Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation Announce Liaison Agreement
數字孿生聯盟和OPC基金會宣布簽署聯絡協議

Feb.6, 2023 - Today at the ARC Forum 2023, Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) and OPC Foundation announced a liaison agreement to accelerate the development and adoption of digital twin-enabling technologies. The DTC and the OPC Foundation have worked closely in several open-source reference implementation projects on GitHub and have agreed to collaborate even closer.

2023年2月6日 - 今天，在ARC2023論壇上，數字孿生聯盟（DTC）和OPC基金會宣布了一項聯絡協議，以加速數字孿生技術的開發和采用。數字孿生聯盟和OPC基金會在GitHub上的幾個開源參考實施項目中進行了密切合作，并同意進行更密切的合作。

“We are excited about working with OPC Foundation,” said Dan Isaacs, GM, and CTO of DTC. "Through our collaboration, we will influence interoperability standards and processes that will advance the use of digital twins in manufacturing across many industries.”

“我們很高興與OPC基金會合作，”數字孿生聯盟總經理兼首席技術官Dan Isaacs說。“通過我們的合作，我們將影響互操作性標準和流程，從而推動數字孿生在許多行業制造中的使用。”

The DTC and OPC Foundation have agreed to the following activities:

·Collaborating on standardization requirements

·Realizing interoperability by harmonizing technology components and other elements

·Aligning work in horizontal domains for adoption in vertical domains and use cases, proof of concepts, and Value Innovation Platforms (VIP) programs, including:
  Technology, terminology, and taxonomy
  Security and trustworthiness
  Conceptual, informational, structural, and behavioral models
  Enabling technologies, such as simulation and AI
  Technology stack across the digital twin lifecycle
  Case study development

·Developing and understanding open-source reference implementations

數字孿生聯盟和OPC基金會同意展開如下活動：

· 在標準化要求方面進行合作
· 通過協調技術組件和其他元素，實現互操作性
· 調整橫向領域的工作，以便在垂直領域和用例、概念驗證和價值創新平臺（VIP）計劃中采用，包括：
    · 技術、術語和分類
    · 安全可信
    · 概念、信息、結構和行為模型
    · 使能技術，例如仿真和人工智能
    · 跨越數字孿生生命周期的技術堆棧
    · 案例研究開發

· 開發和了解開源的參考實施方案

Stefan Hoppe, President OPC Foundation, said, “The OPC Foundation maintains the global standard for secure industrial interoperability for information modeling and data exchange, which, as part of this relationship with DTC, benefits all who wish to create semantically identical digital twins. Our involvement to liaise with DTC further strengthens the user’s ability to model each data aspect quickly and precisely, creating and interacting with any digital twin. Digital twins will be fully compatible with the OPC UA framework used in the run-time components within the operational domain.”

OPC基金會主席Stefan Hoppe表示：“OPC基金會維護著信息建模和數據交換的安全工業互操作性的全球標準，作為與數字孿生聯盟關系的一部分，這將使所有希望創建語義相同的數字孿生的人受益。我們與數字孿生聯盟的聯絡，進一步加強了用戶快速精確地對每個數據方面進行建模、創建任何數字孿生模型并與之交互的能力。數字孿生將與操作域內運行時組件中使用的OPC UA框架完全兼容。”

“As one of the key contributors to Digital Twin Consortium’s open-source program, Microsoft saw the rising demand for open digital twin technology and industrial interoperability standards like OPC UA. The collaboration of OPC Foundation and DTC will continue to elevate the impact of digital twin technologies. These two organizations have already started collaborating on open-source projects and these projects will expand to include emerging technologies,” said Erich Barnstedt, Chief Architect Standards, Consortia and Industrial IoT, Azure Edge + Platform, Microsoft Corporation.

微軟公司Azure Edge+平臺標準、聯盟和工業物聯網首席架構師Erich Barnstedt說：“作為數字孿生聯盟開源計劃的主要貢獻者之一，微軟看到了對開放式數字孿生技術和OPC UA等工業互操作性標準的需求不斷上升。OPC基金會和數字孿生聯盟的合作將繼續提升數字孿生技術的影響力。這兩個組織已經開始在開源項目上進行合作，這些項目將擴大到包括新興技術。”

Both consortia will exchange information through regular consultations, joint contributor relations, seminars, open-source projects, and other activities.

兩大聯盟將通過定期磋商、聯合貢獻者關系、研討會、開源項目和其他活動來交流信息。