OPC Foundation
Since 1996, the OPC Foundation has facilitated the development and adoption of the OPC information exchange standards. As both advocate and custodian of these specifications, the Foundation’s mission is to help industry vendors, end-users, and software developers maintain interoperability in their manufacturing and automation assets. The OPC Foundation is dedicated providing the best specifications, technology, process and certification to achieve multivendor, multiplatform, secure, reliable interoperability for moving data and information from the embedded world to the enterprise cloud. The Foundation serves over 1010 members worldwide in the Industrial Automation, IT, IoT, IIoT, M2M, Industrie 4.0, Building Automation, machine tools, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and Smart Energy sectors.
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OPC Foundation and Avnu Collaborate to Advance TSN in Industrial Automation through Testing, Certification and Interoperability
OPC Foundation - Avnu Alliance and OPC Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement to advance testing, certification and practical integration of OPC UA FX over Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), with the shared goal of enabling testable and certified devices that deliver multi-vendor interoperability in real industrial automation deployments.
Open, Standards-Based, Digital Product Passport Adoption from Shop Floor to Cloud
OPC Foundation - 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 the full product lifecycle, from industrial devices and manufacturing systems to cloud and enterprise platforms.
OPC Foundation Advances OPC UA for the AI Era with Companion Specifications Optimized for Agentic AI
OPC Foundation - 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 will extend this work to convert all (over 430) OPC UA Companion Specifications into formats optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model context protocol (MCP) and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
OPC Foundation and CEN/CENELEC Strengthen Cooperation on Digital Product Passport Standardization
OPC Foundation - 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 standardization of Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions in Europe.
Unified Ethernet Standard Unlocks New Opportunities for Industrial Digitalization in Automation Industry
FieldComm Group - 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 & PROFINET International) are already in successful operation in process automation applications worldwide. Now, another significant milestone has been reached.
New Compliance Test Tool Release for OPC UA V1.05.06
OPC Foundation - The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the initial version of the OPC UA Compliance Test Tool (UACTT) supporting the OPC UA Specification Version 1.05.06. This release marks a significant step forward in providing robust and reliable testing capabilities for vendors, system integrators, and end users working with OPC UA-based products and solutions.
New Working Group to specify an I/O Device Profile for OPC UA Field eXchange
OPC Foundation - The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the formation of a new working group to develop an I/O Device Profile for OPC UA and the extensions for the field level, named OPC UA FX (Field eXchange). The group aims to create a standardized profile for I/O devices used in industrial automation applications, allowing for seamless interoperability between controllers, such as PLC and DCS systems, and remote I/O devices, including modular I/Os.
OPC UA connects the industry to the Metaverse
OPC Foundation - The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the completion and publication of its Metaverse work. After needs for a standardized Metaverse solution being raised by Dr. Holger Kenn, Microsoft, in October 2022 the Board of Directors of the OPC Foundation decided to establish a Working Group to ensure OPC UA is well suited for the Metaverse use-cases.
The OPC Foundation releases the OPC UA Field eXchange (UAFX) Specifications
OPC Foundation - The OPC Foundation (OPCF) announces that its Field Level Communications (FLC) Initiative has released the first set of OPC UA Field eXchange (UAFX) specifications, which lay the groundwork for using OPC UA at the field level. Four years in the making, these UAFX specifications have passed in-depth OPCF member reviews and extensive prototyping to ensure their implementations maintain cross-vendor interoperability.