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OPC Foundation announces North American Interoperability Workshop 2008

January 28, 2008

Scottsdale, Arizona - Today the OPC Foundation announced the 2008 North American Interoperability Workshop will take place in Lake Forest, California, USA from 1:00 PM on Monday, March 31, 2008 through Noon on Friday, April 4, 2008.

All OPC Foundation members are once again encouraged to use this upcoming test session as a mechanism to validate their products and debug / diagnose any interoperability problems that may be discovered. This year's session will enable up to 60 vendors to validate Data Access (V1, V2 and V3) interoperability, XML-DA, Alarms and Events and Historical Data Access.

The purpose of this workshop is to make sure that OPC products work together. This is done by testing interoperability for all required interfaces and functions, as well as validates interoperability for any optional interfaces where practical.

The interoperability sessions also help to improve the OPC specifications as interoperability issues are documented for purposes of adding clarity to the OPC specifications.

In order for a vendor’s Data Access client to qualify to use the new 'Self-Tested' logo, the product must be tested at an Interoperability Workshop with other Data Access servers and it must pass a supervised test with the OPC Foundation’s OPC Analyzer. The interoperability workshop is the only venue where OPC Clients are tested with the Analyzer.

OPC is an industrial connectivity standard that enables process control and manufacturing applications to communicate with each other using an interoperable, reliable and secure connection. Interoperability is apparent due to support by over 3,000 companies with well over 15,000 unique OPC applications.

About the OPC Foundation
The OPC Foundation is a non-profit international standards organization dedicated to providing standards for interoperability in industrial automation. The OPC specifications are open and interoperable interface standards that leverage the functionality and technology of the Microsoft operating systems and architecture (that the standards were originally based and conceived on), and also leverage the technology of XML and Web services (as the key to interoperability between factory floor and the enterprise). The specifications have been created through a collaboration of leading worldwide automation and hardware and software suppliers cooperating together to solve critical end-user interoperability problems.

For more information, visit the OPC Foundation website at www.opcfoundation.org.