Contribution to companion specification for material handling machines

• Enables interoperability between different crane and other industrial machine vendors
• Compatibility with OPC UA CS for robots in factories and manufacturing

Link to the VDMA Workgroup: https://opcua.vdma.org/viewer/-/v2article/render/31851035

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 and hoists

Needs IP capable networks or gateways

• Crane industries
• Smart factories and smart material handling and manufacturing
• Material handling domain and logistics, in general
• TRL 5 – technology validated in relevant environment (industrially relevant environment in the case of key enabling technologies)

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