For Immediate Release OPC Foundation Elects New Board Members Scottsdale, AZ – Dec. 14, 2014 – The OPC Foundation Board of Directors is at full strength with the December 1, 2014 election of new board members Matthias Damm and Stefan Hoppe and the re-election of board member Russ Agrusa, for the 2015-2016 term. “We’re delighted […]
The OPC Foundation Board of Directors is at full strength with the December 1st election of new board members Matthias Damm and Stefan Hoppe and the re-election of board member Russ Agrusa, for the 2015-2016 term. “We’re delighted to welcome Matthias and Stefan and to welcome back Russ to the OPC board. Each has been instrumental […]
The OPC Foundation concluded the 2014 European Interoperability Workshop (IOP) in November. There were 40 attendees representing 23 member companies with 59 products tested. This event showed the future of OPC UA with some vendors testing embedded UA Servers/Clients; some testing Cloud-based UA Clients/Servers; some testing Development toolkits; some testing Gateway devices (UA to Modbus/Fieldbus, […]
OPC Foundation Announces New Board Member For Immediate Release – Scottsdale, Arizona The OPC Foundation announces the appointment of Ziad Kaakani to the Board of Directors. Mr. Kaakani was unanimously elected by the OPC Foundation Board to replace David Eisner, who resigned his seat upon retiring from Honeywell. Mr. Kaakani leads the Honeywell Process Solutions […]
OPC-UA Client FUNCTION BLOCKS for IEC61131-3 Hanover, Germany 09.04.2014: In October 2008 the cooperation between PLCopen and OPC Foundation started with a kick-off to map the IEC 61131-3 Software Model to the OPC UA information model, which was released in March 2010 by both organizations. The basis was provided by the OPC UA Client – […]
The Industry Association AIM starts a Cooperation with the OPC Foundation aiming at the Standardization of Systems Integration of Auto-ID Systems. German enterprises regard this integration as a prerequisite for the successful implementation of the strategic initiative “Industrie 4.0”. Lampertheim, Germany, 09 April 2014 – The industry association AIM represents the global network of auto-ID […]
Data-transfer between building automation and ERP-systems becomes easier Dortmund/Frankfurt/Main., 4.4. 2014. – The BACnet Interest Group Europe and the OPC Foundation presented the new created mapping between BACnet and OPC-UA at the Light+Building. After a year of intense work, the working group leaders, Frank Schubert and Matthias Damm presented the Mapping document to the father […]
McLean, Va. … The MTConnect Institute and the OPC Foundation announce the availability of the MTConnect-OPC UA (Unified Architecture) Companion specification release candidate (RC). “The MTConnect-OPC UA companion specification has been developed to ensure a uniform information model that can be utilized via the MTConnect standard and the OPC UA standard,” said Paul Warndorf, Secretary […]
Both organizations will provide an interoperability standard for Industrie 4.0 – Germany’s project for the Factory of the Future Nuremberg, Germany November 27, 2013. The OPC Foundation, dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications, and the AutomationML association, targeting the lossless exchange of engineering information along the engineering tool chain, […]
