MES and OPC UA connectivity
Erlangen October 2011. ascolab is a founding member of the MES Connectivity working group and editor of the companion specification. The OPC Foundation and MES vendors of the MES Dach group started a companion specification. This information model defines the OPC UA conformant representation of MES objects and information. The goal is to define a set of types in a dedicated MES namespace that are standardized and can be interpreted by MES systems using OPC UA communication when connected directly to the plant floor.
The first OPC Unified Architecture Book, written by Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner and Matthias Damm one of the co-founders of ascolab.
