Many businesses around the world are developing strategies on how to embrace new trends such as globalization and digitization. As these trends continue to affect businesses more and more, they need to address the changes these trends are causing in order to stay competitive and profitable.

Practical security recommendations for building OPC UA Applications provides both application guidelines and an overview of the OPC UA security concept itself, and how to use it. As industrial systems use networking and digitalization, new security challenges that are created need to be tackled systematically.

Based on its future-ready and legacy-friendly design, true multi-vendor interoperability facilitation and an active technical community, OPC UA has gained broad industry acceptance and is well-suited to serve as a solid foundation for the Open Process Automation Forum to build upon to fulfill its vision.

An effective strategy for for migrating from OPC Classic to OPC UA employs important steps to minimize the time, cost and risk. With best-in-class OPC products and application expertise, it can be easy to assess the needs of your organization’s migration requirements and then assist with a seamless, end-to-end solution.

Is three too many? Or can we benefit from the interplay of OPC UA, Profinet and TSN? All offer individual strengths and weaknesses, and applications will be diverse using these technologies for Industry 4.0 / IIoT networks. And customers will choose the application protocol that best meets their individual requirements.