Schneider Electric welcomes the OPC Foundation recognition of industry efforts to bring interoperable communications to field level industrial operations.
In the fast-changing industrial space, operations technology and information technology are becoming increasingly interconnected to enable more flexible and agile manufacturing and processing operations to meet evolving market requirements. The recognition of the importance of standards-based communication between operational technologies and information technologies (OT and IT) across device, machine to machine, and cloud infrastructure as the basis for industry to achieve the full benefits of automation is a vital step. “The benefits OT and IT connectivity can only be realised through open, deep interoperability. This drives an urgent need to move away from proprietary communication protocols in favour of open, unified, standards based, Industrial IoT (IIoT) communications between sensors, actuators, controllers and cloud platforms,” says Fabrice Jadot, Senior Vice President, Technology and Innovation and CTO for Industry Business at Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric has been working to bring open interoperable communications between devices and systems with a number of market leader partners and supports the Open Platform Communication Foundation (OPC F).
