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What Does a Chiller Skid Have to Do With a $10 Billion Data Center?
Cooling OEMs answer that question with a PLC, not an IT department. If you are a controls engineer or an OEM product architect evaluating your platform for data center work, here are the questions you should ask. -
Open, Proprietary or Managed Ecosystems Require Critical Business Management Decisions
Industrial control and automation systems investments require critical business management decisions for long term competitiveness, growth and profits over time. -
PLCopen Process Industry Work Group Strives to Harmonize the PLCopen Process Function Block with MTP and OPC UA/OPC FX
During the PLCopen Process Control Work Group kickoff meeting, members came to a consensus regarding a goal: harmonization between the PLCopen Process function block with MTP and OPC UA/OPC FX. -
OPC Foundation Advances OPC UA for the AI Era with Companion Specifications Optimized for Agentic AI
The initiative transforms more than 430 industry information models into AI-ready assets for engineering copilots, semantic search and intelligent automation. -
OPC Foundation and LoRa Alliance Launch Joint Activities to Map LoRaWAN to OPC UA
The new collaboration will help bridge low-power wide-area networking and industrial interoperability through a standardized mapping approach. -
OPC Foundation Advances Open, Standards-Based, Digital Product Passport Adoption from Shop Floor to Cloud
The OPC Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to enabling the next generation of Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions with open, interoperable and standards-based technologies. -
Yokogawa Obtains Certification to O-PAS Standard’s OPC UA Profile, an Industry First
Yokogawa's OpreX Open Automation SI Kit for Open Process Automation systems has been certified for conformance with the OPC Unified Architecture profile of the Open Process Automation Standard. -
Predictive Maintenance: Using Displacement Sensors for Real-Time Condition Monitoring
Learn how laser, eddy and other displacement sensors work and how they plug into IIoT PdM systems. They’re game changers on the shop floor. -
The One Protocol Every Data Center Will Need in 2026
Redfish-inside PLCs — driven by Unitronics — are reshaping cooling, control and DCIM integration. -
Yokogawa Integrated Control and Safety System Receives ISASecure Certification
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that its integrated control and safety system has received ISASecure System Security Assurance (SSA) Level 1 certification. -
OPC Foundation and CEN/CENELEC Strengthen Cooperation on Digital Product Passport Standardization
Through this liaison, the OPC Foundation will actively contribute to the work of CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 — Digital Product Passport — Framework and System. -
Securely Feed Your OT Data to AI
To create a secure, reliable data from the shop floor to AI, isolate your networks using a DMZ and tunnel/mirroring your data through it to connect to in-house or cloud-based AI systems. -
Process Industry Working Group Accelerates Process Control and Automation Convergence
The PLCopen Process Industry Working Group will explore the incorporation of the function blocks PLCopen has developed for the O-PAS standard into a new PLCopen standard. -
OPC UA Safety Test Tool for OPC UA Client/Server Certified
This milestone marks a key achievement in ensuring reliable and standardized safety communication in industrial automation environments. -
Securing Industrial Applications by Protecting Modbus Communication
Modernizing industrial communication therefore isn’t just about upgrading equipment—it’s about adding security around the systems you already have. -
AIM-D, omlox and the OPC Foundation Create Foundation for Spatially Networked Industrial Systems With New OPC UA Specification
Industrial automation is facing a paradigm shift: machines, robots and mobile systems are learning to “understand” space. -
Catena-X and OPC Foundation Enable Industrial Data Exchange for the Digital Product Passport
The partnership aligns OPC UA standardization and cross-industry data interoperability. -
Optimizing Energy Savings with Innovative Standards
A consortium of organizations published a groundbreaking specification for interoperable and efficient energy management in industrial and process automation. -
Using OPC for Secure Alarm Integration: A Case Study
Create unified data sets for alarm and event data regardless of system age or location. -
OPC UA Connects Assets to International Data Spaces
OPC Foundation and International Data Spaces Association are collaborating to connect the largest ecosystem for industrial interoperability to international data spaces.
