Hey all, I visited the Motec Fair for industrial automation and had a lot of interesting discussions in the context of plc4x. Timm and his colleagues at the Hochschule Esslingen developed a very interesting “I4.0” solution which is currently solely based on OPC UA. We then discussed about something which is so obvious that I’m pretty sure that anyone else has already thought about.
The idea was to have a “plc4x-opc-ua-bridge”, i.e., a small OPC UA Server application which has a configuration that maps between an OPC UA tree and plc4x fields. This is a very interesting “retro-fit” from my perspective (and I think there are several hardware applications for that also) but would be really cool in an OSS Stack. For the OPC UA Server Eclipse Milo should bring all that’s needed. What are your thoughts on that? Ideally, we could do this together with the Hochschule and some students could support with the implementation. Best Julian
