{"id":2967,"date":"2021-11-25T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/opc-standard-in-industrial-automation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:51:57","slug":"opc-standard-in-industrial-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/opc-standard-in-industrial-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"OPC Standard in Industrial Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In production processes, the OPC standard provides coverage and supports industrial automation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The OPC Standard&#8217;s primary objective is to ensure that both production and business systems can operate together.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It provides business and production applications across the entire manufacturing enterprise with access to real-time plant information, making multi-vendor interoperability and \u201cplug-and-play\u201d connectivity a reality.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OPC breaks down the barriers between devices, systems, and other traditionally proprietary factory automation software.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also offers additional business benefits in the form of greater flexibility and reduced costs for the integration, development, and installation of <strong>factory automation<\/strong> and process control <strong>systems<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OPC is here and can help users solve real-world manufacturing problems today.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the OPC standard is essential in industrial automation projects because:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The OPC standard has gained worldwide acceptance, achieving its goals of ease of use, interoperability, and openness around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The growing list of OPC-compatible products continues to expand, facilitating the exchange of information between different automation devices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compatibility with instrumentation, graphical programming, monitoring and control modules, data logging, and process control applications, among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What technology is behind the OPC standard?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is based on the Component Object Model (COM) and is part of the Microsoft .NET Framework\u00ae. OPC<br\/><br\/>It uses the Microsoft .NET Framework to provide \u201cplug-and-play\u201d connectivity and interoperability between disparate devices, systems, and automation software, both on the factory floor and throughout the manufacturing enterprise.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In summary, Microsoft&#8217;s COM specification provides the necessary software infrastructure that defines how applications share data on Microsoft operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In production processes, the OPC standard provides coverage and supports industrial automation. The OPC Standard&#8217;s primary objective is to ensure that both production and business systems can operate together. It provides business and production applications across the entire manufacturing enterprise with access to real-time plant information, making multi-vendor interoperability and \u201cplug-and-play\u201d connectivity a reality. OPC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proatec.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}