ODVA announces joint working group with OPC Foundation
ODVA宣布與OPC基金會成立聯合工作組

ODVA announced that it has launched a joint working group with the OPC Foundation to develop an OPC UA companion specification to the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP). The collaboration between ODVA and the OPC Foundation will result in secure communications between devices that are a part of a CIP-enabled Industrial Control System (ICS) and other OPC UA enabled applications allowing communication between CIP devices and OPC UA devices as well as with cloud and enterprise level services. Common tasks required for cloud gateway appliance management will be enabled, and CIP devices will have unimpeded access to leading cloud services. The OPC UA companion specification will address the challenge of moving industrial communication and control data from the factory floor to the cloud via gateways.

ODVA宣布已與OPC基金會成立了一個聯合工作組，以開發通用工業協議（CIP）的OPC UA配套規范。ODVA與OPC基金會之間的合作將確保作為CIP支持的工業控制系統（ICS）一部分的設備與其他支持OPC UA的應用之間的安全通信，從而允許CIP設備與OPC UA設備之間以及與云之間的通信和企業級服務。啟用云網關設備管理所需的常見任務，并且CIP設備將不受阻礙地訪問領先的云服務。OPC UA配套規范將解決通過網關將工業通信和控制數據從工廠轉移到云端的挑戰。
 
The OPC UA companion specification will map CIP objects to the appropriate OPC UA information models and profiles and vice-versa. Sending data to and from the cloud from EtherNet/IP to OPC UA will be accomplished by providing information including discovery, identity, diagnostics, status, parameter and much more from CIP devices. Allowing critical automation information to be transferred from EtherNet/IP to OPC UA will lower the effort required to enable access from higher level systems, such as Analytics, ERP or MES. The OPC UA companion specification to CIP will ensure that data will be available to Enterprise and IT systems with proper context and semantics (i.e. meaning) for trend analysis and insight generation.

OPC UA配套規范將把CIP對象映射到適當的OPC UA信息模型和配置文件，反之亦然。通過從CIP設備提供包括發現、身份、診斷、狀態、參數等信息，可以實現從EtherNet/IP到云之間以及從EtherNet/IP向OPC UA發送數據。允許將關鍵的自動化信息從EtherNet/IP傳輸到OPC UA，將降低從更高級系統(如分析、ERP或MES)進行訪問所需的工作量。CIP的OPC UA配套規范將確保企業和信息技術系統能夠獲得數據，并為趨勢分析和洞察生成提供適當的上下文和語義(即含義)。

A joint working group, composed of members of ODVA and the OPC Foundation, will work to identify critical device to cloud use cases, such as tying warranty costs back to production variations, that will drive the scope of the work to be done. In parallel work to the joint development of the OPC UA companion specification to CIP, CIP and EtherNet/IP will be enhanced by ODVA SIGs, as needed, to ensure that all of the pertinent data is able to be understood by OPC UA without any additional work needed by end users.

由ODVA和OPC基金會成員組成的聯合工作組將致力于確定關鍵設備到云的使用案例，例如將保修成本與生產變化掛鉤，這將推動工作范圍的擴大。在聯合開發OPC UA配套規范到CIP的并行工作中，ODVA SIG將根據需要增強CIP和EtherNet/IP，以確保OPC UA能夠理解所有相關數據，而無需終端用戶進行任何額外的工作。

The coordination of ODVA and the OPC Foundation will work to ensure scalability and interoperability of key device information with critical meaning across the entire enterprise. Specifically, OPC UA servers will be able to map to and expose CIP objects and will have the services to allow establishing a connection and exchanging well-formed messages between OPC UA applications and EtherNet/IP. The end goal of the joint working group is to create an OPC UA companion specification that will map CIP objects to the needed information models and profiles.

ODVA和OPC基金會的協調將致力于確保關鍵設備信息的可擴展性和互操作性，這些信息在整個企業中具有至關重要的意義。具體來說，OPC UA服務器將能夠映射并公開CIP對象，并將具有允許在OPC UA應用程序和EtherNet/IP之間建立連接并交換格式正確的消息的服務。聯合工作組的最終目標是創建一個OPC UA配套規范，該規范將CIP對象映射到所需的信息模型和配置文件。