Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Manual page 26

Function
OPC UA
Configuration control
SIMATIC Drive Controller
Equipment Manual, 11/2019, A5E46600370-AA
With OPC UA, you can exchange data via an open and manufac-
turer-neutral communication protocol. The CPU can act as an
OPC UA DA server. The CPU acting as the OPC UA server can
communicate with OPC UA clients.
The OPC UA Companion Specification allows methods to be speci-
fied uniformly and independently of the manufacturer. Using these
specified methods, you can easily integrate devices from various
manufacturers into your plants and production processes.
You can use configuration control to operate different real hardware
configurations with a configured maximum configuration of the
hardware. This means especially in series machine manufacturing
you have the option of operating/configuring different configuration
variants of a machine with a single project.
Description
Product overview
2.4 Firmware functions of the CPU
Additional information
Communication function
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