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OPC Foundation announces OPC UA ADI Reference Implementation

March 12, 2010; : The OPC Foundation announces the release of the OPC UA ADI Reference Implementation. Specification available here. Code available here. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation Announces Release of OPConnect Issue 23

March 8, 2010; : The OPC Foundation and Automation World released OPConnect Issue 23. The newsletter can be found here. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation Announces 2010 North America Interoperability Workshop

March 8, 2010; : The OPC Foundation 2010 North America Interoperability Workshop will be held the week of May 17, 2010 at OSIsoft in San Leandro, CA. OPC "classic" and OPC Unified Architecture products will be tested. Registration is now open. Please register today! [Full Story] ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation announces OPC UA COM Interop Components

March 2, 2010; : The OPC Foundation announces an update to the OPC UA deliverables which contains everything you need to enable interoperability between UA applications and OPC Classic (DA, A&E and HDA) Clients and Servers. Downloads available here. More information here. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation announces OPC Xi Downloads

March 1, 2010; : The OPC Foundation announces the release candidate of the OPC Xi deliverables which contains everything you need to wrap an existing OPC Classic (DA, HDA, A&E) Server for use within the .NET/WCF environment. Downloads available here. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation To Host Training Seminar In Houston on February 24, 2010

February 17, 2010; : The OPC Foundation will host a vendor-neutral training seminar specifically targeted at End-Users and System Integrators, in Houston at the Marriott Houston Hobby, located at 9100 Gulf Freeway, Houston, Texas 77017, Phone: 713-943-7979. The program will begin with a continental breakfast and registration at 8:00 a.m. followed by program start at 8:30 a.m. To register for this event, please click here. Hotel information and directions can be found here. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation Launches OPC Europe

February 3, 2010; : The OPC Foundation launched OPC Europe last week in Munich, Germany. The organization's charter is to manage OPC marketing for Europe. Details are contained in the OPC Foundation Press release located here. Leading this effort are Stefan Hoppe from Beckhoff and Tino Hildebrand from Siemens. ... [Full Story]

OPC UA Part 9 - Alarms and Conditions Specification Release Candidate

January 19, 2010; : The UA Working Group is pleased to announce the availability of a completed release candidate of OPC UA Part 9 - Alarms and Conditions Specification. Members are invited to review the specification and send comments (preferably by annotating the DOC file) to the email address noted on the cover page of the specification. Please provide your comments by 2010-02-19. The latest 1.01 code downloads are compatible with this Release Candidate. ... [Full Story]

OPC UA For Devices Companion Specification Released

December 19, 2009; : The final released version of the OPC UA For Devices Companion Specification has been approved by the Technical Advisory Council and is now available for download by OPC Foundation members. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation Announces Board Members for 2010 - 2011

December 8, 2009; : The OPC Foundation announced the results of the election of Board of Director members for the 2010 - 2011 term at the General Assembly meeting. Reelected to the Board of Directors were Reinhold Achatz, Siemens; Thomas Burke, OPC Foundation; David Eisner, Honeywell; and Nobuaki Konishi, Yokogawa. They join Russ Agrusa, ICONICS; Ken Hall, Rockwell; and Grant Wilson, Emerson. Thanks to all members who voted and to all who participated in the election. ... [Full Story]

OPC UA For IEC 61131-3 Companion Specification Release Candidate

November 23, 2009; : The PLCopen/OPC Foundation Joint Working Group (PLC) is pleased to announce the availability of a completed release candidate of the OPC UA For IEC 61131-3 Companion Specification. Members are invited to review the specification and send comments (preferably by annotating the DOC file) to the email address noted on the cover page of the specification. Please provide your comments by 2009-12-23. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation Adds Express Interface (OPC Xi) to Technology Portfolio

November 16, 2009; : The OPC Foundation has added Express Interface (Xi) to the OPC Foundation technology portfolio, complementing OPC UA and COM-based OPC Classic. OPC Xi is a new interface based on Microsoft .NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology. More information can be found here. ... [Full Story]

Suppliers Unified for Field Device Integration

November 15, 2009; : To accelerate deployment of the Field Device Integration (FDI) technology, key suppliers have agreed to enlarge the scope of the EDDL Cooperation Team which will become the FDI Cooperation. More information can be found here. ... [Full Story]

Reducing Product Development Effort for OPC Unified Architecture (white paper)

October 29, 2009; http://download.intel.com/platforms/applied/indpc/OPC_Unified_Arch_CS.pdf: The OPC Foundation is proud to announce the results of a joint collaborative effort between Ascolab, Intel, OPC Foundation, and Unified Automation. The focus of the project was to reduce product development for vendors adopting the OPC Unified Architecture in the embedded market space. ... [Full Story]

OPC UA For Analyser Devices Companion Specification Released

October 12, 2009; : The final released version of the OPC UA For Analyser Devices Companion Specification has been approved by the Technical Advisory Council and is now available for download by OPC Foundation members. ... [Full Story]

OPC Foundation announces OPC Certification Portal

September 8, 2009; : The OPC Foundation has made some dramatic changes in the OPC certification information on the OPC Foundation website click here to get wowed ! ... [Full Story]

OPC Unified Architecture Overview For Developers & Architects Webinar

August 2, 2009; : The OPC Foundation conducted a webinar for potential developers and architects of OPC UA products. Download the recorded video and PowerPoint. ... [Full Story]

OPC UA SDK 1.00 Released

July 31, 2009; : The OPC Foundation is pleased to annouce that the UA SDK 1.00 is now released. This version of the SDK includes support for C/C++ and the .NET development environments. The complete set of downloads can be found here ... [Full Story]

Volunteers needed for OPC UA / PLCopen (PLC) Joint Working Group

June 19, 2009; : The OPC Technical Advisory Council (TAC) has approved a charter for a new joint working group with PLCopen to create a UA information model corresponding to the IEC-61131 standard. ... [Full Story]

OPC UA Alarms and Conditions Release Candidate Specification Available for Review

June 16, 2009; : The Release Candidate version of the Unified Architecture Alarms and Conditions Specification is now available for download and review by OPC Foundation members. The validation sample code will soon be completed so the final release will follow shortly. Please send any written comments to the email address on the cover page of the Specification by July 20 to be considered for the final version. ... [Full Story]