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.
Stefan Hoppe是控制自动化行业和OPC基金会的长期成员。作为一名电气工程师，他于1995年加入Beckhoff，在那里他开发了OPC Classic Server，并于2006年首次集成到嵌入式控制器中的世界OPC UA服务器。2008年，他启动并主持了Plcopen OPC UA Companion工作组，该工作组在过程行业和离散制造中由多家国际知名供应商采用。In 2010 Mr. Hoppe was elected for President of OPC Foundation Europe.自2014年以来，他担任OPC基金会副总裁和OPC董事会成员。在接下来的几年中，Hoppe先生成为OPC UA福音传教士，越来越致力于采用OPC技术。专家将OPC UA视为新兴互联网和Industrie4.0运动的核心标准。
OPC基金会在Burke先生的继任者中寻找的主要资格是对现有组织的深刻工作知识，这是OPC基金会形成良好的长期愿景，这是战略和协作的心态。与OPC UA合作和促进了超过12年的工作，以及超过8年的OPC基金会领导力，Hoppe先生很适合该职位。
Sharing his thoughts on becoming President Mr. Hoppe said “It is truly an honor to be entrusted with the responsibility and exciting opportunity to lead this incredible global organization towards its full potential. While the OPC Foundation roots come from industrial automation and will always be grounded there, I believe it is our duty to greatly widen our horizons in multiple directions – inside industrial automation but also into other new markets.“ On the future adoption of the OPC technology Mr. Hoppe continued, “the value of the open, secure, vendor independent data interoperability the OPC UA standard introduces is universal and is as important to IoT applications across all markets as Ethernet was to connect computers and is to the Internet. My mission is to position and grow the OPC Foundation to work on this scale.”
伯克先生详细说明了他决定改变角色的决定，“经过23年的惊人，我决定是时候将日常运营的ins绳作为OPC基金会的总裁兼执行董事到下一代。我相信斯特凡·霍普（Stefan Hoppe）是这项工作的合适人选，因为他在许多情况下清楚地表现出了自己的承诺和强大的领导力。我期待他推进OPC基金会及其OPC UA技术。”
Mr. Hoppe concluded “On behalf of the OPC Foundation I sincerely thank Thomas Burke for the vision, leadership, and tireless evangelism he provided all these years. It was great to work with Thomas Burke for the last 8 years and I appreciate his decision to continue his worldwide OPC UA evangelization and contribution of his deep valued insights and strategic advice.”
The OPC Foundation congratulates Mr. Hoppe on his new role as President and Executive Director and Mr. Burke on his transition to Officer and looks forward to the start of a new area under their leadership and counsel.
