Peter Seeberg talks to Holger Kenn, Chairperson of the Board of the OPC Foundation about the OPC UA for AI Working Group

Peter Seeberg talks to Tom Schneider from TRUMPF about the OPC UA for Machine Tools Companion Specification initiated and coordinated by the German Machine tools builders’ association, VDW and how this relates to UMATI.

Peter Seeberg talks to Smitha Rao, co-founder of Utthunga, about the current landscape of OPC UA in India and around the world.

Matthias Arnold talks about OPC UA as the basis for the “Laboratory and Analytical Device standard.

Markus Heintel from Siemens talks about integrating secure elements with OPC UA security, specifically how ISO / IEC TS 30168 "Internet of Things - Generic Trust Anchor API for IIoT Devices" can support this challenge.

Paul Hunkar talks about the 62443 cybersecurity standard for operational technology in automation and control systems and how it applies to OPC UA.

Sven Goldstein from Beckhoff Automation and Sebastian Friedl from Interop4X FV explain the reasons behind, the functioning of and use cases for OPC UA File Transfer. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org.

Erich Barnstedt, Chief Architect, Standards, Consortia & Industrial IoT, Azure Edge & Platform at Microsoft, talks about building the Industrial Metaverse with OPC UA. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org.

Sebastian Käbisch is Industrial IoT Expert at Siemens. Sebastian talks about the potential of having OPC UA, W3C Web of Things and ChatGPT all work together. If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org

Harirajan Padmanabhan is Founder and CEO of hpad, Incorporate talks about mental models, deep enterprise architecture, and digital transformation and how these relate to OPC UA.

Rainer Drath is professor at the Pforzheim university, AutomationML architect and author of four AutomationML books, as well as board member of the AutomationML Association. He talks about the interoperability technologies AutomationML, Asset Administration Shell and OPC UA and how they fit together.

Dieter Hess the co-founder and managing partner of Codesys shares amongst other things how his customers work with the OPC UA companion specs.

Karl-Heinz Niemann of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover talks about energy efficiency in general, about OT-Security, data formats, energy management systems, and about a consolidated energy model to be made available via OPC UA.

Frank Fengler, Head of Cybersecurity for Measurement and Analytics at ABB, explains the Process Automation Device Information Model is, how it was developed, what problem it solves, who benefits, and why they selected OPC UA as their base architecture. https://copacontrol.org/de/ If you have a proposal for topics or are interested in appearing on the OPC Foundation podcast, maybe you want to join one the VDMA or other OPC UA Companion Specification working groups, or maybe you want to become a member of the OPC Foundation or otherwise, please mail the OPC Foundation at office@opcfoundation.org

Bob Hagenau, CEO at CPLANE.ai, explains what COPA stands for, what role he plays in it and how it fits with OPC UA.

Espen Krogh, CEO of Prediktor talks the structural role OPC UA plays in the Energy Transition.

Stefan Hoppe / President of the OPC Foundation, talks about the vision, its members and board members, he gives a technology, certification, FLC and collaborations update, introduces the new OPC UA Cloud initiative and shares his plans for 2022.

Henning Mersch from Beckhoff shares his experience dealing with OPC UA companion specifications, and proposes, how persons with different roles may interact each in their own way while working with companion specifications.

Our host, Peter Seeberg from asimovero.AI gives an introduction into artificial intelligence and explains how OPC UA is the perfect match for making AI come true in industry.

Andreas Hennecke, from Pepperl and Fuchs gives an introduction into process plants going digital, he talks about robust communication and its implications for technicians, and he explains Ethernet-APL and how it relates to OPC UA.