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OPC UA companion profile for cranes as a new standard available in CY 2022

Project
16043 OPTIMUM
Description

Foundation of a cross-company VDMA working group for standardization activities with regards to OPC UA. Exploitable result will be an OPC UA companion profile for cranes as a new standard available in CY 2022.

  • Enables interoperability between different crane vendors
  • Compatibility with OPC UA CS for robots
Contact
Joint VDMA Working Group OPC UA for Cranes and Hoists
Email
frank.golatowski@uni-rostock.de
Technical features

Input(s):

  • Knowledge of material handling domain and OPC UA

Main feature(s):

  • Standardized OPC UA data model for cranes

Output(s):

  • Companion Specification for Cranes & Hoists (document and xml file)
Integration constraints

Needs IP capable networks or gateways or OPTIMUM IIoT platform.

Targeted customer(s)
  • Crane industries
  • Material handling domain and logistics
  • TRL 4 – technology validated in lab
Conditions for reuse

Companion spec and node set will be freely available to registered OPC UA users.

Confidentiality
Public
Publication date
12-05-2021
Involved partners
University of Rostock (DEU)