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OPC Foundation Road Show

Denver, CO: September 18, 2007 - The OPC Foundation conducted the 5th of 6 OPC Technology Road Shows for their 2007 season. Following the July 19th event in Philadelphia, PA was the one day Denver, CO road show on September 18th. Local industry and integrators congregated for this free, full day event to learn how to leverage OPC in industry.

OPC is a standards-based technology used in process automation and discrete manufacturing. OPC helps define how to share data between disparate control systems and software applications. The result is true interoperability.

Tom Burke, President of the OPC Foundation, welcomed everyone to the event by providing a historical look at how OPC has become as popular as it has. Since the inception of OPC in 1996, industry has embraced the standard which has been supported by many vendors.

Randy Kondor, VP of Education for the OPC Foundation and President of the OPC Training Institute, was the master of ceremonies for the event. "OPC has matured into a technology with a proven track record" says Kondor. "We continue to be evangelists of OPC by sharing with end users and integrators the benefits of using OPC to enable interoperability within their operations. These road shows are just one way we do this".

Vendor neutral presentations included:

• OPC Introduction & Fundamentals: Thomas Burke, President, OPC Foundation
  
• OPC Data Access: Tony Paine, CTO, Kepware
  
• OPC Data Access Applications: John Weber, President, Software Toolbox
  
• Using OPC Data Access with Visual Basic: Nathan Pocock, Chief Architect, Software Toolbox
  
• OPC Alarms and Events: Jon Brown, OEM Manager, Iconics
  
• OPC Historical Data Access: Randy Kondor, President, OPC Training Institute
  
• OPC Foundation Enhanced Certification Program: Dan Muller, Director of Product Development, Cyberlogic
  
• OPC Unified Architecture: Thomas Burke, President, OPC Foundation
  

In addition to the presentations, there were many OPC vendors on-site to display their OPC products and services. Event sponsors included the OPC Training Institute, Software Toolbox, Canary Labs, OPC Systems, Kepware, Indusoft, MatrikonOPC, Cyberlogic and others.

The OPC Foundation will be conducting it’s final road show of 2007 in Toronto, Canada on October 10. Shortly, the OPC Foundation will be releasing their 2008 road show schedule. For more information, visit the OPC Foundation website.