OPC Foundation Podcast
Episodes
OPC UA and International Data Spaces Association
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter talks to Lars Nagel, CEO of the International Data Spaces Association about OPCUA and IDSA.
OPC UA and Catena-X
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Thomas Obermeyer, Lead Dataspace Architect at Catena-X about OPC UA and Catena-X.
OPC UA and 5G Integration
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Xueli An, Research Manager and Industry Development Specialist at Huawei Technologies about integrating OPC UA and 5G.
OPC UA and OPC Foundation in 2024 and 2025
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Stefan Hoppe, President + Executive Director of the OPC Foundation about what happened in 2024 and what is planned for 2025
OPC UA for Unlocking & Activating Industrial Data
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Vatsal Shah, Founder & CEO Litmus about Unlocking & Activating Industrial Data
OPC UA in Airbus Rockets
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Enrico Noack and Andreas Schuette from Airbus Defense and Space about the use of OPC UA in rockets, specifically, in the TEXUS ...
OPC UA for AI
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Holger Kenn, Chairperson of the Board of the OPC Foundation about the OPC UA for AI Working Group
OPC UA and Open Source at Trumpf
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Tom Schneider from TRUMPF about the OPC UA for Machine Tools Companion Specification initiated and coordinated by the German Ma...
OPC UA from India
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Seeberg talks to Smitha Rao, co-founder of Utthunga, about the current landscape of OPC UA in India and around the world.
Laboratory and Analytical Device standard on OPC UA
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthias Arnold talks about OPC UA as the basis for the “Laboratory and Analytical Device standard.
Integrating secure elements with OPC UA security
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Heintel from Siemens talks about integrating secure elements with OPC UA security, specifically how ISO / IEC TS 30168 "Internet of Things - Ge...
OPC UA and the 62443 cybersecurity standard
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Hunkar talks about the 62443 cybersecurity standard for operational technology in automation and control systems and how it applies to OPC UA.
OPC UA Filetransfer
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sven Goldstein from Beckhoff Automation and Sebastian Friedl from Interop4X FV explain the reasons behind, the functioning of and use cases for OPC UA...
Building the Industrial Metaverse with OPC UA
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Erich Barnstedt, Chief Architect, Standards, Consortia & Industrial IoT, Azure Edge & Platform at Microsoft, talks about building the Industrial Metav...
The OPC UA - W3C Web of Things - ChatGPT Dream Team
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Käbisch is Industrial IoT Expert at Siemens. Sebastian talks about the potential of having OPC UA, W3C Web of Things and ChatGPT all work t...
Mental models, deep enterprise architecture, digital transformation and OPC UA
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harirajan Padmanabhan is Founder and CEO of hpad, Incorporate talks about mental models, deep enterprise architecture, and digital transformation and ...
Interoperability technologies AutomationML, Asset Administration Shell and OPC UA and how they fit together
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rainer Drath is professor at the Pforzheim university, AutomationML architect and author of four AutomationML books, as well as board member of the Au...
OPC UA implementation into the Codesys automation platform
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dieter Hess the co-founder and managing partner of Codesys shares amongst other things how his customers work with the OPC UA companion specs.
Energy efficiency and how OPC UA can help building a unified energy model
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karl-Heinz Niemann of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover talks about energy efficiency in general, about OT-Security, data format...
Process Automation Device Information Model (PA-DIM) and the role OPC UA plays in it
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Fengler, Head of Cybersecurity for Measurement and Analytics at ABB, explains the Process Automation Device Information Model is, how it was dev...
OPC UA and COPA, the Coalition for Open Process Automation
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Hagenau, CEO at CPLANE.ai, explains what COPA stands for, what role he plays in it and how it fits with OPC UA.
OPC UA and the Energy Transition
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Espen Krogh, CEO of Prediktor talks the structural role OPC UA plays in the Energy Transition.
2021 review and plans for 2022
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Hoppe / President of the OPC Foundation, talks about the vision, its members and board members, he gives a technology, certification, FLC and c...
Designing machines supporting OPC UA Companion Specificiations
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Henning Mersch from Beckhoff shares his experience dealing with OPC UA companion specifications, and proposes, how persons with different roles may in...
OPC UA and Artificial Intelligence
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our host, Peter Seeberg from asimovero.AI gives an introduction into artificial intelligence and explains how OPC UA is the perfect match for making A...
OPC UA and Ethernet-APL
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Hennecke, from Pepperl and Fuchs gives an introduction into process plants going digital, he talks about robust communication and its implicat...
OPC UA Legal topics
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Biddle, OPC Foundation Counsel, will talk about antitrust, Intellectual property rights, patent licensing, and the different roles open standards...
OPC UA for Machine Tools Companion Specification
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Wohlfeld from TRUMPF and Götz Görisch from VDW talk about the OPC UA for Machine Tools Companion Specification initiated and coordinated by ...
Machinery Companion Specifications
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heiko Herden explains, what VDMA is, why OPC UA for Machinery was needed, the goal of the working group, the existing and upcoming results and how you...
OPC UA Security
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Armstrong, Director IT Operations as well as Chair of the OPC UA Security Working Group, talks about OPC UA Security. Randy gives an introductio...
Equinor OPC UA use case
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steffan Sørenes shares his experience, implementing and scaling OPC UA, bumps he has run intro, benefits of using OPC UA as an open standard architec...
OPC UA FX (Field eXchange) Specification Extensions
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alyssa Mallkowsky from Siemens talks to Georg Biehler, also from Siemens, and Clark Case from Rockwell about the first FLC specification. Clark Case a...
Open Process Automation Forum
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Bartusiak, President of Collaborative Systems Integration, talks about, what it is, they are trying to solve, today’s lack of interconnectivity ...
The past and the future of OPC UA
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Luth, System Architect with Schneider Electric, and CTO of the OPC Foundation, talks about role as OPC Foundation CTO, about OPC UA revisions and ...
Getting OPC UA products certified
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Allmendinger from the OPC Foundation talks about the certification process, the preparation, how to reach compliance, the actual testing, wh...
Connect for Manufacturing App
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mithun Katti and Joerg Wende from IBM talk about IBM Industry 4.0 solutions, their Plant Service Bus, and the role OPC-UA plays in the IBM reference a...
Certification
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Hunkar from OPC Foundation explains, why certification is important, he talks about end-user and vendor demand for certification, about the cost ...
Functional Safety
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Max Walter from Siemens, in his role as the chairperson of the Joint Working Safety OPC & PI, gives a quick introduction into functional safety, he e...
Field Level Communications
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Lutz, Director Field Level Communications from the OPC Foundation, provides background information about the FLC initiative, he talks about goal...
Smart Factory Web
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Usländer talks about major trends in smart manufacturing, he explains what Smart Factory Web is, how it relates to the German Industrie 4.0 an...
OPEN Serialization Communication Standard
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marcel de Grutter, Executive Director OPEN-SCS, explains, what the OPEN-SCS does, what serialization is, he talks about developments driven forward b...
Industrial IoT
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erich Barnstedt from Micorsoft explains, what Industrial IoT is, what role Microsoft plays in Industrial IoT, he talks about open source, about their ...
Commercial Kitchen Equipment Companion Specification
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fabian Anzmann from the Industrial Association of House, Heating and Kitchen Technology and Holger Burgtorf from Küppersbusch give us an introduction...
AutoID Companion Specification
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Olaf Wilmsmeier from Harting and Peter Altes from AIM explain, what the AIM organization is, they talk about the role of AutoID in the context of Indu...
SAP Business Software
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Veronika Schmid-Lutz and Rüdiger Fritz from SAP tell us, what value SAP sees in OPC UA. They talk about Business Context Driven Control Loops and the...
VDMA Companion Specifications
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Faath tells us, what VDMA is, what OPC UA Companion Specifications they have been working on, how that process works, he talks about the compa...
Companion Specifications
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Karl explains, what Companion Specifications are, he talks about the OPC UA basics for these specifications, he explains the different types of Compan...
Use-Cases
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Anhalt from Softing answer questions about markets, adoption drivers, competing standards, horizontal and vertical integration of IT and O...
Getting Started
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jouni Aro will tell us what options you as a listener have for implementing OPC UA into your offering. He’ll talk about off-the-shelf products, soft...
Security
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Darek Kominek will address the IT-OT gap, talk about endpoints and protecting against common hacker / malware attacks, security in different industrie...
Technology
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second edition of the OPC Foundation Podcast - The Home of Industrial Interoperability. In this edition Uwe Steinkrauss from Unified Au...
What is OPC?
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Hoppe, the president of the OPC Foundation, sets the direction of this new podcast. He tells us what OPC is, what the OPC Foundation does, and ...