I am looking over Clearwater Beach, Florida from a terrace at the Hyatt Regency Hotel while on break from the 30th anniversary and 23rd Annual Membership Meeting of ODVA.
This morning’s event included the report of the Technical Review Board and the various Special Interest working Groups. I have some experience from years ago as a member and leader of this type of organization. Members work hard, but at least these days (unlike in my day) physical presence is exchanged with virtual meetings.
The most impressive part of the meeting for me was organization. Eleven chairpeople spoke, yet the time flew. Each rose to the platform, explained the work accomplished during the past year, and concluded with plans for the next 12-18 months. If only more meetings followed this format!
Explaining all the details would have little general interest. Most work was done in the guts of the specifications cleaning up and updating information. Much work went into preparing the specifications for full implementation of IPv6. The hype moment of Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) seems past, but the SIGs continued some work on this. Single-pair Ethernet, Power over Ethernet, and collaboration with I/O Link work continued. Work integrating various specifications with the recent concurrent connections continued. Process Industries group continued working on device profiles.
Reports came from these SIGs, showing the breadth of involvement of members:
- System Architecture
- EtherNet/IP System Architecture
- CIP Security
- Infrastructure
- Physical Layer
- CIP Safety
- Distributed Motion and Time Synchronization
- Common Industrial Cloud Infrastructure
- Process Industries
- I/O Link Integration
- Conformance
