The power management company, Eaton, works in order to offer their clients solutions to energy

challenges that are efficient while tackling electric, hydraulic and mechanical power uses. Eaton has

stated that they have managed to adjust their practices in order to make sure that they work within the

OPC Unified Architecture Standard. This standard has now been put in to the company’s processes and

their control schemes.

In order to implement the OPC Standards the company has had to adapt a number of their products in

order to make sure that they can be IoT-ready and can then be put in to different environments and

perform in an effective manner. Eaton focuses on making sure that their products are suited to smart

factories, and the adaptations to the solutions implemented needed to occur in order to make sure that

there is the possibility for a simple path of communication between the different machines in the

factory. The factory managers also have to be integrated in to these communications as well as the

machines that work with cloud operated services.

Eaton has a range of different solutions that can help their client’s machines and machine builders

ensure that their equipment is utilized for IoT ready. It is thought that company that are looking for a

solution that mixes operation and control system solution for their more compact machines. Eaton

offers an XV300 HMI/PLC solution that has an OPC UA server integrated in to it has been suggested as

the perfect option for the smaller machines.

Eaton has been making sure their clients are able to get access to power management solutions in a safe

and sustainable manner. The power management company focuses of making sure that industries are

actively trying to improve the environment by using technology that makes sure that businesses are

being efficient with their power usage.