OPC Day Finland 2022 – OPC UA extends to field and cloud

After two years of the event being hosted online, we gathered all together at Messukeskus, Helsinki, where the Finnish Society of Automation hosted the OPC Day Finland 2022. Every year experts from all over the world gather together to talk about technology and the new possibilities in smart manufacturing and other industrial domains.

The main focus of this year’s event was on how OPC UA extends to field and cloud. The whole day various speakers shared their valuable knowledge and broad experience. The topics also covered use cases and international collaborations, which are the key to success in the world of smart manufacturing.

With over 80 participants this year, the Messukeskus conference room was full of experts and industry professionals. We have been proud sponsors of OPC Day Finland for many years, and every time it is awarding to watch all the discussions and rising interest in OPC UA. Massive thanks to the Finnish Society of Automation for such a memorable experience!

Presentations

In case you missed some of the presentations or couldn’t attend the event, we have created this article for you to give more insight into the event, speakers and topics covered. In addition, all the recordings are now available in a separate playlist on the Finnish Society of Automation YouTube channel. The copies of slides can also be found on the OPC Day Finland 2022 home page.

Contents

Below, you will find links to the individual presentation videos.

• Opening of the OPC Day by Jouni Aro, Prosys OPC
  The day started with the opening words from our CTO – Jouni Aro, on behalf of the organizational committee, where he shared the agenda for the day and gave a brief introduction to the speakers and upcoming presentations.

• Keynote: Latest News about OPC UA by Stefan Hoppe, OPC Foundation
  Topics addressed during the presentation:
  • OPC Foundation
  • Technology: Status & roadmap
  • Collaborations & Information Models
  • Other technology news

• OPC UA Field Level Communication FLC and OPC UA Field Exchange FX by Peter Lutz, OPC Foundation
  During his presentation, Peter addressed the definition of Field eXchange and covered the new OPC UA FX specifications and potential use cases.

• OPC UA Cloud – empowering central data modeling by Bo Biene, Inray
  Bo explained how the OPC UA Cloud Library and Cloud Federation are extending the capabilities to use OPC UA Companion Specifications in cloud applications.

• Latest News on OPC UA PubSub and Security Configuration by Matthias Damm, Unified Automation
  Topics covered during the presentation:
  • Definition and specifications of OPC UA PubSub Communication Model
  • OPC UA PubSub Configuration
  • GDS for OPC UA Security Management

• OPC UA Machinery Information Model by Heiko Herden, VDMA
  Heiko introduced how VDMA plays a big role in defining the OPC UA Companion Specifications for the machinery domain. The latest achievement is the common base model for all of them.

• Open Industry 4.0 by Konrad Heidrich, Hilscher
  During the presentation, Konrad introduced the audience to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, its principles of operation, its achievements, and its collaborations.

• Open Industry 4.0 Open Edge Computing by Konrad Heidrich, Hilscher
  Topics included in the presentation:
  • OI4 Reference Architecture
  • Open Edge Computing Platform
  • The Message Bus
  • OPC UA PubSub JSON

• OPC UA Security Management and FX Configuration by Matthias Damm, Unified Automation
  Topics covered during the presentation:
  • OPC UA Security Management with GDS
  • OPC UA FX Development and Configuration Demo

• OPC UA PubSub Hands-on Demonstration by Jouni Aro, Prosys OPC
  • OPC UA PubSub Model
  • OPC UA PubSub Configuration
  • PubSub Demo
    • OPC UA Simulation Server as Published
    • OPC UA Browser as Subscriber
  • Open Industry 4.0 Demo
    • Open Edge Computing Guideline
    • Simulated Device

• Large Scale Production Data Delivery to Cloud with OPC UA PubSub by Jan Borch, Amazon
  • Industrial IoT Cases
  • OPC UA PubSub for Cloud Connectivity powered by AWS IoT
  • Cloud Side OPC UA PubSub Subscriber

• OPC UA as Large Scale Aggregation Server by Mika Karaila, Valmet
  Topics included in the presentation:
  • Aggregation Server definition, work principle and use cases
  • Aggregation Server configuration
  • Testing
  • Scalability & performance
  • Tips for testing and debugging & advanced features

• Solving energy crisis OPC UA and UPM Energy Beyond Spot Service by Veli-Pekka Salo, Wapice & Jukka-Pekka Häkli, UPM
  • UPM Energy
    • Energy transition
    • Energy market transformation
  • UPM Schongau project
  • Wapice
  • IoT-Ticket

• Digital Transform: Accelerating Time to Value and Unlocking Double Digit KPI Improvements at Scale by Thorsten Weiler, Inray
  • Greiner Packaging project
    • Project goals
    • Project challenges
    • Course of the project
    • Project details
    • Project outcome

• OPC UA for Creating Next-Gen Cloud Edge and Cloud Data Solutions by Jukka Pirinen & Janne Laukkanen, Brightly Works
  • E2E Solution design & development
  • OPC UA in Brightly projects
  • Edge-Cloud hybrid architecture