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The OPC Foundation Takes Ownership of the MDIS Sub-Sea Standard

12/08/2021

As an OPC Foundation specification, MDIS is now freely available for market adoption and the MDIS working group is open to all interested OPC Foundation members. Scottsdale, AZ – December 08th, 2021 – The OPC Foundation (OPCF) is proud to announce that it consolidated and took over the MCS-DCS Interface Standardisation (MDIS) specification ownership.  Effective […]

General Assembly Meeting 2021 & Public Press Conference

11/25/2021

The OPC Foundation General Assembly Meeting 2021 will announce the results of the Board of Directors’ election, reports on budget, technical and marketing overview and provide first technical and marketing insights for 2022. Wed Dec 8th, 2021 – at 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST (4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CET) Please register here Agenda: OPC […]

OPC UA is recognized as “the most important interoperability technology in today’s industrial landscape” by the ARC Advisory Group

06/17/2021

A new ARC report examines the critical role OPC UA serves globally as the core data interoperability standard in process and discrete manufacturing industries and beyond Scottsdale, AZ – June 15, 2021 – The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce that the ARC Advisory Group published a report entitled “OPC UA Momentum Continues to Build.” […]

The OPC Foundation launches its OPC UAcademics program to supplement OPC UA training in post-secondary institutes

06/08/2021

New OPC UA training content donated by the OPC Foundation offers academic institutions ready-made course material for use in their curriculums Scottsdale, AZ – June 8th, 2021 – The OPC Foundation announces the launch of its academic outreach program called OPC UAcademics. The OPC UAcademics program provides post-secondary institutes with official, up-to-date OPC UA course […]

OPC Foundation and 5G-ACIA sign Memorandum of Understanding to foster cooperation and synergies on OPC UA integration with 5G

04/12/2021

Identify and leverage the synergies of OPC UA with 5G Serving Industrie 4.0 market with a reliable and flexible communication technology Giving system vendors new business opportunities for mobile industrial applications Scottsdale, AZ  April 12th, 2021 – OPC Foundation and 5G-ACIA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperatively engage in identifying synergies associated with […]

StandICT.eu 2023& OPC Foundation join forcesto support the interoperability of Standards in the industrial automation space and other industries

04/07/2021

Scottsdale / Brussels, April 7th, 2021 2021 – StandICT.eu 2023, the ICT Standardization Observatory and Support Facility in Europe, and OPC Foundation, come together with an MoU with the goal of pointing out the key-role of interoperable Standards in multiple industries and bringing fresh insights to the European ICT Standards community. StandICT.eu 2023’s mission is […]

The OPC Foundation welcomes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a new member

02/08/2021

Industrial sector customers on AWS use OPC UA-enabled tools and a portfolio of services that extend cloud functionality into industrial operations Scottsdale, AZ – Feb 08th, 2021 – Today, the OPC Foundation is proud to welcome Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN) as the latest OPC Foundation member. In the […]

The OPC Foundation welcomes Inovance (China) as its 800th member

12/18/2020

Strong OPC UA market adoption continues to drive record OPC Foundation membership growth. Scottsdale, AZ – Dec 18, 2020 – The OPC Foundation is proud to welcome Inovance as the 800th OPC Foundation member. As a leading global provider of industrial automation solutions, Inovance uses agile production techniques and deep experience across all industry sectors […]

OPC Foundation’s Field Level Communications Initiative reaches significant milestone

11/24/2020

Initial Release Candidate completed and Technical Paper published  Scottsdale, AZ – November 24th, 2020 – OPC Foundation announces today that its Field Level Communications Initiative has accomplished a significant milestone in the ongoing project by completing their initial release candidate with the focus on the Controller-to-Controller (C2C) use case. In addition, a technical paper has been […]