Helpful Links

While we are always available to answer any questions you might have, below are third party, vendor-neutral online resources that we hope can help you better understand the technologies that we use, the standards that we follow and the choices that are available to you.

• OPC Training Institute
  The OPC Training Institute is the largest OPC training company in the world. It offers hands-on classes both in-person and online and also includes vendor-neutral whitepapers and other online resources available for download.
• OPC Foundation
  The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. Production devices include sensors, instruments, PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, HMIs, historians, trending subsystems, alarm subsystems, and more as used in the process industry, manufacturing, and in acquiring and transporting oil, gas, and minerals.
• MIMOSA™
  MIMOSA™ is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open information standards and Operations & Maintenance interoperability. Its members are solution providers and end-user companies from manufacturing and facility management companies, military organizations, capital equipment manufacturers and asset management software systems suppliers. MIMOSA provides useful Open O&M resources such as whitepapers and presentations.
• OPC Programmers’ Connection
  OPCconnect.com is an independent online resource for developers working with OPC specifications. The site includes OPC background information and links to related materials such as free tools, downloads and OPC tips and techniques.