Machinery manufacturers present OPC UA as the successful world production language
Orlando, 8 May 2024 – After a six-year break, the NPE, the most important plastics trade fair for the American market, takes place again. Mechanical engineering companies from Europe, the USA and Asia will present OPC UA as the global production language with their digital solutions for greater efficiency in production lines.
Together with the VDMA, the companies Arburg, Billion, Conair, Haitian, Plasmatreat, Shibaura, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and Wittmann Battenfeld are presenting the benefits of OPC UA, for example in the connection of peripheral devices, in the interaction of machines from different manufacturers or in communication and data transfer via the cloud. The benefit is clear to see from the practical examples: it is about greater efficiency in increasingly complex systems, cost reduction and quality assurance.
The internationality of the participating companies clearly shows that OPC UA lives up to its reputation as the global machine language of production. The further spread of OPC UA will bring enormous benefits to all end customers, as it will enable them to strengthen their competitiveness on the global markets.
Thorsten Kühmann, Managing Director of the VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association, is convinced: “All of us, machine manufacturers and processors, can only win if we decide in favour of OPC UA as the basis for data exchange in production on a global level. Together with our members and partners worldwide, we are committed to further developing the specifications for plastics machinery manufacturing and we invite all interested parties to get involved.”
