Articles & News on OPC & OPC UA

Catena-X and OPC Foundation Enable Industrial Data Exchange for the Digital Product Passport

  • August 19, 2025
  • News

The partnership aligns OPC UA standardization and cross-industry data interoperability.

Optimizing Energy Savings with Innovative Standards

  • May 7, 2025
  • News

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

  • by John Weber
  • April 14, 2025
  • 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

  • March 26, 2025
  • News

OPC Foundation and International Data Spaces Association are collaborating to connect the largest ecosystem for industrial interoperability to international data spaces.

The OPC Foundation Elects Three New Members to Board of Directors, Names Shinji Oda as Chairman

  • March 10, 2025
  • News

The OPC Foundation Board of Directors has been expanded to include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Huawei.

Industry 5.0: People and Machines Interact in Real-time to Transform Manufacturing Processes

  • by Sumeet Puri
  • February 7, 2025
  • Feature

The arrival of Industry 5.0 has opened up the ability for manufacturers to "see" in real-time the detailed relationship of the end product to its parts.

Google Cloud and Major Manufacturers Join the OPC Foundation Cloud Initiative

  • November 14, 2024
  • News

A who’s who of cloud suppliers and world-famous manufacturers align interoperability requirements in IT and cloud environments based on OPC UA.

OPC Foundation Launches Certification Program for OPC UA FX Controllers

  • November 13, 2024
  • News

The OPC Foundation is proud to announce the addition of OPC UA FX (Field eXchange) capabilities to its certification program.

Pairing a Data Diode with Tunnel/Mirroring for Secure Data Access

  • by Xavier Mesrobian
  • October 21, 2024
  • Opinion

There has never been a time when making secure remote connections to industrial data has been more critical.

Modern Edge Devices Bring Harmony to Disjointed Protocols

  • by Dan White
  • October 3, 2024
  • Feature

If TCP/IP won the “protocol wars” in the ‘90s, why are you still fighting protocol battles on the plant floor today?