| COMPANY: | General Motors |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Detroit |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | 1,000 or more employees; more than $1B in revenue |
| INDUSTRY: | Automotive supplier |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | GM cars and trucks |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | OPC-UA Specification Implementation in a Production Environment |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To prove that an architecture leveraging OPC-UA to facilitate communications to a variety of industrial controllers can simplify integrating manufacturing and enterprise applications in a production environment |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | deviceWISE Enterprise Edition (HP-UX and Unix), ILS Technology, Rockwell PLC, Siemens PLC |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Streamlined processes to integrate new data points into enterprise applications; improved sustainability of existing systems; reduced time to deploy new systems; reduced dependency on proprietary device protocols and custom applications to communicate with devices; lowered cost to maintain existing proprietary device-to-enterprise communications |