What is OPC UA?

OPC UA: Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture

OPC UA is a standard overseeing interoperability and data exchange for industrial communications. It provides safe and secure means to connect supervision systems (SCADA), programmable logic controller (PLC), with actuators and field systems.

International standard (IEC 62541)
Open, independent from manufacturers, programming languages, and operating systems
Secure and reliable: secure communications on open networks
Interoperable, multi-platform, upgradeable
Model Based, Object Oriented technology
Pub/Sub communication model

OPC UA: the choice for Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things

OPC UA is already a standard for Industry 4.0 and the market is growing even more with the cyber security requirements. All industries have very old an obsolete installations and they will have to look for improving the security of their installations in the very near future.

The German federal office for information security (BSI) evaluated OPC UA positively. In its architecture benchmark (RAMI 4.0), the German platform for Industry 4.0 made OPC UA mandatory for the “communication” layer.

In France, the OPC foundation works with the normalization group of the Alliance pour l’Industrie du Futur to define its own reference model.

OPC UA expertise

Through several implementations of the OPC UA technology in an industrial context, Systerel developed a real expertise on the OPC UA standard.

Member of OPC Foundation
Member of OPC Group France (GIMELEC)
OPC UA validation and certification tests incorporated in the continuous integration process
A member of Systerel listed as an expert for OPC UA technology by the OPC Foundation in all categories (Information Modeling, Application Design, Security Consulting, Training and Implementation Support).
Training

S2OPC the first OPC UA implementation on the market certified by both the French Cybersecurity Agency and the OPC Foundation.

Safe and Secure OPC

The OPC Foundation

The OPC Foundation is an international organization which promotes and maintains the OPC standards. The foundation gathers more than 500 members, from automation system providers to end users.

As a member of the OPC foundation, Systerel is a active partner of the Foundation in France and Europe:

Participation in the development of the standard
Working Groups member and contributor
A member of Systerel listed as an expert for OPC UA technology by the OPC Foundation in all categories (Information Modeling, Application Design, Security Consulting, Training and Implementation Support).

Systerel contributes to the diffusion of OPC UA technology and its emergence (exhibition, conferences, academic publications…)

OPC FOUNDATION

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