OPC UA

FactoryTalk Optix Studio
is compliant with the OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) standard and can communicate with any OPC UA client or server.
TIP: Devices with a configured
FactoryTalk Optix Application
can operate as an OPC UA client or server.

Components

Use these OPC UA components to develop your application logic:

Communication

Your system needs to meet the minimum security policy and message security mode to allow for communication between OPC UA components. For more information, see OPC UA communications security and OPC UA certificates and keys.

Companion Specifications

Use predefined Companion Specifications or import and export Companion Specifications. See OPC UA Companion Specifications.

Localized nodes

When an OPC UA client (see Add an OPC UA client) imports nodes from an OPC UA server (see Add an OPC UA server), any localized text variable value is imported as a translation key and not as localized text. To display the text box with text on the client device, see Add a locale language to a localization dictionary and import the localization dictionary from the server. For non-FTOptix servers, use the
Connection Locale ID
property of the OPC UA client. The client then connects using that locale ID and the server sends the value of localized text variables as localized texts with that locale ID.
In addition to importing the localization dictionary, you must specify a locale to the
Localization/Locales
property, add a new user with the Language property set to the locale, and then specify that user as the starting user in the native presentation engine object.
Provide Feedback
Have questions or feedback about this documentation? Please submit your feedback here.