Simulation of Pick and Place Factory Automation Process using Application Programming Interface

Industry 4.0 or I4.0 is an advanced technology which can upgrade the facilities in small to large scale industries. It is possible to monitor and access date from any machine or a process from a remote place through internet. The smart industrial sensors used in various process can send the data from a server to the client via modern machine to machine communication protocol like Modbus, Message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) and Open platform communication - unified architecture (OPC-UA). The controllers installed and commissioned in industries several years before might not able to utilize these communication protocols. It needs an IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) device to overcome the technical glitch. In this project, a new approach is proposed to implement opc-ua communication protocol to communicate between an industrial controller and an application programming interface.