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HDA Explorer is a stand-alone tool for verifying historical data through HDA, testing HDA OPC Servers, and troubleshooting connectivity to HDA OPC Servers.

Operon Systems makes Red Hawk data collection and manufacturing productivity monitoring solutions.

Lenze standardized on Softing’s OPC Tunnel based on the software’s performance and immediate availability for use in a real-time environment under Windows CE .NET.

OPC Framework has successfully completed the OPC Foundation’s highest level of testing - Independent Certification.

This specification provides the Pharmaceutical industry with a common method for data exchange for process and laboratory analyzers.

Survey shows most Americans believe highly automated factories are important to economic growth. The majority support a stimulus package to modernize U.S. factories.

Gil Automations chose MatrikonOPC as its preferred supplier of OPC data connectivity solutions.

Kepware has been selected by ARC Informatique, the makers of PcVue and PlantVue HMI/SCADA systems, as its primary provider of connectivity to field devices.

Products from OPC-Classic to OPC-UA are available for license with OEM software products in the automation marketplace.

The INTERKAMA+ tradeshow at HANNOVER MESSE 2009 is gearing up to make a contribution of global significance in this area via its "Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes" display.

ILS is opening its development-and-testing labs to FAU researchers working on technologies such as programmable logic controllers and radio-frequency identification (RFID) equipment, among others.

ICONICS announced that its chief executive, Russ Agrusa, has been re-elected to the OPC Foundation Board of Directors.

Kepware will provide KEPServerEX to WIN-911 for its WIN-911 remote alarming solution.

Revenue for the first quarter, which ended November 30, 2008, was $19.58 million compared to $20.16 million in Q4-08.

Legal disputes have prevented exiderdome from being transferred from a barge to land for the second half of its U.S. tour.

PLCopen Technical Committee TC6-XML opened up the IEC 61131-3 development environments by specifying the XML schema.

OPC DataHub demo lets anyone using a PDA or cell phone interact with a live system to view data in real time, and to send commands for controlling the system.

Kepware and ConneXSoft will develop BACnet and Echelon communications drivers and Kepware will become a reseller of ConneXSoft tools.

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OPC Foundation and Kepware will manage the development of OPC-UA in a managed community “open source code” model.