“IT meets Automation” was the motto of this year's OPC Day Europe, which took place on May 14 and 15, 2014 in a wonderful conference environment at Festo company offices in Esslingen, Germany. A total ...

Fieldbus organizations like the EtherCAT Technology Group acknowledge the value of OPC UA and see it as a complementary standard in industrial control networking. Courtesy: EtherCAT Technology Group ...

OPC UA including APL, TSN, and 5G for the field: The Field Level Communications initiative reaches a major milestone. Figure 1. FLC initiative developing extensions to the OPC UA framework for field ...

Introduced in the late 1990s, OPC quickly became a global standard for communications to Microsoft Windows computers. Tens of thousands of OPC servers were deployed in every corner of the automation ...