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Product PI Interfaces
Categories General
Created by Brian Rock
Created on May 16, 2023

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PI Interface for OPC UA

While it is understood that adapters are the future of data source connectivity; there is an immediate need for existing PI system users (especially in the Chemical industry) to transition their data sources from using OPC DA to OPC UA. Many of the popular control system vendors are now strongly suggesting to use OPC UA instead of DA. With the upcoming mandatory DCOM changes there is even more of a need. The reason for an interface for this, as opposed to moving to adapters, is that the philosophy behind adapters is not compatible with how users interact with interfaces. Interfaces have the ability to write data to the data source while connectors and adapters do not. Interface allow users to manually create tags and adjust classic parameters as needed where connectors and adapters offer a plug and play system. This is fine for new systems but not manageable for systems that have tags and processes in place for years. Creating an OPC UA interface would help your existing customers move away from OPC DA quicker and provide them a familiar set of tools for monitoring and configuring tags.

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  • Justin Jackson
    Sep 29, 2025

    It would be really nice if AVEVA would come out with an OPC UA Interface. While there are advantages to using Data Connectors in some situations, Interfaces are a time tested and simple solution to collect and send data to the DA. I appreciate the simple communication path of interface directly to DA over one TCP port. Data Connectors require multiple pieces of software, inbound and outbound ports, etc that make them not the ideal choice in some scenarios. I've also had reliability issues with the OPC UA connector in several cases. With the lack of a PI OPC UA Interface we typically resort to using a middleware such as Kepware to interface to the OPC UA server, and then use the PI OPC DA interface to get the data into PI from Kepware. This method works great and is a simple setup but adds additional software and expenses. A PI OPC UA Interface would solve a lot of problems and provide a simple solution for OPC UA communications since it is becoming more and more the standard.

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  • Juan Torres
    Jun 19, 2025

    AVEVA is there any updates about this topic??

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