Thomas Burke, President & Executive Director, OPC Foundation

The OPC Foundation is the world’s leading community for interoperability solutions based on OPC communication specifications that deliver universal connectivity.

  • International: OPC UA is Standard IEC62541 570+ Members Worldwide
  • Security: Integrated „by Design“ - Analyzed by the BSI
  • Scalable: Sensor to the IT cloud
  • Independent: Vendor, Operating System Industry and Language
  • Transport independent: TCP / HTTPS / UDP / AMQP / MQTT / Extensible

The mission of the OPC Foundation is to manage a global organization in which users, vendors and consortia collaborate to create data transfer standards for multi-vendor, multi-platform, secure and reliable interoperability in industrial automation.

Thomas Burke, President & Executive Director, OPC Foundation

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OPC Foundation

World’s leading community for interoperability solutions

The OPC Foundation is the world’s leading community for industrial interoperability solutions based on OPC communication specifications that deliver universal connectivity. The mission of this community of vendors, end-users, integrators, and educators is to advance the development, adoption, and certification of OPC products.

Education, awareness, and adoption of the OPC specifications

OPC is the interoperability standard for secure, reliable, and platform-independent information exchange. It provides open connectivity by defining an interface between clients and servers, as between servers and other servers, for different fields of applications.

With 577 member companies today, the OPC Foundation promotes education, awareness, and adoption of the OPC specifications through global compliance and collaboration programs. As the official source for the OPC Certification Program, the OPC Foundation helps ensure that OPC products plugand- play in real-world applications. For more information, visit www.opcfoundation.org.

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Ready for the Future

In 2017, the OPC Foundation released several key developments including a new Publish/Subscribe model, founded new subsidiaries such as OPC Korea, and opened new certification labs. In 2018, the company will continue to drive forward the adoption and adaption of the global interoperability standard for Industry 4.0 and the IIoT with new publications, new companion specifications, and new high-profile partnerships such as Huawei and Samsung. Stefan Hoppe, Global Vice President, OPC Foundation, in an interview with RFID & Wireless IoT Global

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OPC UA for ISA100 Wireless

Collaboration: Kick-Off - WCI & OPCF JWG “UA for ISA100 Wireless". The joint ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) and OPC Foundation Working Group will develop an OPC UA Information Model and companion specification for use with ISA100 Wireless technology. WCI anticipates that working group will also result in updates to the ISA100 technology to fully exploit OPC UA technology for support IOT ISA100 Wireless products. WCI defines a standardised data exchange format for the engineering process of production systems. OPC UA defines a communication infrastructure that can be used to exchange files based on the WCI standard.

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OPC Foundation announces Director of Field Level Communications Initiative

Peter Lutz coordinates the initiative Field Level communications including TSN The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce the nomination of Peter Lutz as the new Director of the Field Level Communication (FLC) Initiative. In his new position, he will lead and drive forward the development of the initiative and the specifications. Throughout his career, Peter Lutz led various international projects, initiatives and consortia that developed and promoted innovative technologies for the benefit of users and suppliers in the industrial market. After the official presentation at the SPS IPC DRIVES fair 2018 in Nuremberg, the Field Level Communication Initiative was established within the OPC Foundation and has started its work.

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OPC Foundation appoints Stefan Hoppe as new President

Stefan Hoppe is elected President and Executive Director of the OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation welcomes Stefan Hoppe as its next President and Executive Director. Mr. Burke, the former President and Executive Director, nominated Mr. Hoppe as his successor before resigning during the last Board of Directors meeting. Mr. Hoppe was elected by the board in the same meeting. Mr. Burke will remain as an officer on the Board of Directors and will continue his widespread evangelism for OPC UA adoption across various domains. Stefan Hoppe took over the operational activities and responsibility for worldwide adaption of the OPC standards and the further development of the organization.

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VDMA releases OPC UA Companion for Robotics and Machine Vision

In the smart factory of the future, machines must speak the same language. At their press conference held at automatica 2018, the OPC UA machine vision and robotics working groups released the first versions of their companion specifications. “Interoperability is the key for distinguishing our products in a connected world of Industrie 4.0. OPC UA is the designated standard to make machines talk the same language in the smart factory of the future. With the release of the companion specifications, we have reached a major milestone on this way”, Dr. Horst Heinol-Heikkinen, Chairman of the VDMA OPC Vision Initiative concluded. “The VDMA (Germany's association for the mechanical engineering industry) recognized the potential of OPC UA at an early stage and promoted the standardization of data and interfaces of devices and machines in its sectors in an exemplary and consistent manner with its members”, Stefan Hoppe, Global Vice President of the OPC Foundation, added.

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Kaspersky Labs Report Review Confirms OPC UA Security Strength

Review of Kaspersky Labs Report Confirms OPC Foundation’s Transparent, Open Source OPC UA Implementations Strategy Improves Security The Kaspersky Labs report issued on May 10th, 2018 has garnered a lot of media attention based on its claim of having identified 17 security issues in some OPC UA implementations. A detailed description of the 17 issues can be found at https://opcfoundation.org/security/. The OPC Foundation has and continues to be committed to ensuring the OPC UA standard provides the highest levels of security and as such has reviewed the claims made in the Kaspersky report.

Stefan Hoppe
Stefan Hoppe
President
Verl, Germany
Thomas J. Burke
Thomas J. Burke
Strategic Marketing Officer
Ravenna, Ohio, USA
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