OPC Foundation

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OPC Foundation

The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. Production devices include sensors, instruments, PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, HMIs, historians, trending subsystems, alarm subsystems, and more as used in the process industry, manufacturing, and in acquiring and transporting oil, gas, & minerals. Source: LinkedIn (25.10.2022)

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Stefan Hoppe

President and Executive Director at OPC Foundation

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Data Standardization Communication

Solution Examples 7

Production line for heat-not-burn tobacco sticks at Philip Morris, machines connected via the OPC UA standard

Stefan Hoppe, contact person

OPC UA creates the semantic foundation for digitalization in manufacturing

Jan 7, 2026Read more →

Consumer goods production system at Procter & Gamble with a controller-level SmartBox edge device, connected via OPC UA for AI and machine learning

Stefan Hoppe, contact person

Make production data usable for AI and ML with OPC UA

Sep 30, 2025Read more →

Roller mill for flour production from Bühler with control technology, connected in a standardized way via OPC UA and Bühler Insights

Stefan Hoppe, contact person

Standardizing machine data in food production with OPC UA – hardware-independent and scalable

Sep 8, 2025Read more →

Equinor offshore production platform at sea, whose plant data is contextualized via the standardized information models of OPC UA

Strategies for data-driven digital transformation in production

Jul 27, 2023Read more →

Connected production line from Rosendahl Nextrom for cable and battery manufacturing with OPC UA as the semantic digitalization standard

Stefan Hoppe, contact person

Data communication with OPC UA in mechanical engineering

Jul 11, 2023Read more →

Automotive production at Groupe Renault with welding robots on the assembly line, connected via the OPC UA standard from the OPC Foundation

Digital transformation at Groupe Renault

Mar 7, 2023Read more →

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Podcast Episodes 1

OPC UA in Practice – About Connecting Old and New Systems and the Context of Data

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