A group of leading automation and information technology suppliers are committed to adopting a system architecture that uses the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) over Time-Sensitive Networking ...

Softing's OPC Easy Connect Suite is designed to enhance your OPC DA, OPC AE, and XML DA-based applications. This intelligent set of OPC middleware products simplifies the commissioning and operation ...

OPC UA's scalable security concept. OPC UA has been widely touted as a secure industrial communications technology for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industrie 4.0 applications. In fact, ...

The release of Part 14 of the OPC UA standard known as Publish-Subscribe (“PubSub”) by the OPC Foundation is an important milestone for this key IoT technology. As PubSub continues to gain adoption in ...

Flexible communications software and services can help upgrade functionality while preserving existing HMI and other automation system components. Manufacturing sites simply do not appear in their ...

Dranetz has announced two communications options for its Encore Series power quality, demand and energy monitoring system. The first is the company’s IEC 61850 communications option that will be ...

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 ...

Leveraging the computing industry’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies, PLCopen and other open standards organizations (including the OPC Foundation) developed an open standards ...