Success Stories
Connecting Brownfield with OPC UA for Machine Tool Semantics
United Grinding Group
Task: A customer wanted to connect old machinery to a dashboard. The implementation used a simple microcontroller IoT Gateway with OPC UA capabilities. As the Gateway was not able to load full OPC UA Companion Specifications. To be able to connect the machines to a umati ecosystem, simple variables were implemented, following the umati/OPC UA for Machinery/OPC UA for Machine Tools semantics. These nodes were easily integrated via Node Red into a dashboard modeled with Grafana.
Cookbook:
- Old machines
- IoT-Device W&T Web-IO 4.0
- NodeRed
- Grafana
- OPC UA 40001 & 40501
Type of Solution: Proof of Concept