What is the OPC Foundation?

The OPC Foundation is the world’s leading community for interoperability solutions developing and maintaining OPC specifications that deliver secure reliable interoperability.

The mission of the OPC Foundation is to:

  • Provide an international infrastructure to facilitate users, vendors and consortia to cooperate together to develop standards for multivendor, multiplatform, secure and reliable interoperability in industrial automation
  • Develop, maintain and bring to market the specifications for the OPC standards
  • Certify member products

The OPC Foundation is dedicated to providing the best specifications, technology, and product certification.

Supplier members are provided a complete infrastructure to rapidly develop quality OPC certified products.

End-user members gain access to myriad of technical information and innovation to be able to successfully use the OPC technology and OPC products from the OPC Foundation community to easily be able to assemble complex complete automation system/solutions.