5.5 Engineering support from existing NameSpaces

The use case of Jeff, a design engineer at a plant and machinery company, is similar to the before mentioned scenario of Abby, the OT engineer at a steel welder machine manufacturer. The difference is that Jeff needs to compose a new production line for his customer and many components of this production line are provided by suppliers who – like Jeffs company – deliver their machines and devices with NameSpaces. As these suppliers publish their OPC UA NameSpaces to the Cloud Library, it is a tremendous work simplification for Jeff, that he can – similar to Abby – find and download all relevant NameSpaces and merge them into the OPC UA server’s AddressSpace of the whole production line. Jeff will certainly also upload the resulting NameSpace to the Cloud Library, so that his customer can prepare the corresponding OPC UA Client and system landscape integration way before the new production line is physically installed at his customers premises.