I was encouraged by people's response to OPC UA during last week's SPS Drive Show in Germany.  It's exciting to know that vendors are working hard to release their UA products.  So I thought I would check with my friends at the OPC Training Inst ...[Read More]

The flight that I was drawn back from Germany, was the captains (pilot) last flight before he retires. Obviously the flight attendants made a big deal about the event and there were a number of stories that people told about his 25 years of flying ...[Read More]

This week I spent in Nuremburg, Germany at the SPS Drive Show. It was a three day show going Tuesday through Thursday, November 24 through November 26. Although I missed the Thanksgiving holiday in the US on Thursday, November 26 it was definitely ...[Read More]

I have been getting a lot of questions in the last several months from end-users wanting to learn about OPC UA, now that there are some very significant companies developing and shipping OPC UA products.  So I started doing some research to find t ...[Read More]

I was in Miami recently attending an OPC Foundation Board of Directors’ meeting.  I don’t usually talk about what goes on at those, but this one is well worth my ramblings.  Some of you out there may have heard about a new interface based on Micro ...[Read More]

I spent two weeks in Europe just over a week ago returning from France on Friday, October 2.   I was hesitant to say too much about the things that I did in France until I was out of the country.France was mostly business,  but my French colleague ...[Read More]

We've long believed in the importance of making sure that the OPC Foundation produces the best specifications, technology and process to enable our OPC Foundation members to build and deliver the highest quality interoperable products. The OPC F ...[Read More]

I had the great opportunity to attend and actively participate in the Smart Grid SDO this week.  This particular workshop was hosted by NIST and EPRI,   and very well attended.   There were over 300+ people in attendance at the keynote this mornin ...[Read More]

OPC is excited to be a participant and sponsor of ConnectivityWeek. This is a very exciting opportunity for end-users and vendors to really look at the opportunities for interoperability between industrial automation and other domains inclusive of ...[Read More]

There is a really great article in automation world about one of my favorite topics: EDDL & FDT, Competing or Complementary?  The link for this article can be found here: http://www.automationworld.com/feature-5370 OPC has been actively en ...[Read More]