FOCUS ON DIGITALISATION
The umati stand at EMO Hannover 2025.
Above: Frank Seiferth, CEO, Seitec GmbH.
Right: Götz Görisch, Chairman of the Joint Working Group for OPC UA for Machine Tools and digitalisation expert at the VDW.
With the OPC Hub, existing dashboards and software can still be used, with historical data available centrally. This benefits machine builders and customers
Working Group for OPC UA for Machine Tools and digitalisation expert at the VDW.
If data needed to be integrated into a local client / server network via Pub / Sub, this was not easy to achieve in the past. The solution, in this case, is to use an aggregating OPC UA server that subscribes to the Pub / Sub data stream and makes the selected data available in an OPC UA server for local applications. The Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology( FhG-IWU), Chemnitz, and Seitec GmbH from Königsee( both umati partners who jointly develop OPC UA applications) have now developed an OPC Hub that solves this weakness in the technology.
“ With the OPC Hub, existing dashboards and software can still be used, with historical data available centrally. This benefits machine builders and customers,” confirmed Frank Seiferth, CEO, Seitec GmbH.
Simple traceability of products
The Asset Administration Shell( AAS) can solve the problem of ensuring traceability of manufactured products and securely storing
their properties throughout the product life cycle. In the ideal case, it receives its production process data directly from the OPC UA interfaces implemented there.
At EMO Hannover 2025, Konzeptpark and Interop4X showed how this could be done successfully with a simple demonstrator that combines job management and weighing technology within umati and feeds data into the AAS. Visitors to the trade show could learn more about the functionalities of the various modules while enjoying the piece of chocolate that served as a reference product.
Connectivity that you can touch
EMO Hannover 2025 once again featured the popular umati live demonstration, with numerous partner companies from relevant sectors taking part with their machines, components and software solutions. These included machine tool manufacturers; suppliers of geometric measurement technology; additive manufacturing; robotics; image processing and software.
A QR code attached to every device connected to the umati demonstrator allowed trade show visitors to see what was happening for themselves. The display showed how the data flows directly into the umati. app demonstrator application, where it is displayed uniformly with data from other devices and is therefore available to the user in a standardised form. Software providers can also integrate their systems into this data flow. They demonstrated the benefits of their products directly and live, based upon actual data from the machine pool at EMO Hannover 2025. n
umati Open House
On 1 November 2024, the umati Open House event was successfully held at the“ Smart IoT Production” showroom in the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Intelligent Manufacturing Technology( IMT) district in China. This event aimed to provide a platform for members of the umati global community to showcase and share their advanced digital practices, while enhancing public understanding of digital concepts based on OPC UA.
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