CLPA设立全球战略顾问职位

CLPA Establishes Global Strategic Advisor Role
CLPA设立全球战略顾问职位

CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA), which promotes the widespread usage of the CC-Link open industrial network family, is pleased to announce the creation of a global strategic advisor role and has recruited Mr. Thomas J. Burke to fill this position of critical importance to its future development.

促进CC-Link开放工业网络家族广泛使用的CC-Link协会(CLPA)很高兴地宣布设立一个全球战略顾问的职务，并已聘请Thomas J. Burke博士担任这一对其未来发展至关重要的职位。

About Thomas J. Burke
关于Thomas J. Burke

Thomas J. Burke is the past president and executive director of the OPC Foundation. Thomas is the founding leader of the OPC Foundation, which is focused on delivering the best specifications, technology, process and certification necessary to achieve multi-vendor multiplatform secure reliable information integration across disparate devices and applications from the factory floor to the enterprise.

Thomas J. Burke是OPC基金会的前任主席和执行董事。Thomas是OPC基金会的创始人，该基金会致力于提供最佳规范、技术、流程和认证，以实现从工厂到企业的不同设备和应用之间的多供应商多平台安全可靠的信息集成。

About CC-Link IE TSN
关于CC-Link IE TSN

CC-Link IE TSN combines the gigabit bandwidth of CC-Link IE with Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) to meet future automation market demands, such as Industry 4.0. This provides flexible integration of Operational Technology (OT) and IT while further strengthening performance and functionality. A comprehensive portfolio of device development options is also ensuring that any vendor can easily add this technology to their product line-up. The aim is to improve efficiency and reduce time to market for Smart Factories utilizing the IIoT and the products they manufacture. As of April 2020, a year and a half after the announcement of the CC-Link IE TSN specifications, more than 100 partner products have been released or are under development.

CC-Link IE TSN将CC-Link IE的千兆位带宽与时间敏感网络相融合，以满足未来自动化市场的需求，如工业4.0。这提供了操作技术（OT）和信息技术（IT）的灵活集成，同时进一步增强了性能和功能。设备开发选项的全面组合也确保了任何供应商都可以轻松地将这项技术添加到他们的产品线中。目标是帮助智能工厂利用工业物联网提高效率、缩短产品上市时间。截至2020年4月，在CC-Link IE TSN规范发布一年半后，已有100多种兼容产品发布或正在开发中。

Global Strategic Advisor
全球战略顾问

Thomas J Burke, in his role of global strategic advisor for CLPA, is primarily responsible for:

• Increasing awareness and adoption of CC-Link IE TSN in the global marketplace,
• Advising CLPA leadership on industry trends, standards and market strategy, 
• Sustaining and increasing the number of CLPA partners from North America,
• Facilitating collaboration with suppliers and end-users to maintain CLPA’s industry leading position and
• Collaborating with other industry standards organizations, focusing on harmonization across industry-standard organizations.

Thomas J Burke作为CLPA全球战略顾问，主要负责:

• 在全球市场上不断提高对C-Link IE TSN网络的认识和采用，
• 就行业趋势、标准和市场战略向CLPA领导层提供建议，
• 维持和增加北美CLPA合作伙伴的数量，
• 促进与供应商和最终用户的合作，以保持CLPA的行业领先地位，以及
• 与其他行业标准组织合作，专注于跨行业标准组织的协调。

By leveraging his unique assets and experiences from the OPC Foundation, Thomas will be the perfect fit to achieve the aim of CLPA global strategic advisor. He will work synergistically with the other CLPA branches to help companies across a wide range of different industries such as automotive, semiconductor, machine tools and food & beverage understand how the CLPA’s industry leading technologies clearly provide a way to increase their competitive advantage.  

通过利用其在OPC基金会的独特资源和经验，Thomas将是实现CLPA全球战略顾问目标的最佳人选。他将与CLPA的其他分支机构通力合作，帮助汽车、半导体、机床和食品饮料等众多不同行业的公司了解CLPA的行业领先技术是如何明显提高其竞争优势的。