Home Thomas Burke President Home OPC launches OPC Foundation North American certification lab, provides pre-testing tools Certification starts with a downloadable compliance test tool that lets suppliers pre-test their product ahead of time. The final step is shipping the product to an OPC Foundation certification lab—without having to send an engineer. Home Certification: When it absolutely has to work as promised Interoperability can and should be certified. A quick look at what industrial automation suppliers and end users should know about certification. Home How you benefit when standards bodies collaborate Why standards groups must collaborate to achieve true plug-and-play products, and what OPC is doing to facilitate interoperability in the next generation of standards and products. Home Embedding smart communications into inexpensive field devices OPC UA now comes on a chip, allowing automation manufacturers to embed 'smart communication' functionality into inexpensive field devices, without the overhead of an operating system.
