Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation Announce Liaison Agreement
数字孪生联盟和OPC基金会宣布签署联络协议
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论坛上，数字孪生联盟（DTC）和OPC基金会宣布了一项联络协议，以加速数字孪生技术的开发和采用。数字孪生联盟和OPC基金会在GitHub上的几个开源参考实施项目中进行了密切合作，并同意进行更密切的合作。
“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.”
“我们很高兴与OPC基金会合作，”数字孪生联盟总经理兼首席技术官Dan Isaacs说。“通过我们的合作，我们将影响互操作性标准和流程，从而推动数字孪生在许多行业制造中的使用。”
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
数字孪生联盟和OPC基金会同意展开如下活动：
·在标准化要求方面进行合作
·通过协调技术组件和其他元素，实现互操作性
·调整横向领域的工作，以便在垂直领域和用例、概念验证和价值创新平台（VIP）计划中采用，包括：
  技术、术语和分类
  安全可信
  概念、信息、结构和行为模型
  使能技术，例如仿真和人工智能
  跨越数字孪生生命周期的技术堆栈
  案例研究开发
·开发和了解开源的参考实施方案
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基金会主席Stefan Hoppe表示：“OPC基金会维护着信息建模和数据交换的安全工业互操作性的全球标准，作为与数字孪生联盟关系的一部分，这将使所有希望创建语义相同的数字孪生的人受益。我们与数字孪生联盟的联络，进一步加强了用户快速精确地对每个数据方面进行建模、创建任何数字孪生模型并与之交互的能力。数字孪生将与操作域内运行时组件中使用的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.
微软公司Azure Edge+平台标准、联盟和工业物联网首席架构师Erich Barnstedt说：“作为数字孪生联盟开源计划的主要贡献者之一，微软看到了对开放式数字孪生技术和OPC UA等工业互操作性标准的需求不断上升。OPC基金会和数字孪生联盟的合作将继续提升数字孪生技术的影响力。这两个组织已经开始在开源项目上进行合作，这些项目将扩大到包括新兴技术。”
Both consortia will exchange information through regular consultations, joint contributor relations, seminars, open-source projects, and other activities.
两大联盟将通过定期磋商、联合贡献者关系、研讨会、开源项目和其他活动来交流信息。