What resources are available to learn about the OPC technology?

The OPC technology has literally thousands of vendors that have brought quality OPC products to market. End-users have successfully been able to use OPC to achieve multi-vendor interoperability throughout industrial automation.

The OPC Foundation provides a comprehensive list of resources for both suppliers and end-users. The OPC Foundation resources for suppliers include the OPC specifications, reference implementations of the technology, quality developer documentation, and a complete certification program. The OPC Foundation also provides a repository of information about member companies inclusive of products and services to rapidly develop OPC products. Additional information including articles, white papers, books and webinars is also catalogued as resources on the OPC Foundation website.

The OPC Foundation resources for end-users includes the OPC specifications, the OPC Foundation product catalog (identifies all supplier member products and services), and a complete one-stop reference of information about OPC (which includes application success stories).