Working prototype of FDT 2.0 and OPC UA to be shown at SPS Drives

The FDT Group and the OPC Foundation announce the first public demonstrations resulting from the joint interoperability project initiated in April earlier this year. The goal of the joint en-deavor is to provide native, out of the box OPC UA connectivity with the soon to be release FDT 2.0 standard.

“I am very pleased at the progress our joint technical team has made,” observes Thomas Burke, OPC Foundation President. “When we set out on this path we knew that the capability to inte-grate was there. I am delighted that the flexibility of OPC UA allowed the quick prototypes prov-ing the feasibility of this important collaboration with no modifications to the FDT 2.0 standard. We look forward to finalizing this off the shelf integration by early 2012.”

Glenn Schulz, the Managing Director of the FDT Group discerns, “The interest in this project was immediately evident by the number of companies participating in the joint technical team. These prototypes demonstrate the type of rich integration that the marketplace is seeking between these two widely adopted industry standards. We look forward to delivering this exciting capability with the new FDT 2.0 standard.”

The partnership between the two organizations clearly demonstrates the importance of vendors and consortiums working together in a collaborative fashion to provide the right specifications/ technology that vendors are quickly able to deploy into real products. The solution solves the critical problems that both the suppliers and end-users want solved with respect to standardizing on interoperability and information integration.

Demonstrations of the prototypes are available at the FDT Group in Hall 6 Booth 120, M&M Software in Hall 7A Booth 311, and OPC Foundation in Hall 7  Booth 190.