OPC 10000-80: UAFX Part 80: Overview and Concepts

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2022-11-08

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1 Scope 2 Reference documents 3 Terms, definitions, and abbreviated terms 3.1 Terms and definitions 3.1.1 Asset 3.1.2 AutomationComponent 3.1.3 Compute 3.1.4 Controller 3.1.5 ConnectionManager 3.1.6 Controller-to-Compute 3.1.7 Controller-to-Controller 3.1.8 Controller-to-Device 3.1.9 Connection 3.1.10 Descriptor 3.1.11 Device-to-Compute 3.1.12 Device-to-Device 3.1.13 FunctionalEntity 3.1.14 OfflineEngineering 3.2 Abbreviated terms 3.3 Conventions used in this document 4 Structure of the OPC UA FX specification 4.1 OPC UA FX specification parts 4.2 Architecture 5 Overview 5.1 Motivation 5.2 The UAFX Solution 5.3 Interaction Model 5.4 Engineering workflow 5.4.1 General 5.4.2 Actors 5.4.2.1 Overview 5.4.2.2 Controls Engineer 5.4.2.3 Network Engineer 5.4.2.4 Security Administrator 5.4.2.5 System Commissioner 5.4.3 Application engineering 5.4.4 Security configuration 5.4.5 Network configuration 5.4.6 System integration 6 UAFX Concepts 6.1 Controller-to-Controller communication 6.2 UAFX Information Model 6.3 Networking and TSN 6.4 OfflineEngineering 6.5 Profiles