KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Softing Inc., a leading OPC technology provider, is supporting the OPC Foundation by maintaining the official OPC UA .NET protocol stack. In addition, Softing has developed and is maintaining the official OPC UA compliance test tool that is used to verify the correct implementation of OPC UA products.
“The OPC Foundation recognizes the importance of developing and maintaining the highest quality technology to accompany the OPC Foundation specifications, and has been leveraging the great resources and expertise of Softing to develop and maintain the OPC Foundation OPC UA .NET deliverables and OPC Foundation certification tools to truly enhance the OPC Foundation portfolio,” says Thomas J Burke, OPC Foundation President & Executive Director.
“Customers that use Softing’s OPC UA Toolkits automatically benefit from the fact that they are building a product that is based on a fully compliant OPC UA protocol stack, “ explains the Softing OPC product manager Cristian Pogacean. “In addition, Softing offers solutions to migrate from OPC classic to OPC UA with off-the-shelf products or toolkit gateway extensions.”
Early on, Softing recognized the significance of OPC technology for industrial automation to connect disparate systems. As a member of the European Steering Committee of the OPC Foundation, Softing actively contributes to the success of OPC. With its wide range of products and services, Softing is one of the market-leaders in embedded OPC technology.
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About Softing
Softing Inc. is the North American business unit of Softing AG.
Softing AG is a leading global provider of products for Industrial Automation and for Automotive Electronics. For over 30 years, the core business of Softing Industrial Automation has been industrial data communication in the form of chips, stacks, software suites and hardware modules.
Softing's OPC/OPC UA code is the reference software for the OPC Foundation. The company is also a market leader in FOUNDATION fieldbus as well as other fieldbus technologies such as PROFINET and EtherNet/IP. For enterprise level communications, Softing has its OPC/OPC UA software suite, dataFEED OPC, which provides OPC/OPC UA Client and Server connections. The company also has a range of hardware-based OPC UA Server modules. For end-to-end database-to-controller data exchange the company offers both in-chassis and standalone hardware modules in its tManager and echocollect modules.
