OPC Data Access 2.0

By Control Engineering Staff March 7, 2001

Philadelphia, Pa. -OPC consists of a standard set of interfaces, properties, and methods for use in process control and manufacturing automation to enable communication among control devices, regardless of the controlling software. OPC is based on Microsoft’s OLE (now ActiveX), Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technologies. OPC Foundation www.opcfoundation.org

At a glance…

Standard interfaces, properties, methods allows communication among process control and manufacturing devices, regardless of software

Uses OLE (ActiveX), COM, DCOM