The Organization for Machine Automation and Control, OPC Foundation, and PLCopen have announced plans to band together and create industrial internet of things standards for data sharing and “seamless … interoperability,” AutomationWorld reports. This alliance comes on the heels of each group’s individual IIoT developments, like creating a global taskforce charged with developing a companion specification for industry tools. However, industrywide “standards are needed to support communications from machine-to-machine and from the plant floor to interfaces that will allow large scale data analytics and information transfer,” said OMAC’s John Kowal. “It just makes sense for these organizations which have individually done so much to advance automated manufacturing to collaborate and avoid redundant developments.”
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