Presentations

In case you missed the event or want to refresh your memory of the presentations, the Finnish Society of Automation has kindly added the recordings of each presentation to a playlist on their YouTube channel. You can also find the presentation files on their website.

Don’t have time to dive into the presentation videos right now? No worries; below, you can find short descriptions of each presentation and links to every speech.

Opening Presentation

by Jouni Aro, Finnish Society of Automation

The opening speech welcomed participants to OPC Day Finland and introduced the Finnish Society of Automation, but also gives a quick primer on the complete picture of the OPC UA landscape and targets at the end of the presentation.

Keynote 1: The Acceleration of Digital Manufacturing with Smart Machines and Software-Defined Factories

by Steve Blackwell, AWS

This keynote explored AWS’s perspective on the acceleration of digital manufacturing through smart machines and software-defined factories. It emphasized the convergence of engineering, operations, and IT, highlighting scalable cloud and edge architectures, industrial data platforms, and AI-driven use cases such as predictive maintenance. The talk showcased how manufacturers can move beyond isolated pilots to globally scalable solutions that improve reliability, flexibility, and time-to-value across diverse industrial sectors.

Keynote 2: OPC Foundation and the Trends in Digitalisation

by Stefan Hoppe, OPC Foundation

Stefan Hoppe’s keynote explored the OPC Foundation’s role in shaping industrial interoperability and the latest trends in digitalisation. It highlighted how OPC UA information models, companion specifications, and multi-stakeholder liaisons are enabling scalable, semantic, and secure data exchange across ecosystems. The talk emphasized the growing importance of data spaces and regulatory-driven initiatives such as the Digital Product Passport (DPP), outlining how OPC UA-based infrastructures can reduce integration effort while accelerating compliance and cross-company collaboration.

OPC UA Cloud Initiative including Catena-X and Digital Product Passport

by Erich Barnstedt, Microsoft

Erich Barnstedt presented the OPC UA Cloud Initiative and how it enables trusted, scalable industrial data sharing across companies and ecosystems. It highlighted cloud reference architectures and standardized OPC UA profiles designed to support interoperability from edge to cloud, while aligning with emerging regulations and compliance requirements. The talk also showcased how initiatives like Catena-X and the Digital Product Passport can leverage OPC UA information models and companion specifications to build secure, vendor-agnostic data pipelines for traceability, transparency, and cross-value-chain collaboration.

OPC UA and Battery Passport

by Arno Schmetz, Fraunhofer FFB

Arno Schmetz focused on how OPC UA can support the emerging Battery Passport requirements by enabling interoperable, structured, and trustworthy data exchange across battery production and supply chains. It highlighted the rapid growth of the battery market and the resulting need for digital compliance solutions, positioning interoperability as a core challenge. The talk outlined an approach for building an OPC UA–based interoperability layer to connect production machines and systems, making battery lifecycle and traceability data easier to standardize, share, and scale across stakeholders.

MTP in the Pharmaceutical Industry

by Thomas Makait, MTP4Pharma

In this presentation Thomas Makait explored the adoption of Module Type Package (MTP) as a foundation for modular, plug-and-produce automation in the pharmaceutical industry. It highlighted how standardized, semantically modeled engineering data can simplify integration, enable faster system qualification and validation (CSV), and support scalable modular plant concepts. The talk positioned MTP as a practical pathway toward Pharma 4.0 readiness, emphasizing cross-industry collaboration through standards bodies and guidelines to ensure compliant and interoperable modular production.

OPC UA Field Exchange – Status Update

by Peter Lutz, OPC Foundation

This presentation explored the OPC Foundation’s Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative and its role in extending OPC UA down to sensors, actuators, and field devices in factory and process automation. It highlighted how OPC UA over TSN enables deterministic, real-time communication while maintaining a unified information model across all automation levels. The talk emphasized convergence at the field level as a key enabler for vendor-neutral interoperability, simplified architectures, and future-ready automation systems spanning both discrete and process industries.

Co-developing a pilot integration using OPC UA and MQTT – Deepening Integration in Manufacturing

by Ronal Bejarano, Wärtsilä & Timo Lundstedt, Konecranes

The presentation explored real-world OT–IT integration use cases from Wärtsilä and Konecranes, focusing on how OPC UA enables secure, scalable machine-to-machine and edge-to-cloud communication in industrial environments. It highlighted practical architectures for exposing production and equipment data through standardized interfaces while maintaining strong cybersecurity and system isolation. The talk emphasized the value of OPC UA in supporting AI/ML applications, analytics, and customer-centric digital services built on reliable, interoperable industrial data.

Agentic Machine Onboarding using SFC

by Hubert Asamer, AWS

From an Industrial DataOps perspective, this presentation explored AWS’s approach to Industrial DataOps and how manufacturers can unlock “the right data for the right use cases” by building standardized, scalable data pipelines from the shopfloor to cloud. It highlighted Industrial ShopFloorConnect as a free and open-source software foundation for accelerating industrial connectivity and data integration, supporting faster onboarding of assets and repeatable data flows. The talk emphasized practical steps for turning raw OT data into usable, governed, and analytics-ready information to enable continuous improvement, advanced analytics, and AI-driven manufacturing applications.

Possibilities of OPC UA from the Sterilizer Equipment Technology Perspective

by Juha Mattila, STERIS Life Sciences

This presentation explored how OPC UA can support sterilization and critical utility processes in regulated life sciences environments by enabling standardized, secure, and traceable data exchange. It highlighted the importance of reliable connectivity and structured information for systems such as moist heat and VHP sterilization, biodecontamination, and critical utilities like WFI and pure steam. The talk emphasized how standards-based integration can strengthen compliance, improve operational visibility, and support consistent documentation and quality assurance across pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing.

OPC UA industry examples

by Veli-Pekka Salo & Aurelian Pop, Wapice

Showcasing applied industry use cases, this presentation presented how AI, analytics, and modern software architectures can be combined with OPC UA to enable intelligent, future-ready industrial systems. It highlighted real-world approaches to turning standardized industrial data into actionable insights using AI and advanced analytics, with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability. The talk emphasized secure OPC UA–based connectivity and modern implementation practices—such as high-performance system design—to support data-driven automation and digital transformation across industrial operations.

AI Agent: MCP & OPC UA for Claude  

by Mika Karaila, Valmet

Mika Karaila explored Valmet’s perspective on applying AI and machine learning to industrial environments, highlighting how advanced models and software solutions can improve operational performance and decision-making. It emphasized the importance of practical, industry-ready AI that can be embedded into real processes and scaled across complex production systems. The talk positioned data-driven innovation as a key enabler for modern industrial competitiveness, combining long-term domain expertise with emerging analytics and automation capabilities.

Interoperability in action: TwinCAT OPC UA, Pub/Sub and Companion Specifications driving machine-level integration

by Michael Knossalla, Beckhoff Automation

Through the lens of machine-level integration, this presentation presented OPC UA connectivity and IoT integration within the Beckhoff TwinCAT ecosystem, highlighting how standardized communication and unified data models can simplify machine-level integration and support scalable automation architectures. It showcased practical implementation examples of OPC UA in TwinCAT products, emphasizing reliable interoperability, efficient device connectivity, and readiness for edge-to-cloud scenarios in modern industrial systems.

Unified Namespace over OPC UA

by Pyry Grönholm, Prosys OPC

From an interoperability architecture standpoint, this presentation explored Prosys OPC’s perspective on building scalable and secure industrial interoperability with OPC UA, emphasizing practical IT/OT integration in real production environments. It highlighted the importance of standards-based architectures for reducing integration complexity, improving data accessibility, and enabling long-term maintainability across heterogeneous systems. The talk also underlined OT cybersecurity practices as a core requirement for future-proof industrial deployments, positioning OPC UA as a key technology for trusted connectivity from shopfloor to enterprise and cloud.