a solid background for interoperability to be used over the next decade and beyond.

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Lele, Mihir
Mihir Girish Lele, M.Eng: Automotive Production Engineering at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Planer at EDAG Production Solutions GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.

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