OPC Foundation News & Articles
OPC Experts Interviews: Companion Specifications
- by Michael Clark
- October 15, 2020
- Feature
Learn from an interview with Karl Deiretsbacher of the OPC Foundation about Companion Specifications; the different types of Companion Specifications that exist; what Joint Working Groups are; and how the OPC Foundation guides the development and maintenance of Companion Specifications.
OPC Field Level Communications: A Controller-to-Controller Specification Within Reach
- by Peter Lutz
- October 5, 2020
- Feature
Essential for the convergence of IT and OT, FLC is also important for upgrading legacy systems.
OPC Experts Interviews: OPC UA Use Cases
- by Michael Clark
- September 17, 2020
- Feature
Learn from an interview with Christopher Anhalt of Softing about markets, adoption drivers, competing standards, the horizontal and vertical integration of IT and OT, companion specification use cases, green-field and brown-field… and many other things relevant to use cases that have made OPC UA so successful.
New International SPECTARIS Standard for Laboratory Equipment Communication
- August 11, 2020
- News
The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the new "Laboratory Agnostic Device Standard" (LADS).
OPC Experts Interviews: Getting Started with OPC UA
- by Michael Clark
- July 29, 2020
- Feature
Learn from an interview with Jouni Aro of Prosys OPC how developers and end users alike can get started using OPC UA. Jouni shares information about off-the-shelf products, software development toolkits, open source options, training and support, as well as product certification.
OPC Foundation Empowers Sensor-to-Cloud Digitalization
- by Bill Lydon
- July 28, 2020
- Feature
OPC Days 2020, a virtual event held June 22- 25, provided the latest information about OPC UA (Open Platform Communications United Architecture), the protocol-agnostic framework for the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 initiatives.
OPC Foundation announces addition of Google Cloud to member community
- June 24, 2020
- News
OPC UA is an industrial, protocol-agnostic framework for the Industrial Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 that contains mechanisms for secure, reliable, manufacturer and platform-independent information exchange, as well as options for semantic information modeling and self-description of devices.
OPC Experts Interview:The Technology Behind OPC UA
- by Michael Clark
- June 12, 2020
- Feature
Learn from an interview with Darek Kominek of Matrikon about the concepts of built-in security, the IT-OT gap, protecting against hacker/malware attacks, and many other features that have made OPC UA the secure data-exchange standard it is today. his is the third in the series of OPC Experts Interviews.
OPC Experts Interview:The Technology Behind OPC UA
- by Michael Clark
- May 28, 2020
- Feature
Learn how the science of the open platform communication standard, OPC UA, is applied across the industrial automation sector from an interview with Uwe Steinkrauss, CEO of Unified Automation. This is the second in the series of OPC Experts Interviews.
OPC Experts Interview: What is OPC?
- by Michael Clark
- May 19, 2020
- Feature
The OPC Experts Interview is a series taking a deep dive into open platform communications, OPC/OPC UA and related technology. This interview is with Stefan Hoppe, President and Executive Director of the OPC Foundation.