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OPC Solicits bids for new OPC UA Compliance Test Tool:  The OPC Foundation is soliciting bids for the development of a new OPC UA Compliance Test Tool. The following document provides a detailed description of the test tool requirements. All bids are due by June 3rd, 2008. [Full Story]

Independent Certification Test Lab Passes OPC Audit:  Independent Certification Test Lab Passes Audit The OPC Compliance Committee recently completed an audit of the new OPC Foundation Independent Certification Test Lab in Erlangen Germany run by ascolab. The audit review all processes and procedures used by the Independent Certification Test Lab, with an eye on improving the process or procedures where ever possible. The key goals of the audit were to ensure a very consistent and reproducible process for all testing and ensuring that the testing process was as complete and efficient as possible. The audit team was composed of a team with extensive experience in testing, auditing and OPC. [Full Story]

OPC Foundation Announces OPC Unified Architecture Developers' Workshop in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 16-18, 2008:  This OPC Event is sold out! If you would like to be placed on a waiting list for this event or for notification for the next event, please send an email to office@opcfoundation.org.

OPC Foundation Announces Release of OPConnect Issue 16:  The OPC Foundation and Automation World released OPConnect Issue 16. The newsletter can be found here.

OPC Seminar Seattle:  The OPC Seminar Seattle will be held at the Hilton Seattle Airport located at 17620 International Boulevard, Seattle, Washington, 98188, phone 206-244-4800. Registration and continental breakfast will start at 8:00 a.m. and the presentations will start at 8:30 a.m. Lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m. and the seminar will conclude about 4:30 p.m. At the completion of the seminar, refreshments will be served until 6:00 p.m. The vendor sponsors of this seminar include Canary Labs, Cyberlogic, GE Fanuc, ICONICS, Indusoft, ILS Technology, Kepware, Matrikon, Open Automation Software, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Softing, Software Toolbox and Wonderware. Hotel information and directions are available here.

OPC UA DevCon Video DVDs:  ALLMENDINGER has recorded the recent OPC Unified Architecture DevCons and is providing Video-DVDs covering all the sessions, giving you almost 12 hours on 4 DVDs of compact information presented by the designers of the UA specification themselves. Selected sessions are also available online. Order now...

Members invited to join the Analytical Device Integration Working Group:  The Analytical Device Integration (ADI) Working Group will begin with a kickoff Web meeting on Thursday, Februrary 21 at 10:00 AM EST. All members are invited to attend the kickoff and join the ADI Working Group. For meeting details, see the ADI SharePoint Site. For SharePoint log in instructions, see the SharePoint FAQ. Review the ADI Press Release.

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Latest Changes to the Website

2008-05-10	Core Components and .NET API Update
	Updates to the Core Components, the .NET API and the associated sample code are now available. This release includes the 64-bit versions of the proxy/stubs and fixes issues that prevented .NET API applications from running on x64 systems. All redistributable binaries and installers are now signed by the OPC Foundation.
2008-04-09	SDK Update with COM DA Proxy Support
	The COM-DA Proxy has been added to the distribution. A seperate MSI containing the source for the sample applications is also available.
2008-03-28	Updated OPC UA Release Candidate Specifications
	Updated Release Candidate Specifications for OPC UA Parts 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 are available for Members to download.
2007-10-29	New Version of the UA SDK Available
	This version includes the Local Discovery Server and UA TCP implementations in C# and C/C++
2007-08-13	New Version of the UA SDK Available
	This version includes the headers required to build ANSI C projects.

More website changes can be found here.

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