OPC Foundation: The Industrial Interoperability Standard™
The mission of the OPC Foundation is to manage a global organization in which users, vendors and consortia collaborate to create data transfer standards for multi-vendor, multi-platform, secure and reliable interoperability in industrial automation.
To support this mission, the OPC Foundation:
- Creates and maintains specifications
- Ensures compliance with OPC specifications via certification testing
- Collaborates with industry-leading standards organizations