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What is OPC?

For anyone involved in industrial manufacturing, the following multimedia tutorial provides an introduction to OPC Technology.

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Part 1: OPC Overview - 6m 18sec
Part 2: OPC Case Study - 9m 19sec
Part 3: OPC Specifications - 7m 27sec
Part 4: OPC Compliance - 6m 40sec

Engineers, operations managers, technicians, automation professionals, IT personnel and other will benefit from this presentation as it explains what OPC is, how people are using it and why.

This is a non-technical presentation suitable for anyone involved in discrete manufacturing, process control or interested in leaning about the technology.

This tutorial is produced by the OPC Training Institute and is vendor-neutral. While there are many OPC products on the market, the presentation will focus on the technology and not the products.

Questions the presentation will answer include:

• What is OPC? Is it a product or a standard?
• Who invented OPC and how is it maintained?
• What are the different specifications associated with OPC?
• Why do manufacturers choose to use OPC?
• How do you get started using OPC?