The OPC Foundation* is putting together a working group to develop an OPC UA Information Model for a Common Analytical Instrument System Integration. The working group will develop a model that will allow for the integration of analytical instrument systems into analytical data systems to execute analytical runs (Common Analytical Instrument System Integration -“CAISI”), according to a newsletter sent to OPC Foundation members.
The main purpose of this model is to make it possible to compose analytical physical devices and instruments, integrate into a logical analytical instrument system and expose analytical instrument information to OPC UA applications. The group will primarily focus on liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and associated detectors.
This working group is expected to collaborate with the laboratory and analytical devices joint working group. Together, they will develop a common model for the instrument device level, according to the newsletter.
The first "Kick-off Meeting" of the new working group is scheduled for May 24.
With the target image of Industry 4.0 and digital business models in mind, it is a central task of mechanical and plant engineering to network production. The challenge is to achieve interoperability between a wide variety of machines, components and systems.
[*] OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a cross-platform, open-source, IEC62541 standard for data exchange from sensors to cloud applications developed by the OPC Foundation
