OPC UA Companion Specifications (Open Platform Communications)

Information Model Manufacturing

Welcome to the World of OPC In today’s increasingly connected industrial world, information is the foundation for digitalization, automation, artificial intelligence, and business success. The OPC Foundation develops and maintains open interoperability standards that enable secure, reliable, and vendor-independent information exchange across devices, machines, production systems, enterprises, and the cloud. By eliminating proprietary interfaces and [...]...

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The companion specs ARE domain data models — machine tools, robotics, pumps.

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This standard shows up on both sides of the house — as a data model here, and as a standard applied in API operations. Same standard, two lenses.

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Assessed 42.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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OPC UA Companion Specifications (Open Platform Communications)

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Other manufacturing data models

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