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OPC Foundation extends to digital twins and the metaverse 20/03/2023 The OPC Foundation (OPCF) and the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) have announced a liaison agreement to accelerate the development and adoption of digital twin-enabling technologies. Full Story...
The OPC Foundation welcomes Procter & Gamble as its 900th member 14/02/2023 The OPC Foundation is proud to welcome Procter & Gamble as the 900th OPC Foundation member. Full Story...
Industrial Ethernet Security Harmonization Group whitepaper 28/11/2022 The major standards development organisations, including OPC Foundation, PI, ODVA and FieldComm Group, have released the first whitepaper of their joint working group which is called the Industrial Ethernet Security Harmonization Group (IESHG). Full Story...
Joint consortium standardises Power Consumption Management interface 20/06/2022 A new interface standard for the acquisition of energy consumption data in industrial manufacturing is being developed by ODVA, OPC Foundation, PI, and VDMA based on OPC UA. Full Story...
Establishing OPC UA as THE open standard of choice for data interoperability 21/03/2022 The dream has become reality – says Stefan Hoppe – one accepted operational technology (OT) to information technology (IT) connection based on OPC UA via MQTT and supported by all major vendors. Full Story...
OPC reaches FLC initiative milestone 13/12/2021 Three years after its launch, the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative has completed the second release candidate of the OPC UA FX (Field eXchange) specifications and has started the review and release process for them. Full Story...
Simple but secure: “OPC UA to Cloud” initiatives 02/06/2021 "Simple but secure"- this is how the OPC Foundation will present multiple "OPC UA for Cloud" initiatives at the virtual OPC Day International - among others with the OPC UA IIoT Starter Kit. OPC UA scales information from the field via TCP, UDP, TSN, APL, 5G and MQTT to the IT/cloud. User reports e.g. from equinor about 190,000 data points connected with OPC UA to cloud are topic of the free conference. Full Story...
From automation pyramid to information network 18/05/2021 From June 8-10, the OPC Foundation will host its second virtual OPC Day International – after last year's success with over 3000 participants, expectations are high. Stefan Hoppe explains why ‘OPC UA to cloud’ will be the main topic and why pure data protocols will play a subordinate role in the future. Full Story...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) joins OPC Foundation 16/02/2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the newest OPC Foundation member. Many manufacturers are adopting the AWS industrial data platform to take advantage of AI and machine learning capabilities needed to drive operational efficiencies in smart factories. Full Story...
ON DEMAND WEBINAR: OPC UA Security deep dive 07/12/2020 Industrial systems are vulnerable to attacks from within the local network and via the Internet as factories are connected to the cloud. OPC UA provides a cohesive foundation for building secure systems. An on demand to view webinar discusses the elements of the OPC UA architecture that facilitate the development, deployment and management of industrial systems that are resistant to cyberattacks. It will also cover what end-users need to do to make sure their systems are configured correctly. Full Story...
OPC Foundation welcomes Emerson to its board of directors 13/10/2020 The OPC Foundation has announced that Emerson has joined its board of directors and welcomes Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson Automation Solutions, as Emerson’s representative on the board of directors. Emerson has also joined the OPC Foundation Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative. Full Story...
OPC Foundation – the world library for the description of industrial things 28/01/2020 At the end of 2014, the then newly elected OPC Foundation Vice President, Stefan Hoppe, declared that OPC UA would achieve the status of a globally recognised standard of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by 2019 at the latest. Read this summary and update on the current status from trade fair SPS 2019. Full Story...
OPC UA Safety technical work has been completed 06/01/2020 PI, in cooperation with the OPC Foundation, has recently completed the technical work for OPC UA Safety. Full Story...
OPC UA: More than just a protocol 11/02/2019 In recent years, OPC UA has become a real ‘movement,’ that appears to be bringing industry together. There are currently around 50 industrial groups working on Companion specifications. The goal is for the creation of plug&play standardised information, which can then then exchanged via the OPC UA mechanism – optionally also with determinism at field level (but not into the public cloud). Full Story...
New President for OPC Foundation 05/11/2018 Stefan Hoppe has been elected President and Executive Director of the OPC Foundation following Thomas J. Burke’s nomination for his successor Full Story...
The OPC Foundation welcomes its 600th member 23/09/2018 The OPC Foundation has welcomed Volkswagen as its 600th OPC Foundation member. Full Story...
Secure data exchange: OPC UA guidelines 08/04/2018 A whitepaper entitled ‘Practical Security Recommendations’ offers guidance for industry on ensuring secure data exchange and communication. Full Story...
Secure and seamless communication with POWERLINK and OPC UA 26/02/2018 A joint announcement by the OPC Foundation and the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG) confirmed that an OPC UA companion specification is now available for POWERLINK. Full Story...
OPC UA Companion Standard for Sercos released 23/07/2017 The OPC Foundation and Sercos International have announced that the Sercos OPC UA Companion Specification Release is now available. Full Story...
OPC UA sees record growth in adoption 13/03/2017 In 2016 OPC UA experienced record growth in adoption, with industry analysts now forecasting that adoption will exceed 120 million installations by the end of 2017. Full Story...
Communication cooperation continues apace 30/01/2017 Suzanne Gill reports on the latest networking and communication protocol developments. Full Story...
TE Connectivity joins the OPC Foundation 25/09/2016 Connectivity and sensors company, TE Connectivity, has joined the OPC Foundation, a vendor-independent non-profit organisation which drives the development, maintenance and promotion of Openness Productivity Connectivity – Unified Architecture (OPC UA). Full Story...
A vendor-unifying communication standard 10/05/2016 Suzanne Gill spoke to automation vendors involved in the development of OPC-UA solutions to gather their thoughts on the technology and where it fits into their industry offerings. Full Story...
OPC Foundation and CLPA sign Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate communications in machine to IT systems 03/05/2016 Digitalisation in all areas of industrial automation requires consistent communications across all levels while using Internet technologies, both inside and outside of the factory, for example to cloud-based services. The OPC Foundation and the CLPA hope to achieve this by developing an interface specification with harmonised access. Full Story...
OPC UA and POWERLINK set to provide seamless communication from sensors to the ERP layer 30/11/2015 OPC Foundation and Ethernet Powerlink Standardisation Group (EPSG) have announced that they are set to create a solution to integrate communication from the sensor layer to the ERP layer – without the need for any interfaces. Full Story...
OPC Foundation certifies zenon OPC UA server 23/10/2012 COPA-DATA was one of the first providers to introduce a fully-developed OPC client in July 2009. A year later, the integration of the OPC UA server into zenon followed. This has now been certified by the OPC Foundation. Full Story...
OPC simplifies integration of process vision, quality control systems 08/03/2010 Logicpark, a Swiss engineering and system integration company, recently used the OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems to network an ABB quality control system to a new Viconsys process vision system at the Kimberly-Clark production facility in Niederbipp, Switzerland. Full Story...
OPC specification for ADI gets Malvern thumbs up 23/10/2009 Malvern Instruments has welcomed the release of the first OPC analyser device integration (ADI) specification. The UK headquartered company was one of the founding members of the working group established in 2008 to develop a common method for data exchange and an analyser model for process and laboratory systems. Full Story...
OPC Foundation announces Frankfurt workshop 01/09/2009 The OPC Foundation is offering 40 attendees training in C++ and .NET development when it holds a Unified Architecture Developers’ Workshop in Frankfurt on September 22-24. The course is designed for developers and architects who plan to develop an OPC UA Server or Client. Full Story...
OPC targets pharmaceutical industry 20/02/2009 The OPC Foundation has released the draft Analyzer Devices Integration (ADI) Specification, providing the pharmaceutical industry with a common method for data exchange for analyser data models for process and laboratory analysers. The specification was developed as a logical extension of the OPC UA specifications and serves as an information model for analyser devices. Full Story...
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