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🔗 Standardizing OPC UA Models for Complex Manufacturing: Lessons from Battery Cell Production ⚡🔋

In today’s era of digital transformation, manufacturing industries are under constant pressure to improve interoperability 🔄, data transparency 📊, and process optimization ⚙️. This becomes even more challenging in domains with heterogeneous and complex process chains, where machines, processes, and data systems must speak the same language.

🌐 The Challenge of Seamless Data Exchange

To enable smooth data sharing across different systems, manufacturers must standardize both data syntax and semantics 📑—all while ensuring compatibility with existing industry standards 🏭. Without this, digitalization efforts can become fragmented and costly.

💡 Our Methodology for OPC UA Model Development

Our research presents a methodology for designing standardizable and reusable OPC UA information models tailored for industries with high process variability and interdisciplinary demands 🧩. The approach integrates:

• System Analysis 🔍 – Understanding the full production ecosystem.

• Parameter Mapping 📐 – Identifying how different data points connect.

• Modular Submodel Development 🧱 – Creating reusable building blocks.

• Expert Validation 👨‍🔬 – Ensuring accuracy and practicality.

We also emphasize the reuse and extension of existing OPC UA Companion Specifications to reduce complexity, avoid redundancy, and support long-term standardization 📏.

🔋 Case Study: Battery Cell Production

Battery manufacturing combines process engineering 🧪 with mechanical engineering 🔧 and involves both continuous and discrete processes.
However, it faces unique challenges:

• 🚫 No existing domain-specific standards.

• 🔀 High degree of heterogeneity.

By applying our methodology, we developed a layered OPC UA framework that merges cross-industry standards with process-aware elements. This framework was refined through iterative expert workshops 🗣️ and structured model validation ✅.

📈 Real-World Benefits & Use Cases

The resulting model enables:

• Traceability 🔍 – Tracking every step in production.

• Regulatory Reporting 📄 – Supporting initiatives like the EU Battery Passport 🇪🇺.

• Process Optimization ⚡ – Enhancing efficiency and reducing waste.

🌟 A Scalable Blueprint for the Future

This approach offers a scalable and transferable solution for other manufacturing domains facing similar complexity. By combining broad applicability with domain-specific depth, it sets a new standard for interoperable, transparent, and future-ready manufacturing systems 🚀.

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