Foun­ded in April 2019, the Flat Glass Ini­ti­at­ive JWG pub­lished its 2nd release in 2024. The new ver­sion VDMA 40301:2024–10 intro­duces sev­er­al tech­nic­al improve­ments over the 2022 ver­sion: it replaces the Job­Man­age­ment mod­el with the new developed OPC UA Machinery Job­Man­age­ment (OPC 40001–3), adds stand­ard­ized Object­Types like Machinery­Item­State and Oper­a­tion­Coun­ters, intro­duces a File Sys­tem entry point using OPC UA Part 20, and restruc­tures Glass­Ma­chine­Type to align with Machinery­Build­ingB­locks. Redund­ant or obsol­ete types were removed to stream­line the model.

VDMA 24124 defines stand­ard­ized job and status descrip­tions for machines in flat glass pro­cessing. It provides a uni­form struc­ture for job trans­mis­sion and machine feed­back, includ­ing job IDs, pro­cessing para­met­ers, and res­ult report­ing. It also defines data struc­tures for job orders, job responses, and machine status to improve inter­op­er­ab­il­ity and auto­ma­tion effi­ciency. The spe­cific­a­tion sup­ports integ­ra­tion into MES and ERP sys­tems and ensures con­sist­ent com­mu­nic­a­tion across dif­fer­ent machine types.

We thank the more than 20 com­pan­ies for their com­mit­ment in estab­lish­ing and pro­mot­ing the standard.

Push­ing the lim­its of stand­ard­iz­a­tion in flat glass pro­cessing fur­ther, the group estab­lished a uni­form struc­ture and descrip­tion for job inform­a­tion details such as shape of glass, pro­cessing and assembly, pub­lished as VDMA spe­cific­a­tion 24124.

We thank our more than 20 mem­ber-com­pan­ies for their
com­mit­ment in estab­lish­ing and pro­mot­ing the standard:
• A+W Software
• AGC Inter­pane Holding
• DDX Soft­ware Solutions
• Dev­glass Group
• Glas Schneider
• Gla­ston Fin­land Oy
• Gla­ston Germany
• Gren­ze­bach
• HEGLA
• HEGLA HANIC
• ISRA Vision
• LiSEC Austria
• Press Glass
• Rot­tler, Rüdi­ger & Partner
• Schollglas
• Siemens
• Syn2Tec
• Syn­er­glass-Soft
• (Inter­mac, HEGLA New Tech­no­lo­gies, ISW Uni­versität Stuttgart)