Foun­ded in April 2019, the Flat Glass Ini­ti­at­ive Joint Work­ing Group pub­lished its 2nd release in 2024. The new ver­sion of OPC 40301 intro­duces sev­er­al tech­nic­al improve­ments over the 2022 ver­sion: it replaces the Job Man­age­ment mod­el with the newly developed OPC UA
Machinery Job Man­age­ment (OPC 40001–3), adds stand­ard­ized Object Types like Machinery Item State and Oper­a­tion Coun­ters, intro­duces a File Sys­tem entry point using OPC UA Part 20 and restruc­tures Glass Machine Type to align with Machinery Build­ing Blocks. 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.