Fraunhofer FFB demonstrates digital battery cell production in Germany with the EU Battery Passport based on OPC UA Scottsdale, AZ – April 20th, 2026 – The OPC Foundation today reaffirmed its commitment to enabling the next generation of Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions with open, interoperable, and standards-based technologies that connect product data seamlessly across […]
Initiative transforms over 430 industry information models into AI-ready assets for engineering copilots, semantic search, and intelligent automation Scottsdale, AZ – April 20th, 2026 – The OPC Foundation today announced the next step in its OPC UA for AI activities: building on the initial prototyping work published in the UA-for-AI-Prototype GitHub repository, the OPC Foundation […]
New collaboration will help bridge low-power wide-area networking and industrial interoperability through a standardized mapping approach Scottsdale, AZ – April 20, 2026 – The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce a new joint working group effort with the LoRa Alliance to develop a mapping from LoRaWAN to OPC UA, bringing together two highly complementary technologies […]
Why Secure Industrial Communication Depends on Deployment as well as Protocols Joint Industry Perspective from the Industrial Security Harmonization Group (ISHG) Hannover, Germany – April 14th, 2026: The Industrial Security Harmonization Group (ISHG) has released a joint industry perspective highlighting a critical truth in industrial cybersecurity: secure communication is not determined by protocols alone, but […]
Supporting Europe’s Digital Product Passport vision with open, interoperable standards for scalable and trusted data exchange Scottsdale, AZ – March 02nd, 2026 – The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce a Liaison Agreement with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), marking an important step forward in the […]
OPC UA Safety Test Tool for OPC UA Client/Server certified OPC UA Safety Compliance Test Tool (UASCTT) Verifies Compliance of OPC UA Safety (Part 10000-015) Scottsdale, AZ – December 10th, 2025 – The OPC Foundation is proud to announce that the OPC UA Safety Compliance Test Tool (UASCTT) has been officially certified by TÜV SÜD […]
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 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 […]
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” 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 […]
