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The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. Production devices include sensors, instruments, PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, HMIs, historians, trending subsystems, alarm subsystems, and more as used in the process industry, manufacturing, and in acquiring and transporting oil, gas, and minerals. The Vision of the OPC Foundation is to provide the best technology, specifications, certification and processes to enable companies to build products and services that demonstrate multiplatform multi-vendor secure reliable interoperability.  OPC Foundation members benefit by being able to take advantage of the technology and marketing necessary to become the leaders in the industry supporting industrial standards for industrial automation and beyond.

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A look at how the OPC UA and MQTT industrial communications methods enable interoperability between automation devices and systems.
June 24, 2022
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U.S. Government issues warning about new cyberthreats that impact control systems and SCADA devices across industries.
May 13, 2022
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The FDT Group’s platform-independent development tools enable unobstructed communication from sensors to the cloud. Watch this Take Five video to find out more.
Aug. 20, 2021
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Tom Burke, OPC Foundation President, discusses information integration and device communications featuring embedded OPC UA.
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Gary Mitchell, Co-founder and Editor in Chief, recaps the inaugural OPC Technology Summit held in Orlando, Fla., October 17-18. Mintchell discusses OPC technology advances and...
Oct. 25, 2012
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Tom Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation delivers the latest information on device to controller interoperability.
June 22, 2012

Blogs

Today’s Digital Transformation Reality
Dana Inc. and Streamline Innovations show how digital transformations can start today in the discrete and process industries using Ignition to overcome legacy infrastructure’s...
Sept. 20, 2019
Industry 4.0 with a pharma focus
Knowing that IoT software and services in pharma are expected to reach $2.5 billion by 2020, this builder of pharmaceutical packaging machinery is rolling out a robust Industry...
June 10, 2019
The Future of Industrial Networking
During the Automation World Conference & Expo, a panel of technology experts discussed how advanced networking technologies will lead to open, standards-based communication from...
May 22, 2019
Is a Universal Industrial Network Coming Soon?
A new paper from ARC Advisory Group explores the potential of creating a universal industrial network through the combination of OPC UA and time-sensitive networking.
Feb. 25, 2019
2019: The Year of the Industrial Network Protocol
The OPC Foundation, CC-Link Partner Association and ODVA have all made announcements about major moves planned for 2019, indicating serious movement toward greater device and ...
Nov. 28, 2018
Siemens' TSN Strategy via Profinet and OPC UA
Siemens' real-time networking strategy will rely heavily on Time Sensitive Networking to deliver data from field devices to the cloud, connect machinery from multiple vendors ...
July 3, 2018
How to Use OPC UA for Secure Communications
A new white paper from the OPC Foundation provides details for end users, system integrators, device vendors and OEMs on how to secure industrial data exchanges with OPC UA.
Jan. 18, 2018
Clearing Up Some IIoT Communication Confusion
With so many open communication standards for automation networks now widely available, some users have begun to wonder whether they should use OPC UA, MQTT or AMQP. The answer...
Nov. 9, 2017
Behind the Industrial Technology Integration Scenes
How FDT Group and OPC Foundation are collaborating to help automation suppliers connect edge devices with manufacturing, enterprise and cloud-based applications.
Aug. 1, 2017
A Serialization Standard for the Plant
OPEN-SCS is solving how to seamlessly exchange serialization data between packaging lines by leveraging existing plant floor standards. The group promises that their work will...
March 16, 2017

News

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Because many automation hardware and software components have cybersecurity weaknesses, this document provides detailed guidance for operations technology owners and operators...
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A new interface standard for the acquisition of energy consumption data in industrial manufacturing is being developed by ODVA, OPC Foundation, PI, and VDMA based on OPC UA.
June 7, 2022
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The OPC Foundation is proud to welcome Dr. Holger Kenn (Microsoft), Mr. Claudius Link (SAP), Mr. Andreas Faath (VDMA), Mr. Aurelien Le Sant (Schneider-Electric) and Dr. Kazuhiro...
June 7, 2022
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The Avnu Alliance, CC-Link Partner Association, ODVA, OPC Foundation, and PROFIBUS & PROFINET International jointly announce that they are collaborating to develop a single conformance...
June 7, 2022
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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...
Feb. 24, 2022
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New server-level universal device information model unifies IT/OT data visualization for the enterprise.
Sept. 21, 2021
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A deep-dive into OPC UA technology, initiatives, end user experiences, and more.
June 7, 2021
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OPC Foundation and CESMII initiated new joint working group joined by major industry players to enable manufacturers to speed up pre-built shopfloor and digitalization applications...
Oct. 30, 2020
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The Eclipse Foundation creates a working group to support the continued development and adoption of Sparkplug, the specification that addresses MQTT interoperability issues and...
Feb. 6, 2020
OPC Robotics Specification Released
The OPC Robotics Companion Specification lays the foundation for the integration of industrial robotic systems into the Industrial Internet of Things.
Oct. 23, 2019

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The OPC Foundation says this addition is a significant step forward in ensuring the interoperability of industrial automation and IoT systems by allowing IT applications to access...
May 9, 2023
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Ethernet-APL to become more widely available, ownership of the Process Automation Device Information Model expands, and development of a single standard for an interoperable OPC...
Sept. 1, 2022
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This installment in our series on key industrial network technologies explains why fieldbus and 4-20mA communications remain relevant despite the proliferation of Ethernet-based...
Aug. 2, 2022
Fieldbus organizations like the EtherCAT Technology Group acknowledge the value of OPC UA and see it as a complementary standard in industrial control networking. Courtesy: EtherCAT Technology Group
This second installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains why OPC UA continues to be recognized as the global interoperability method of choice...
May 17, 2022
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The U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency issues new alert about attacks targeting ICS/SCADA devices.
April 14, 2022
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New specifications address OPC UA information models and networking services, while the OPC UA Cloud Library provides information model access for applications.
Dec. 16, 2021
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BMW explains how OPC UA has helped the company improve communication, data exchange, and interoperability among assets, systems, and locations.
June 24, 2021
This illustration highlights the focus of the OPC UA FX initiative around controller-to-controller and controller-to-device communications in the areas of determinism, motion, I/O, instruments, and safety. Source: OPC Foundation.
Support for 5G wireless, controller-to-device and device-to-device communications, time-sensitive networking, and Ethernet advanced physical layer are among the highlights of ...
June 24, 2021
Industrial IoT architectures typically comprise out of a production asset level, edge level and cloud level. Source: Open Manufacturing Platform
A new white paper from the Open Manufacturing Platform highlights production asset level connectivity issues, with a focus on OPC UA and MQTT.
Dec. 17, 2020
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As the TSN standard nears completion, excitement is growing over the prospect of bringing IT and OT closer together. Industrial protocol associations have been working hard with...
Aug. 14, 2020

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Highlighting its role in the development of new industrial process and discrete communications, the OPC Foundation has joined the advanced physical layer for industrial Ethernet...
July 28, 2020
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FieldComm Group explains the role of a new information model from NAMUR and an emerging two-wire Ethernet protocol for process automation applications.
Feb. 19, 2020
Profinet Safety, Security, and TSN Announcements
At Hannover Messe 2019, Profibus & Profinet International highlighted its ongoing work with the OPC Foundation around TSN, OPC UA’s use of ProfiSafe, and a new white paper designed...
April 11, 2019
Time Sensitive Networking Gathers Steam
From standards development collaboration between the Industrial Internet Consortium and Avnu Alliance to deployment of OPC UA, Time Sensitive Networking is quickly moving from...
Nov. 29, 2017
OPC Foundation Announces Fall Seminar Tour
A series of events across the U.S. and Canada this fall highlight the features and real world applications of the OPC UA industrial automation communication protocol.
Aug. 25, 2017
Inclusion of OPC UA in the Sercos system architecture.
The OPC Foundation’s latest partnership geared toward increased interoperability in industrial automation is aimed at mapping the Sercos device model and profiles to OPC UA.
July 25, 2017
National Instruments Opens Industrial IoT Lab
Located in a flexibly powered and networked space at National Instruments headquarters, the company’s Industrial Internet of Things lab is designed for project collaboration with...
Jan. 12, 2017
FDT Modernizes for IoT
Extension of the FDT architecture takes the technology further into mobility, cloud and fog applications as well as sensor-to-cloud and enterprise-wide connectivity.
Dec. 1, 2016
Ethernet installations are growing fast, but about a quarter of Automation World survey respondents say they have no plans to move away from serial devices anytime soon.
Nov. 22, 2016
Taking on the Interoperability Challenge
From new collaborative specifications to messaging middleware, industry groups and technology suppliers are scrambling to design a seamless way to integrate the Industrial Internet...
Nov. 22, 2016
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FDT® and OPC UA pair to expand enterprise connectivity
Oct. 31, 2016
A Security Framework for the Industrial Internet
The Industrial Internet Consortium has published the Industrial Internet Security Framework to provide a common framework addressing security issues in Industrial Internet of ...
Oct. 24, 2016