OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a platform-independent communication standard that enables secure and seamless data exchange between heterogeneous systems. This architecture enables data exchange across different industrial systems and between products from different brands and manufacturers. OPC UA is at the heart of IIoT, offering seamless horizontal and vertical interconnectivity between systems. In complex terms, OPC UA interlinks IIoT, Industrial 4.0, and M2M communication, enabling delivery of effective industrial automation solutions.
Utthunga is a leader in product engineering for industrial automation and specializes in OPC UA Development services. We also offer OPC UA security consultation services to our clients.
OPC UA is proving to be a game changer across various industries as it enables communication from field device to enterprise level. If you are planning to implement OPC UA, it is important to bring in the experts. OPC implementation and/or migration needs to be done gradually, so that the transition is seamless with minimum impact to existing systems and data. This is where our professional OPC UA development and security consultation services come in.
Utthunga develops OPC based solutions that can work like a protocol convertor, or a middleware or a bride to other systems and applications. Our solution communicates with other devices and systems in standardized fashion and can be customized based on the client’s requirements. We can also implement OPC PubSub and IEEE TSN (Time Sensitive Networking) at the lower levels.
The OPC Foundation recommends practical security solutions to be used while building OPC UA applications. It suggests that tested security protocols need to be implemented at every level of the industry, from the fieldbus level, machine network, cell network, company network to cloud level. The recommendations also include usage of private keys, design of OPC UA security architecture, certification management, and secure storage solutions.
Utthunga has credible domain expertise in setting up and securing an OPC UA based hardware or software application. We offer end-to-end OPC UA development services, right from analysis and design to implementation, testing and maintenance. We also deliver customized OPC UA security solutions as well as consultations to our clients.
With growing technological diffusion, comes greater complexity. The fusion between physical world and virtual world is becoming smart, and this “smartness” requires better connection and collaborations. Utthunga helps you in bridging the gap between traditional plant floor devices and process control applications to achieve a vendor-independent and platform-neutral infrastructure.
As a part of the OPC UA Development services, we:
Our experts will liaise with your internal team to identify the purpose of OPC UA development and integration. We will do an intensive research on your business needs to give you viable practical solutions.
Based on the initial discussions, we will leverage our OPC suite, multiplatform OPC SDK, protocol stacks, and built-in simulation models and several other ready-to-use frameworks. We can integrate OPC in the sensor/field device level and all the up to the cloud. Our team at Utthunga has OPC experts who have the relevant technical and domain expertise. We offer a wide range of development services that also includes automated V&V, bespoke systems and applications integration.
We are experts in the following broad areas:
After the OPC UA based solution is implemented and integrated into your existing system, our team will do an intensive evaluation to ensure that the initial set goals were met. Any gaps that are identified are filled to ensure a system that communicates and functions seamlessly.
Whether you already have OPC enabled infrastructure in place or it is your first OPC UA project, our team of OPC experts can help you with the end-to-end development of your OPC project. Benefit from our years of domain expertise in process, factory, and power industry to empower your business operations. Our industrial OPC connectivity and integration capabilities in embedded software & applications, middleware & cloud integration make us the accredited OPC partner.
Utthunga offers a comprehensive portfolio of services for integrated automation that extends from the field-level devices to the enterprise-level systems. Our professional services are designed to provide a quick start for a scenario-based, standardized, and architecture-centric evaluation process, thus enabling the Industry 4.0 ecosystem.
Utthunga has over 13 years of domain expertise in the industry. Our focus is majorly on process, factory, power, and utilities. We have also been an active contributor to the OPC foundation and other industrial consortiums. Our in-house experts have presented several white papers and IEEE publications in industrial automation conferences conducted around the world. We have also authored a whitepaper titled ”Mapping Ethernet/IP (CIP) object to OPC UA Information Model”. All this underlines our domain expertise in OPA UA and latest communication protocols.
Utthunga is also a major contributor to numerous specific working groups such as
There are various Industry 4.0 communication guidelines based on OPC UA. One of them is the 3 steps for gradual migration to OPC UA communication.
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