What is OPC?
What is OPC?
OPC, which stands for Open Platform Communications, is an open standard protocol designed for the communication of real-time data between devices from different manufacturers. This standard ensures seamless interoperability and communication among various automation and control systems, allowing integration across a wide array of devices and applications in industrial automation environments.
OPC, Open Platform Communications. A long time ago you may have known OPC as Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control. OLE. It was developed back in 1996 by an industrial automation industry task force. There's this continuous quest to find that universal protocol that's going to work with everything and anything, and to improve things. The original OPC is based on Microsoft COM and DCOM, object link embedding, component object models, distributed component object model technology, the communications within the Microsoft OS operating system. It specifies the communication of real-time plant data between control devices from different manufacturers. IC32M page 352