The OPC Foundation today announced that Samsung Electronics joined them in their work to enable interoperable Industrial edge platform. Both Samsung Electronics and the OPC Foundation are excited about the collaboration and think it will be a fruitful one all around. Samsung Electronics is, at this moment, one of the most popular electronics manufacturers in the world. The company is working on deploying the Industrial IoT edge platform for its manufacturing infrastructures, in order to achieve a smooth interoperability. The OPC Foundation is the perfect partner for this as it is the organization that provides data and protocol interoperability, security and reliability from its specifications and open source implementations. These are all vendor-neutral and platform agnostic.
More than 500 vendors and software developers work together in creating the series of specifications for the OPC standard. Samsung Electronics is the latest company to join the efforts, and everyone involved thinks it is a great step to take. Kyeongwoon Lee, Senior Vice President of IoT at Samsung Electronics, thinks that “The true potential of Industrial IoT will be realized with solutions that guarantee interoperability across business domains, where are independent from vendors and platforms on the market. As one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world, we see its great value proposition of the OPC Foundation in terms of protocol interoperability that enables seamless Industrial IoT services. Especially, the OPC Foundation delivers the promising solutions of the OPC UA framework in terms of not only specifications, but also the reliable open source implementations, which guarantees the OPC UA Certifications. This will help us to accelerate our efforts in deploying the interoperable Industrial IoT edge platform for our manufacturing infrastructures.”
Thomas J. Burke OPC Foundation President & Executive Director, warmly welcomed Samsung Electronics to the OPC Foundation’s project by stating: “Samsung Electronics is one of the most important companies that truly is leading-edge in manufacturing excellence bringing quality products to the consumer market. Samsung will be able to leverage the OPC UA multivendor multiplatform technology in their manufacturing facilities to have complete information integration addressing the complex requirements of the industrial Internet of things as they leverage data and information integration from the sensors to the cloud. The OPC Foundation will be working closely with Samsung to give them the highest quality OPC UA enabled certified products from their suppliers to continue their manufacturing excellence.”
Source: OPC Foundation
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