As a standard for data interoperability, the OPC Foundation facilitates the adoption of OPC technology through collaboration with other international standards organizations. These collaborative efforts provide our members with new opportunities for market expansion and technology integration. See the FAQ site for details on how to participate.
See list of joined working groups below
| Logo | Vertical market | Teaser |
|---|---|---|
 | Automation | More… PLCopen, as an organization active in Industrial Control, is creating a higher efficiency in your application software development and lowering your life-cycle costs. |
 | Automation AutoID Supply Chain | More… RFID, but also other AutoID processes, are key technologies for the implementation of the philosophy of industry 4.0. The more important it becomes to integrate these technologies as simple as possible into total solutions. Therefore AIM-D e.V. (Association for Automatic Data Capture, Identification and Mobility), responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, defined standards on the basis of an OPC UA. |
  | Automation Plastics and rubber machinery | More… The VDMA EUROMAP group is defining semantic for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers. |
| Automation Machine Vision | More… The VDMA Machine Vision group is defining the semantic for Machine Vision devices with OPC UA |
| Automation Robotics | More… The VDMA Robotic group is defining the robotics information model with OPC UA |
 | Automation | More… The TMC (Tobacco Machine Communication) working group defined an OPC UA companion specification to harmonizing data exchange and interoperability requirements for the common benefit of both cigarette manufacturers and OEMs. |
 | Open-SCS Pharmaceutical | More… OPEN-SCS (Open Serialization Communication Standard) initiative directly addresses the Healthcare Industry’s Product Serialization Regulation Wave of the next decade. The OPEN-SCS Working Group is partnered with the OPC Foundation to develop an open source standard in the Packaging Serialization Global Name Registry and an associated set of subscription-based work products. |
 | Automation CNC | More… An OPC UA information model has been developed within the cooperation of the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW) and the OPC Foundation, in order to interface and exchange data with CNC systems. |
 | Automation | More… The MTConnect standard offers a semantic vocabulary for manufacturing equipment to provide structured, contextualized data with no proprietary format. |
 | Automation | More… OMAC -the Organization for Machine Automation and Control- was formed to meet this purpose and help manufacturers work together to find new and innovative ways to be successful their production operations. Joint forces between PLCopen, OPCF and the OMAC Packaging Workgroup facilitates a standardized and “off the shelf” PackTag data exchange via OPC UA. |
 | Automation Process Industry | More… FDI (Field Device Integration): FDI technology manages information from intelligent field devices during their entire lifecycle – from configuration, commissioning and diagnostics to calibration, making one-off solutions for different devices obsolete. |
 | Automation Process Industry | More… FDT is the open standard for industrial automation integration of networks and devices, harnessing IIoT and Industrie 4.0 for enterprise-wide connectivity. |
 | Automation Engineering | More… AutomationML (Automation Markup Language) is a neutral data format for the storage and exchange of plant engineering information, which is provided as open standards. Goal of AutomationML is to interconnect the heterogeneous tool landscape of modern engineering tools in their different disciplines, e.g. mechanical plant engineering, electrical design, HMI development, PLC, robot control. |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More… EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More… Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG) |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More… PROFIBUS – PROFINET International (PI) |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More… Sercos International (SI) |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More… IO-Link |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More comming soon CiA (CAN in Automation) |
 | Automation Fieldbus | More… CLPA |
 | Building Automation | More… BACnet International encourages the successful use of the BACnet standard in building automation and control networks. The joined working group of BACnet Interest Group in Europe together with OPC Foundation mapped building automation objects into the OPC UA information model. The efforts facilitates the integration between industrial automation and building automation devices and applications. |
| IEC61850 | Electrical substation | More… IEC 61850 is a standard for vendor-agnostic engineering of the configuration of Intelligent Electronic Devices for electrical substation automation systems to be able to communicate with each other.The abstract data models defined in IEC 61850 can be mapped to a number of protocols – like OPC UA |
 | Oil and Gas | More comming soon The SLC (Standards Leadership Council) was formed in 2012 by nine standards organizations serving the oil and gas industry to avoid duplication in development projects through collaboration. Its goals are to assist member organizations in determining business value metrics for standards adoption and maintaining financial sustainability. The Council includes Energistics, MIMOSA, Open Geospatial Consortium, OPC Foundation, PIDX International, Pipeline Open Data Standard, POSC Caesar Association, Professional Petroleum Data Management Association and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. |
| Oil and Gas | More comming soon DSATS (Drilling System Automation Technical Section), of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), recommends guidelines to allow open and secure communication between rig control systems, applicable surface and down-hole measurements and authorized third parties. Participating OPC suppliers and end-users are developing a comprehensive roadmap for Drilling Systems Automation that will incorporate best practices, lessons learned, standards and solutions. This roadmap or guideline will identify the objects and corresponding attribute/metadata that span all automation components within a drilling system. OPC UA is the communication protocol for connecting these devices and applications. | |
 | Oil and Gas Drilling and Producing | More… Energistics is a global consortium that facilitates the development, management and adoption of data exchange standards for the upstream oil and gas industry. |
 | Oil and Gas | More… MDIS is an international industry network group whose primary mission is to optimize the Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) interface of topside systems in oil and gas production. |
 | Standardization | More details comming soon W3C collaborates together with OPC Foundation to standardize semantic information models. |
 | Security | More… M2M Alliance collaborates together with OPC Foundation to guarantee an end-to-end security environment. The OPC Foundation brings in OPC UA stack: Security for industrial end-to-end solutions on protocol & application level – the stack and spec have been reviewed by German BSI. The M2M Alliance delivers experience on M2M applications (SIM-based), Smartcard projects and Healthcard projects with real world PKI-solutions including the integration of backend systems. |
 | Standardization | More… INDUSTRIAL DATA SPACE stands for secure data exchange between companies in which the data provider is always the owner of that data and still keeps control over the use of their data. |
 | Standardization | More… ISA 95 is the international standard for the integration of enterprise and control systems. ISA-95 consists of models and terminology that can be used to determine which information has to be exchanged between systems for sales, finance and logistics and systems for production, maintenance and Quality. |
 | Standardization | More… The OpenFog.Consortium is a public-private ecosystem formed to accelerate the adoption of fog computing in order to solve the bandwidth, latency and communications challenges associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, the Tactile Internet and other advanced concepts in the digitized world. |
Contact the OPC Foundation to learn more about these collaborations and the benefits of membership.
