OPC UA Companion Specifications
By default,
FactoryTalk Optix Studio
provides limited support for selected OPC UA Companion Specifications
.Supported Companion Specifications
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. |
Struct variable values are not supported | All types derived from structure created by FactoryTalk Optix Studio contain an empty struct value. This includes companion specification types.Imported variable items with datatype structure or inherited from structure have an empty struct value. |
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