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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:00:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The OPC Foundation takes steps to ensure proper certification for products advertised as compliant with the organization's factory floor interoperability specifications. |
| Keywords: | OPC Foundation, OPC compliant, OPC products |
The OPC Foundation just got serious about certification. The organization's mission to create seamless connectivity between factory floor hardware and software has been marred by an informal certification process that has resulted in many so-called "OPC-compliant" products that haven't been tested properly. Unfortunately, it's the end users who pay the price for half-baked solutions that must be reconfigured after the fact.
No more. From now on, any vendor claiming "OPC Compliance Certified" must put its product through a rigorous weeklong test at an OPC lab, said Tom Burke, the OPC Foundation's president and executive director.
The first test lab, which took six months to build, opened in Germany in February. Two additional labs, in Japan and North America, will follow over the next year, Burke said. Each lab will be outfitted with certified OPC products hand-picked by the foundation to serve as the baseline for interoperability testing.
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