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  • Outlook on OPC Technology

    By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing Industrial Automation The eighth and last part of this series provides a summary and gives an outlook on the future of OPC technology.
    18 March, 2013 | 3 minutes

  • Oil & Gas Innovations Conference 2013

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Siemens hosted a thought leadership event on February 22, 2013 in Houston, TX. More than 300 oil and gas industry executives, technology leaders, and industry experts attended featured presentations, a trade fair and a networking event at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
    16 March, 2013 | 4 minutes

  • Kepware announces Customized Training Program

    Training program helps customers set-up and operate OPC-based communication systems for automation applications.
    23 January, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • MatrikonOPC Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Certification

    MatrikonOPC has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification by the Quality Management Institute (QMI) of Toronto, Ontario.
    16 January, 2013 | 1 minute

  • MatrikonOPC announces 2013 OPC training schedule

    Schedule includes a new workshop specifically focused on OPC Unified Architecture (UA) to provide attendees the skills and tools to maximize the benefits of using OPC UA.
    12 December, 2012 | 1 minutes

  • BIG-EU and OPC Foundation to Cooperate

    The organizations will work on the interface between BACnet (ANSI ASHRAE 135 / ISO 16484-5) and OPC-UA (IEC 62541).
    30 November, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • OPC UA Toolkits

    By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing An OPC toolkit is a collection of libraries, classes and interfaces that simplify the development of OPC applications for programmers by providing standard functions for reading and writing OPC items, browsing and managing the OPC address space, and much more.
    11 November, 2012 | 4 minutes

  • OPC publishes papers from Summit

    Presentations from the inaugural OPC Technology Summit have been made available for download at its web site.
    30 October, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • OPC UA enables Industrial Information Revolution

    Automation.com, October 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor OPC UA technology provides an efficient and secure infrastructure for communications and has the potential to be the standard of choice to complete the vision of IP to the edge, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things."
    22 October, 2012 | 3 minutes

  • OPC Foundation certifies COPA-DATA's zenon OPC UA Server

    The granting of the official certificate confirms COPA-DATA's zenon OPC UA server meets all of the quality criteria defined by the OPC Foundation.
    22 October, 2012 | 1 minute

  • OPC UA Compliance Test

    By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing OPC specifications are created with the aim of permitting interoperability between products from different manufacturers. To ensure that a product actually complies with the specification it must undergo a series of compliance tests. Part 6 in a series of eight articles.
    03 October, 2012 | 4 minutes

  • Kepware organizes water pumps in Orlando

    Upon installation of new controls, the system caused four separate pump stations to compete for water pumping rights at the same time. KEPServerEX solved the problem.
    01 October, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • Kepware controls water supply for vineyards

    Kepware links PCs and PLCs to help manage the water supply for more than 2,700 acres in Walla Walla Valley, OR.
    01 October, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • M2M Remote Monitoring, Process Performance and Reliable Operations

    Automation.com, September 2012 By Marlee Rosen Implementing secure remote maintenance monitoring and real-time diagnostics reporting can contribute to improved device performance and the reduction of maintenance cost.
    19 September, 2012 | 4 minutes

  • OPC UA Companion Standards

    By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing An overview of collaborations between different organizations—including ADI, FDI, FDT, ISA-95, MES, MIMOSA, ODVA and PLCopen—and the OPC Foundation, and the resulting OPC UA Companion Standards. Part 5 in a series of eight articles.
    10 September, 2012 | 5 minutes

  • Asian OPC InterOp Report: 22 Products Pass Interoperability Tests

    Fourteen vendors successfully tested 22 OPC products at the three-day Asian Interoperability (IOP) Workshop, an event sponsored by the OPC Foundation and hosted by the OPC Japan Council this past June in Tokyo, Japan.
    19 August, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • Ten Reasons for OPC UA

    By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing The third part of this series of articles outlines ten key reasons that have led to the development of an entirely new technology generation, the OPC Unified Architecture.
    08 August, 2012 | 5 minutes

  • MatrikonOPC signs distributor in Turkey

    EST Enerji, a control system integrator in Turkey, is now a MatrikonOPC Authorized Distributor.
    19 July, 2012 | 1 minute

  • Softing to provide PROFIdtm to Weidmueller

    Weidmueller will include PROFIdtm (communications or commDTM) with its WI-Manager.
    26 June, 2012 | 1 minute

  • MatrikonOPC opens office in Central America

    MatrikonOPC announces the opening of its Costa Rica office.
    09 June, 2012 | 1 minute
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