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In today’s complex economy, information is the key to business success and profitability. OPC technologies were created to allow information to be easily and securely exchanged between diverse platforms from multiple vendors and to allow seamless integration of those platforms without costly, time-consuming software development. This frees engineering resources to do the more important work of running your business. Today, there are more than 5,200 suppliers who have created more than 42,000 different OPC products used in more than 52 million applications. The estimate of the savings in engineering resources alone is in the billions of dollars.

OPC News

OPC Foundation Advances Open, Standards-Based, Digital Product Passport Adoption from Shop Floor to Cloud

Fraunhofer FFB demonstrates digital battery cell production in Germany with the EU Battery Passport based on OPC UA Scottsdale, AZ – April 20th, 2026 – The OPC Foundation today reaffirmed its commitment to enabling the next generation of Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions with open, interoperable, and standards-based technologies that connect product data seamlessly across […]

OPC Foundation Advances OPC UA for the AI Era with Companion Specifications Optimized for Agentic AI  

Initiative transforms over 430 industry information models into AI-ready assets for engineering copilots, semantic search, and intelligent automation Scottsdale, AZ – April 20th, 2026 – The OPC Foundation today announced the next step in its OPC UA for AI activities: building on the initial prototyping work published in the UA-for-AI-Prototype GitHub repository, the OPC Foundation […]

OPC Foundation and LoRa Alliance Launch Joint Activities to Map LoRaWAN to OPC UA

New collaboration will help bridge low-power wide-area networking and industrial interoperability through a standardized mapping approach  Scottsdale, AZ – April 20, 2026 – The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce a new joint working group effort with the LoRa Alliance to develop a mapping from LoRaWAN to OPC UA, bringing together two highly complementary technologies […]

Why Secure Industrial Communication Depends on Deployment as well as Protocols

Why Secure Industrial Communication Depends on Deployment as well as Protocols Joint Industry Perspective from the Industrial Security Harmonization Group (ISHG) Hannover, Germany – April 14th, 2026: The Industrial Security Harmonization Group (ISHG) has released a joint industry perspective highlighting a critical truth in industrial cybersecurity: secure communication is not determined by protocols alone, but […]

OPC Foundation and CEN/CENELEC Strengthen Cooperation on Digital Product Passport Standardization

Supporting Europe’s Digital Product Passport vision with open, interoperable standards for scalable and trusted data exchange  Scottsdale, AZ – March 02nd, 2026 – The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce a Liaison Agreement with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), marking an important step forward in the […]

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