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09.01.2024

Why Do Standards Matter in Smart Manufacturing?

The blog post discusses the importance of standards in smart manufacturing, envisioning a future where auto-configurable systems in manufacturing rely on standardized data formats for seamless integration and reduced costs, with a focus on the OPC UA standard family as a key enabler.

31.03.2023

OPC UA PubSub to Cloud via MQTT

Detailed overview of the demo presented at the OPC Foundation booth

21.03.2023

SimServer How To #3: Simulate data changes on a server using an OPC UA client

A two-part step-by-step tutorial on how to write data changes on an OPC UA server using an OPC UA client.

08.03.2023

How to Succeed in the Production Analytics Project

Industry 4.0 analytics projects are going to be Significantly rising business in the next couple of years. Read how to bypass the most common cavepits and delivery projects succesfully.

22.02.2023

OPC UA Pwn2Own 2023 Resource Exhaustion Exploit

Security vulnerability in the Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java.

01.02.2023

Why is Prosys OPC UA Forge an Important Part of Industry 4.0 Factory?

Nowadays, the Edge application offers a wider functionality than just of an aggregating OPC UA server. In reality, it is the main part of an Industry 4.0 factory.

24.01.2023

Introducing Prosys OPC UA Forge

The very first blog post about Prosys OPC UA Forge. The article introduces the main features and functionalities of the OPC UA Forge software.

23.01.2023

Windows DCOM Hardening And OPC Classic Applications

How do the Windows DCOM hardening changes affect your OPC Classic applications.

12.01.2023

OPC UA vs MQTT (or OPC UA over MQTT)

Our input on the debate of the differences between OPC UA and MQTT and how actually there is competition.

21.12.2022

OPC Day Finland 2022 - OPC UA extends to field and cloud

Watch Jouni Aro, Stefan Hoppe, Matthias Damm, Konrad Heidrich, and many other experts talk about the technology and trends in smart manufacturing.

16.12.2022

OPC UA User Password Edit Exploit

Security vulnerability in the user interface of Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server and Modbus Server.

02.11.2022

Open Industry 4.0 Simulation

Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server enables Open Industry 4.0 Simulation.

30.10.2022

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance & Prosys OPC

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance aims to unite vendors to support a common communication architecture and Prosys OPC provides the tools.

20.10.2022

Connecting OPC UA Simulation Server and OPC UA Browser to an OPC UA PubSub Network

Small guide that showcases how to connect Prosys OPC Simulation Server and Prosys OPC UA Browser to an MQTT Broker.

03.10.2022

How we create an Industry 4.0 Roadmap for plants and factories

A deep dive into how we create an Industry 4.0 Roadmap for plants and factories using information modeling and data harmonization.

20.07.2022

Connecting OPC UA Publisher to Azure IoT Central with MQTT

Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java allows publishing OPC UA data to Azure IoT Central using the MQTT protocol.

14.07.2022

Securing automation networks in Industry 4.0 world

Three simple ways to secure your automation network

12.07.2022

SimServer How To #2: Replicate any OPC UA Server with a Simulation Server

Exporting an existing information model from a Real-life Server with UaExpert and simulating it in Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server.

13.06.2022

Windows DCOM Server Security Feature Bypass

How to address the hardening changes that will be enforced to Windows DCOM Security in your applications.

24.05.2022

OPC UA and Open Industry 4.0

Learn how OPC UA and Open Industry 4.0 complement each other.

23.05.2022

OPC UA PubSub to Cloud via MQTT Demo at Hannover Messe 2022

Combining Raspberry Pi 4 and Prosys SDK for Java for Cloud Demo

18.05.2022

OPC Day International 2022 - All Presentations

The whole program and all presentations of the largest OPC Day ever.

11.05.2022

OPC UA Pwn2Own Resource Exhaustion Exploit

Security vulnerability in the Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java.

22.03.2022

SimServer How To #1: Build and simulate OPC UA Data Models

Designing information models with OPC UA Modeler and using them in Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server to simulate systems

04.02.2022

Update to importing Information Models, February 2022

Updates to the blog post on importing Information Models from NodeSet files

20.12.2021

Update to importing Information Models, December 2021

Updates to the blog post on importing Information Models from NodeSet files

16.12.2021

OPC UA Manufacturing Gateway Demo

OPC UA Manufacturing Gateway features OPC UA PubSub UDP and MQTT as well as OPC UA Process Automation Device Information Model (PA-DIM)

16.12.2021

Log4Shell Attack Exploit

Security vulnerability in Java based OPC UA applications. (UPDATED 16.03.2022)

14.12.2021

OPC UA PubSub Explained

OPC UA PubSub is a new alternative communication model in addition to the traditional Client/Server model.

26.11.2021

Connecting OPC UA Publisher to Amazon AWS IoT with MQTT

Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java allows publishing OPC UA data to AWS IoT using the MQTT protocol.

14.07.2021

Connecting OPC UA Publisher to Azure with MQTT

Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java allows publishing OPC UA data to Azure using the MQTT protocol.

20.01.2021

Introduction to OPC UA Online Course - Instructions

The blog post describes step-by-step TalentLMS sign-up and course payment process

07.12.2020

Update to importing Information Models, December 2020

Updates to the blog post on importing Information Models from NodeSet files

18.11.2020

OPC UA and Information Modeling for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Master's thesis evaluation of OPC UA protocol and information modeling for use in heavily regulated manufacturing fields

01.09.2020

Importing Information Models from OPC UA NodeSet files

Importing Information Models from OPC UA NodeSet files with Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java and Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server

16.04.2020

HaToDb - A demonstration on storing historical node data to a database

Using our Prosys OPC UA SDK for Java to gather historical data.

26.03.2020

OPC UA Invalid Server Nonces Vulnerability

Security vulnerability in the OPC UA Java Stack.

16.03.2020

Transferring data from field devices through Prosys OPC UA Historian to the cloud using AWS IoT Greengrass and SiteWise

A guide on setting up AWS IoT Greengrass/SiteWise connection to Prosys OPC UA Historian.

11.02.2020

OPC UA Enabling Plug & Produce - Report from OPC Day Finland 2019

OPC UA is finally finding its way to the end users, who are looking for Plug & Produce solutions.

25.10.2019

OPC UA Manger's Attack Exploit

Security vulnerability in Java based OPC UA applications.

03.09.2019

Azure and Power BI - Updated Weather Station Demo

Azure and Power BI offer a straightforward and powerful way to visualize data from your OPC UA servers.

17.12.2018

OPC UA Getting Real and Real-time - Report from OPC Day Finland 2018

OPC UA is getting popular in real-world installations and also going towards real-time with the latest announcements about support for field level.

12.10.2018

Getting Started with OPC UA (Videos)

Watch the short videos to get a quick overview of how to get started with OPC UA end-user products or with development. They are represented by Jouni Aro, the CTO of Prosys OPC.

18.09.2018

OPC UA Buffer Overflow Exploit

Security vulnerability in the OPC UA Java Stack.

20.06.2018

OPC UA XML External Entity (XXE) Exploit

Security vulnerability in the OPC UA Java Stack.

20.06.2018

OPC UA User Authentication Token Exploit

Security vulnerability in the OPC UA Java Stack.

20.06.2018

OPC UA Security Process

The process used to handle security issues in OPC UA components

23.02.2018

DCOM issues in recent Windows updates

This blog post intends to document DCOM issues in recent Windows 10 updates.

25.10.2017

OPC UA is Enabling Smart Manufacturing - Report from OPC Day Finland 2017

Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet Consortium, Made in China 2025, etc. are adopting OPC UA as the Communication Protocol of Choice.

27.07.2017

Developing OPC UA applications in Android Studio

A short tutorial on how to start developing an OPC UA application in Android Studio.

14.06.2017

OPC Day Europe 2017 - OPC UA is the Industry 4.0 Communication

OPC UA is now the Industry 4.0 Communication. Read the report from OPC Day Europe 2017.

04.05.2017

Connecting OPC UA to Azure - Weather Station Demo

We experimented with presenting OPC UA data in Azure by creating a simple Azure web site where we are able to monitor the climate in our office.

09.12.2016

OPC Day Finland 2016 - Presentations Online

See Stefan Hoppe, Matthias Damm, Miriam Schleipen and other experts talking about latest news and technical details online

29.08.2016

OPC Day Europe 2016 - Industry 4.0 is committed to OPC UA

OPC UA is catching fire due to Industry 4.0. Read the report from OPC Day Europe 2016.

02.08.2016

Oracle database with embedded OPC UA

Oracle has recently endorsed OPC UA in its reference IoT (Internet of Things) architecture. In this solution OPC UA acts as a bridge between plant devices and plant management layers. In our recent customer case we integrated our Java OPC UA client directly with the Oracle database handling the plant data, enabling

04.05.2016

Configuring Prosys OPC UA Modbus Server

A short tutorial on how to configure the Prosys OPC UA Modbus Server.

23.11.2015

OPC Day Finland 2015 - Watch the Presentations Online

See Stefan Hoppe, Matthias Damm, Miriam Schleipen and other experts talking about latest news and technical details online

27.05.2015

OPC Day Europe 2015 - OPC UA goes to the cloud, open source and towards real-time!

Prosys sponsored the OPC Day Europe 2015 in Paris on May 19th and 20th

09.04.2015

Oracle recommends using Java for the Internet of Things

New white paper on Java and the Internet of Things

02.02.2015

Prosys OPC UA Java SDK is now officially certified

With the release of version 2.1.0, our Java SDK is now officially certified to comply with the OPC UA 1.02 standard.

10.10.2014

OPC and MES Day Finland 2014: Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0

Report of the successful event at Dipoli, Espoo, arranged by Finnish Society of Automation and sponsored by Prosys

22.08.2014

Prosys OPC UA Web Client released

Developing Java SDK powered OPC UA applications in Javascript

11.07.2014

Prosys OPC UA Java SDK 2.0 Release: Using Code Generated Classes

24.06.2014

Hadoop and Hive integration with OPC UA

The big data seems to be the talk of the town at the moment. Enterprises in various fields are utilizing the concept, or at least say they do. This blog post tries to shed some light on the murky concept, along with introducing a demo case of Hadoop and OPC UA integration.

10.06.2014

Redesigned prosysopc.com released

After months of work the redesigned version of our Prosys OPC website has been launched today.

04.06.2014

Using Java Mission Control for performance monitoring

This blog post intends to give some insight into what the monitoring and diagnostics tool Oracle Java Mission Control (JMC) is and how it can be used to investigate Java application performance.

08.05.2014

OPC UA in the Internet of Things

The idea of connecting things other than dedicated computing devices to the Internet is by no means new. Various examples such as remotely controlled coffeemakers or refrigerators reporting their contents have circulated for several decades, but up until recently they have been little more than anecdotal in nature.

14.04.2014

Heartbleed Bug in OpenSSL

OpenSSL has a serious vulnerability, called the “Heartbleed Bug”.

07.04.2014

Opening Day at Hannover Messe

It is the opening day for Hannover Messe, and yes it is a good day for us. There is definitely an increasing demand for Java based OPC UA tools and applications.

03.04.2014

Information modeling features in the upcoming UA SDK

The release of the 2.0 version of our Java SDK is just around the corner. In the new version, we are introducing new features that should help you to use information models in your UA applications.

13.03.2014

Source for Raspberry Pi demo released

We thought that it might be useful to show how our Raspberry Pi demo is done, so here are the sources.

11.02.2014

Simulation Server Beta

Prosys OPC UA Java Server has gone through major rework/development to become Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server.

20.12.2013

OPC UA 1.02

The OPC Foundation has recently released the version 1.02 of the specification and the stack components along with some sample applications and a new version of the Local Discovery Server (LDS).

04.12.2013

GM applying OPC UA in production

General Motors have given a presentation at the ARC World Industry Forum about their new MES/automation link, which they have based on OPC UA.

24.10.2013

Raspberry Pi demo updates

Our Raspberry Pi weather station demo has been upgraded.

22.10.2013

OPC and MES Day Finland 2013

OPC and MES Day Finland 2013 was held last week (Oct 15th) in Hotel Rosendahl, Tampere.

04.10.2013

OPC Day Italy 2013

OPC Day Italy 2013 was held in Bologna on October 3rd

14.08.2013

Raspberry Pi + Java SDK based OPC UA weather station

We often get questions about developing to ARM platform using our Java SDK. This has been proven to be possible by our QEMU + ARM test setup. We decided that it would be nice to have also some demo running on real hardware.

17.06.2013

Subscribing to a very large number of Nodes in a Prosys OPC UA Java SDK based Server

This one is from one of our customers, Daniel Fernandez Boada from Bergauer AG, who is describing an ingenious way to subscribe to a huge number of changing data in an aggregating OPC UA server.

20.05.2013

OPC Day Europe 2013

Yokogawa hosted the third annual OPC Day Europe in their European headquarters in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Yokogawa provided great facilities for the event that gathered up 150 OPC enthusiasts from all over the Europe.

19.04.2013

QEMU + ARM test setup

From time to time we get inquiries regarding OPC UA server and client application suitability and performance on ARM platforms. This blog post is intended to serve as a starting point for users interested in testing Prosys Java applications on ARM platform virtual machine.

19.04.2013

Prosys OPC at Hannover Messe

Prosys OPC attended Hannover Messe 2013 in the second week of April. The leading industrial trade show in Europe gathered up 6 550 exhibitors from 62 nations and total of 225 000 attendees.

01.02.2013

New OPC UA Applications

Three new OPC UA products were released this week: OPC UA Java Client, OPC UA Android Client and OPC UA Java Server, all of them developed with the best OPC UA SDK in the market: Prosys OPC UA Java SDK.

16.01.2013

Custom UA Enum Types in Java SDK

Creating your own enumeration type and using it the server is not as straight forward as it first seems, but it is not very complicated either. You just need to get it done right.

04.12.2012

Prosys OPC at SPS/IPC/Drives 2012

Prosys OPC attended SPS/IPC/Drives 2012 in Nuremberg, Germany last week. The three-day exhibition gathered up almost 57 000 visitors and 1 458 exhibitors, Prosys OPC being one of the exhibitors at OPC Foundation booth.

28.11.2012

OPC UA For ISA95

The OPC Foundation has been developing several companion specifications to the OPC UA. One of these is OPC UA For ISA95, which is reaching the Release Candidate phase already.

16.11.2012

Prosys OPC at IAS 2012, Shanghai

Prosys OPC attended Industrial Automation Show 2012 in Shanghai China last week. During the five-day exhibition approximately 100 000 visitors had a change to take a look what’s going on in the various fields of industrial automation, introduced by more than 500 exhibitors.

15.10.2012

OPC and MES Day & OPC UA Workshop 2012

The annual OPC Day Finland was held for the 8th time last week on Tuesday. For the first time in its history it was organized with MES people, combining both OPC and MES tracks.

11.09.2012

OPC UA & Wireshark

Wireshark is a great tool for sniffing network traffic. It contains several pre-defined filters for various protocols – and yes, also OPC UA!

12.07.2012

Using Complex DataTypes

One of the great things in OPC UA is that when the base information models don’t fit your needs quite well enough, there are many options to extend the specifications. One common case where it’s nice to be able to extend the base spec is with Complex DataTypes.

29.05.2012

OPC Day Europe 2012

Prosys was sponsoring OPC Day Europe 2012 in Reinach, Switzerland on May 16th. The first OPC Day Europe was held in 2011, thus this year OPC Day Europe was organized for the second time and hosted by Endress+Hauser.

24.04.2012

Connecting OPC Classic to OPC UA with OPC UA Gateway

We get frequent questions about how to use OPC Unified Architecture in conjunction with OPC Classic servers. Regardless of the new technical details of OPC UA, we cannot get around the fact that majority of the communication systems worldwide are still running OPC Classic servers.

24.02.2012

Developing OPC UA for Android

I thought I’d share a few pointers about developing OPC UA on Android, since our Prosys OPC UA Java SDK has supported Android from version 1.3 onwards.

26.01.2012

OPC UA Sessions, Subscriptions and Timeouts

In this article I will try to clarify all the various parameters of OPC UA communications, especially related to the various timeouts that are available. They provide a flexible means to control the connection between the UA client and server, both on the client and server side, but it is not always very clear which parameter is which and what is the actual effect of each.

26.01.2012

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