OPC Foundation President & Executive Director Joins RTI CEO to Share Details and Strategies for the Collaborative Implementation of Two Connectivity Standards
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—June 7, 2016—Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity platform company, today announced it is hosting a complimentary webinar, "The Inside Story: How OPC UA and DDS Can Work Together in Industrial Systems" in partnership with OPC Foundation, an industry consortium that creates and maintains standards for open connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems.
The Object Management Group® (OMG®) and the OPC Foundation recently announced a collaborative strategy for the two leading connectivity standards for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)—the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) and the OPC United Architecture (OPC UA) standard. The two standards organizations, together with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), Industrie 4.0, and leading DDS and OPC UA vendors, will lead this strategy to enable immediate Industrial IoT market adoption.
In this webinar, Stan Schneider, CEO of RTI, and Thomas J. Burke, OPC Foundation President & Executive Director, will outline a strategy for the integration of these standards and discuss how they are largely complementary and compatible. Attendees will learn how these standards are important to the future of the IIoT and how companies such as GE, Honeywell, National Instruments, SAP and Siemens are supporting the strategy.
Event Details
What: "The Inside Story: How OPC UA and DDS Can Work Together in Industrial Systems" complimentary webinar
When: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. PT/11:00 a.m. ET
Speaker: Stan Schneider, Chief Executive Officer at RTI, and Thomas J. Burke, President & Executive Director at OPC Foundation.
For more information, including speaker biographies, and to register for this free event, please visit: http://bit.ly/1U9CuJm.
Full details regarding the formal announcement of this collaboration can be found in the press release: http://bit.ly/1NQBmOy.
About RTI
RTI provides the connectivity platform for the Industrial Internet of Things.
Our RTI Connext® messaging software forms the core nervous system for smart, distributed applications. RTI Connext DDS allows devices to intelligently share information and work together as one integrated system. RTI was named "The Most influential Industrial Internet of Things Company" in 2014 by Appinions and published in Forbes.
Our customers span the breadth of the Internet of Things, including medical, energy, mining, air traffic control, trading, automotive, unmanned systems, industrial SCADA, naval systems, air and missile defense, ground stations, and science. The total value of system designs that trust RTI for their fundamental architecture exceeds $1 trillion.
RTI is committed to open standards, open community source and open architecture. RTI provides the leading implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard.
RTI is the world's largest embedded middleware provider, privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
