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Michael Clark

Michael Clark as the Director of OPC Foundation North America and a spokesperson for the Foundation throughout the region. With over 30 years of experience, Clark is internationally recognized in the process automation sector for his expertise in Industrial Control System (ICS) fieldbus protocols and for his contributions to the Open Process Automation Standard (OPAS) since its inception.

 

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    OPC Experts Interviews: Companion Specifications

    Learn from an interview with Karl Deiretsbacher of the OPC Foundation about Companion Specifications; the different types of Companion Specifications that exist; what Joint Working Groups are; and how the OPC Foundation guides the development and maintenance of Companion Specifications.
    By: OPC Foundation, Michael Clark
    15 October, 2020 | 6 minutes
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    OPC Experts Interviews: OPC UA Use Cases

    Learn from an interview with Christopher Anhalt of Softing about markets, adoption drivers, competing standards, the horizontal and vertical integration of IT and OT, companion specification use cases, green-field and brown-field… and many other things relevant to use cases that have made OPC UA so successful.
    By: OPC Foundation, Michael Clark
    17 September, 2020 | 9 minutes
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    OPC Experts Interviews: Getting Started with OPC UA

    Learn from an interview with Jouni Aro of Prosys OPC how developers and end users alike can get started using OPC UA. Jouni shares information about off-the-shelf products, software development toolkits, open source options, training and support, as well as product certification.
    By: OPC Foundation, Michael Clark
    29 July, 2020 | 8 minutes
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    OPC Experts Interviews: OPC UA and Security

    Learn from an interview with Darek Kominek of Matrikon about the concepts of built-in security, the IT-OT gap, protecting against hacker/malware attacks, and many other features that have made OPC UA the secure data-exchange standard it is today. his is the third in the series of OPC Experts Interviews.
    By: OPC Foundation, Michael Clark
    12 June, 2020 | 10 minutes
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    OPC Experts Interviews: The Technology Behind OPC UA

    Learn how the science of the open platform communication standard, OPC UA, is applied across the industrial automation sector from an interview with Uwe Steinkrauss, CEO of Unified Automation. This is the second in the series of OPC Experts Interviews.
    By: OPC Foundation, Michael Clark
    28 May, 2020 | 6 minutes
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    OPC Experts Interviews: What is OPC?

    The OPC Experts Interview is a series taking a deep dive into open platform communications, OPC/OPC UA and related technology. This interview is with Stefan Hoppe, President and Executive Director of the OPC Foundation.
    By: OPC Foundation, Michael Clark
    19 May, 2020 | 11 minutes
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