GlobalSpec’s Industrial Automation FREE online event will allow you to experience and learn about leading-edge technology and the latest in product introductions and enhancements across the four technology sectors that make up industrial automation: Machine Control, Information and Intelligence, Motors and Drives, and Instruments, Sensors and Networking. From the latest in research and development activities, to key issues and news-making headlines, experience what’s impacting the dynamics of industrial automation and the way you conduct business today. Learn More 

Don’t miss Tom Burke’s presentation.

The New Millennium with OPC Unified Architecture

The OPC Foundation creates and maintains standards for open connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems. These standards, developed through the active collaboration of competitive vendors, ensure multi-vendor, multi-platform interoperability. Learn how an entirely new set of standards, called “OPC – Unified Architecture,” connects manufacturing control with the IT world. OPC UA incorporates all the functionality of existing standards, and places them into a new framework using XML and Web services

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Key Take-Aways:

• Create complex systems that are truly plug-and-play.
• Build custom applications that are interoperable in a multi-platform environment.
• Select and evaluate products from multiple vendors to build best-of-breed interoperable solutions.
• Understand the difference between proprietary open systems and truly successful international industry standards.