Northbound Interfaces

Your portal to the cloud or supervising systems.

In automation technology, the term “northbound interface” refers to those interfaces through which communication with higher levels of the information and control system takes place. This enables data exchange between the WinCC OA project and higher-level systems, such as MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or analysis and reporting systems.

Subsequently, these interfaces are essential for production planning, resource management, quality assurance or long-term analyses.

For this purpose, WinCC OA provides several drivers and managers, which can be extended as required by in-house developments via the WinCC OA APIs (C++ API and C# API) or NodeJS.