4 General information to glass technology and OPC UA

4.1 Introduction to glass technology

4.1.2 Relevance to OPC UA Model

For OPC UA modelling it is required to respect main characteristics of flat glass processing:
- Glass processing is very individual and a good example of industrial batch size of a production.
- As a result, all machinery must be able to receive information on single glass element base in contrast to mass production.
- Glass processing is very often based on intensive co-working between machine and human. Thus, processes with non-digitized interfaces shall be possible.