ODVA forms machinery special interest group 11 April 2013

Open, interoperable automation technologies pressure group ODVA is forming a special interest group for machine information.

Its goal will be the development of standards for the exchange of information between machines, and between machines and supervisory systems.

Katherine Voss, president and executive director of ODVA, explains that the resulting standards will provide data models and network services to optimise the exchange of machine-to-machine data for production, energy, or condition monitoring, as well as business intelligence, batch and recipe management, and multi-machine line control.

Formation of the SIG follows ODVA's machinery initiative, aimed at the optimising machine integration. Voss says it's all about simplifying communication between heterogeneous systems using EtherNet/IP and CIP, sercos III and/or OPC UA.

"Without such standard reporting methods and tools, manufacturers must rely on customised, and often proprietary, solutions to exchange machine information across systems or transmit data back and forth with the machine," explains Voss.

ODVA, she says, will issue its call for SIG participants in the second quarter of 2013, with an organisational meeting of the SIG to be held thereafter.

Brian Tinham

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