OPC UA Companion Specifications

By default,
FactoryTalk Optix Studio
 provides limited support for selected
OPC UA Companion Specifications
.

Supported
Companion Specifications

By default, you can use these
Companion Specifications
 in
FactoryTalk Optix Studio
:
  • DI
  • PackML
  • Machinery
  • Weihenstephan
  • PADIM
  • TMC v2
To add support for more
Companion Specifications
, import them into your project. If the imported
Companion Specifications
 do not comply with the OPC UA requirements,
FactoryTalk Optix Studio
 displays warnings.
Type view
 contains the available
Companion Specifications
 nodes in the
Companion specifications
 folder.

Limitations

Limitation
Description
Optional object instance declarations are not created
For example,
WSMachineType
 is an object of the
Weihenstephan
 specification. It contains an optional object instance declaration (
Counters
), which is not created.
EU variables are duplicated when they are shared by different parents
When vendors declare an Engineering Unit variable and reference it from multiple nodes, the Engineering Unit variables are duplicated for each node that references the Engineering Unit.
Only one parent node is displayed
If you import an information model with nodes referenced by more than one node with an Aggregates reference or Organizes reference or inherited references, you import only one node.
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