在最重要的时候，大多数消费电子行业似乎都受到高度复杂性和高度不可靠性的困扰。最终用户可以忍受消费电子产品中的缺陷，因为根据电子产品的所有权，他们的期望较低。
但是工业自动化中产品和系统的故障无法容忍。必须为工业自动化系统开发的产品建立更强大的设计和测试环境。必须建立完整的认证授权，以促进多生产产品互操作性。
许多工业以太网组织对根据其技术开发的所有产品都有非常丰富的强大认证。产品制造商将其产品发送到工业以太网组织认证测试实验室，以对产品进行测试或遵守并符合相应的工业以太网规范。
OPC基金会已根据与之紧密合作的工业以太网组织建立了类似的认证计划。供应商必须通过OPC基金会认证实验室认证其产品。最终用户必须激励其供应商确保他们购买的产品经过认证并已由OPC基金会进行了测试。
Certification is the best way to assure that a device adheres to OPC Unified Architecture (UA) and delivers the promised and intended interoperability.
Certification is one of the significant benefits for suppliers who join OPC Foundation as members. While other organizations require vendors to actually come to the testing lab and perform the actual testing, the OPC Foundation certification lab in Scottsdale, AZ provides a complete infrastructure that enables OPC members to remotely test their products. The testing methodology is actually an auditing process performed by the highly trained OPC staff in the testing lab. The result: a certification process that maintains its commercial rigor while making the process as painless as possible for suppliers to get their products certified.
For more information, visitwww.opcfoundation.org。
