Articles & News on OPC & OPC UA

OPC Foundation Extends OPC UA with Standardized REST-Interface

  • April 18, 2023
  • News

OPC UA via HTTP REST allows IT-Applications access to OPC UA applications and their data described in over 90+ standardized domain-specific information models.

Bitkom and the OPC Foundation Establish and Implement Interoperable Interfaces for Industry 4.0

  • April 17, 2023
  • News

The digital association Bitkom e.V. and the OPC Foundation announced a collaboration at Hannover Messe 2023.

IT Standards Accelerate Industrial Control and Automation Plug-and-Play Data Mapping

  • by Bill Lydon
  • February 23, 2023
  • Feature

Microsoft’s Erich Barnstedt, in collaboration with Siemens, is taking the lead to simplify and automate the mapping of industrial field device data tags using discoverable data models.

The OPC Foundation Welcomes Procter & Gamble as 900th Member

  • February 8, 2023
  • News

Procter & Gamble is a global leader in the Smart Manufacturing domain through its efforts to drive innovation by using digital technologies, including OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA), in a concept they call “constructive disruption.”

Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation Announce Liaison Agreement

  • February 7, 2023
  • News

The agreement will advance the use of digital twins in manufacturing across industries.

OPC Foundation Showcases Industrial Digitalization Integrated Architecture at SPS 2022

  • by Bill Lydon
  • December 9, 2022
  • Feature

The OPC Foundation continues to prove it is the strongest and broadest open multivendor standards ecosystem for building integrated digital manufacturing businesses. 

OPC Foundation Welcomes '.NET User Group' to Maintain the Open-source UA-.NET Standard Project

  • December 5, 2022
  • News

ABB, Microsoft and SAP have joined forces to extend and enhance the OPC Foundation’s open-source .NET offerings.

The OPC Foundation Releases the OPC UA Field eXchange Specifications

  • December 2, 2022
  • News

The release of the UAFX specifications heralds the dawn of a new generation of secure, open standard based Field Level communications.

Takebishi Selects ICONICS to Deliver OPC Servers in the Americas & EMEA

  • October 14, 2022
  • News

This partnership will bring focused customer value for the proven, high quality and extremely competitive OPC Server solution called DeviceXPlorer OPC Server.

OPC Foundation and FieldComm Group Cooperate to Develop an Instrumentation Device Profile for OPC UA Field eXchange

  • August 24, 2022
  • News

The cooperation will harmonize OPC UA-based field instruments and accelerate development and adoption in automation.