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Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation Announce Liaison Agreement
The agreement will advance the use of digital twins in manufacturing across industries. -
OPC Foundation Showcases Industrial Digitalization Integrated Architecture at SPS 2022
The OPC Foundation continues to prove it is the strongest and broadest open multivendor standards ecosystem for building integrated digital manufacturing businesses. -
OPC Foundation Welcomes '.NET User Group' to Maintain the Open-source UA-.NET Standard Project
ABB, Microsoft and SAP have joined forces to extend and enhance the OPC Foundation’s open-source .NET offerings. -
The OPC Foundation Releases the OPC UA Field eXchange Specifications
The release of the UAFX specifications heralds the dawn of a new generation of secure, open standard based Field Level communications. -
Takebishi Selects ICONICS to Deliver OPC Servers in the Americas & EMEA
This partnership will bring focused customer value for the proven, high quality and extremely competitive OPC Server solution called DeviceXPlorer OPC Server. -
OPC Foundation and FieldComm Group Cooperate to Develop an Instrumentation Device Profile for OPC UA Field eXchange
The cooperation will harmonize OPC UA-based field instruments and accelerate development and adoption in automation. -
Support Expands for the Process Automation Device Information Model
The collaboration promises to simplify integration of OT and IT systems by optimizing process automation end users’ management of data from field devices. -
APL Project Successfully Completed: Ethernet-APL Is Here!
The result is a completely available 10Mbit technology for a new two-wire, Intrinsically Safe Physical Layer called Ethernet-APL. -
FieldComm, OPC UA Collaboration Benefits Users
A look at standards organizations and how standards development benefits users. This feature originally appeared in the June 2022 issue of InTech magazine. -
OPC Foundation Elects Board of Directors Members and Names Dr. Holger Kenn as Chairman
The growing OPC Foundation Board of Directors member diversity reflects the expanding role OPC UA plays in OT and IT. -
Case Study: L’Oréal Achieves Big Results Applying OPC UA
With the help of OPC UA, L’Oréal is implementing Industry 4.0 concepts, transforming from mass production to personalized production to meet customer preferences. -
OPC Days 2022: Manufacturing Information Integration from Field Devices to Enterprise and Cloud
The OPC Day International 2022, held as a virtual event from April 25-29, 2022, illustrated the broad and growing scope of OPC Foundation standards to achieve manufacturing information integration from field devices to enterprise and cloud. -
OPC UA Makes IIoT Implementations Possible
OPC UA is often the best choice for the IIoT implementations characteristic of the fourth industrial revolution. This feature was originally published in the February 2022 edition of InTech magazine. -
Five Key Considerations for Your Own OPC UA Security Architecture
Although the list of considerations to evaluate when planning the design for a secure OPC UA architecture is considerably longer than what is discussed here, these offer a starting point to drive a conversation within your organization to ensure a system that meets the unique requirements of your project. -
Leading IoT Vendors Commit to OPC UA Adoption
Major IoT vendors including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SIEMENS leverage secure, standardized information exchange in edge-to-cloud applications based on OPC UA. -
UniversalAutomation.org Launched to Achieve Multivendor Industrial Control Program Portability
This shared-source, not open-source, code is based on the nxtControl IEC 61499 runtime engine code donated by Schneider Electric. -
VDMA Robotics + Automation Published OPC UA for Tightening Systems
In an effort to advance interoperable communication in the Integrated Assembly Solutions industry, the VDMA Robotics + Automation association has published the first OPC UA specification for this application area. -
FDT Group and OPC Foundation Release Updated Companion Specification for FDT 3.0
New server-level universal device information model unifies IT/OT data visualization for the enterprise. -
The OPC UA .Net Standard Toolkit from Softing Adds Support for Machine Builders and PubSub MQTT
Version 2.90 of the OPC UA .NET Standard Toolkits adds the Pub/Sub MQTT protocol to the SDK, support for UMATI NodeSet files, NodesSet2 XML handling, and performance improvements for your next OPC UA development project. -
Building OPC UA IIoT Applications with MQTT for Bandwidth Constrained Applications
OPC UA and MQTT are open-source technologies representative of the industrial automation architectural shift toward greater flexibility and interoperability. The OPC UA IIoT Starter Kit combines them so users can create solutions for bandwidth-constrained applications.
