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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

Available: Presentations and Recording from OPC Foundation General Assembly Meeting 2025

Dec 4th, 2025 — The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce that the presentations and recordings from the OPC Foundation General Assembly Meeting (GAM) 2025 are now available for download. The downloadable PDF includes all presentation materials and the cover page provide a direct link to the session recording. During this year’s GAM, we shared the […]

Unified Ethernet Standard Unlocks New Opportunities for Industrial Digitalization in Automation Industry

Unified Ethernet Standard Unlocks New Opportunities for Industrial Digitalization in Automation Industry Joint Advancement of Ethernet-APL extends Interoperability to non-Hazardous Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) applications Nürnberg, Germany – November 26, 2025: The first industrial applications of the jointly developed Ethernet-APL technology by the Standard Development Organizations (SDO) FieldComm Group, ODVA, OPC Foundation, and PI (PROFIBUS […]

New Compliance Test Tool Release for OPC UA V1.05.06

OPC Foundation announced the release of the OPC UA Compliance Test Tool (UACTT) with extended testing capabilities for OPC UA FX and Companion Specifications   Scottsdale, AZ – November 20th, 2025 – The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the initial version of the OPC UA Compliance Test Tool (UACTT) supporting […]

Unified locating as a key to “Physical AI”

Unified locating as a key to “Physical AI” AIM-D, omlox, and the OPC Foundation create the foundation for a spatially networked industrial systems with a new OPC UA specification Scottsdale, AZ – November 3rd, 2025 – Industrial automation is facing a paradigm shift: machines, robots, and mobile systems are learning to “understand” space. With the […]

Catena-X and OPC Foundation Join Forces to Enable Seamless Industrial Data Exchange for the Digital Product Passport

The Partnership aligns OPC UA Standardization and Cross-Industry Data Interoperability to Comply with Regional Regulations like the EU Digital Product Passport Scottsdale (AZ), USA / Berlin, Germany, August 19th, 2025 – The Catena-X Automotive Network e. V. and the OPC Foundation have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate standardized, cross-company data sharing across the manufacturing […]

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