OPC and OPC UA Solutions
With a track record of more than 20 years of experience in OPC technology, Softing is your OPC partner. Softing offers a complete set of OPC Classic and OPC UA (Unified Architecture) products. Softing's complete OPC portfolio provides a range of solutions from embedding connectivity into your OEM products to helping you solve PLC connectivity up to business enterprise systems. Check out Softing's world leading OPC book. Trust Softing with your OPC and OPC UA connnectivity needs.
Products:
| OPC Products | Product Information |
| OPC Development Toolkits | OPC UA and OPC Classic Engineering Development Toolkits for OEMs |
| eATM OPC UA Server | OPC UA Server, in-chassis module for Rockwell ControlLogix PLC |
| eATM OPC UA MDIS Server | OPC UA MDIS Server, in-chassis module for Rockwell ControlLogix PLC |
| echoCollect e | OPC UA gateway for over 50 PLC types, echoCollect e is a multi-protocol gateway including protocols such as MQTT and connectivity to SQL databases. echoCollect e only connects to Ethernet PLCs. |
| echoCollect r/m | OPC UA gateway for over 50 PLC types, including serial addressable PLCs. echoCollect r/m is a multi-protocol gateway including protocols such as MQTT and connectivity to SQL databases. echocollect r/m connects to both Ethernet and Serial PLCs. |
| dataFEED OPC Suite | dataFEED OPC and OPC UA middleware (software acting as a bridge between databases and applications) and server solutions for connectivity |
| dataFEED edgeGate | OPC UA and MQTT gateway for Siemens PLCs and Modbus PLCs. Supports connectivity to Microsoft Azure Connected Factory, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, IBM Watson, Amazon AWS. |
| uaGate SI | OPC UA gateway for Siemens PLCs. Checkout this article on uaGate SI. |
| uaGate MB | OPC UA gateway for Modbus PLCs |
| edgegate | OPC UA gateway for Siemens and Modbus PLCs |
OPC Training
As a world leader in OPC applications, Softing offers education for OPC developers as well as OPC users.
OPC Use Cases and References
Read about the echocollect UA in a project implementation in a worldwide network of plants to realize seamless data exchange (PDF)
OPC Software Trials
Softing offers free trials with the complete functionality. Runtime is limited to 90 minutes. Under "Downloads" Technology "OPC", you will find the trial version for your desired OPC product.
OPC Book
From OPC Data Access to OPC Unified Architecture, the latest edition of the OPC Book provides an excellent overview of the fundamentals, implementation, and application of standardized data exchange via OPC. A key focus is on the new OPC generation – OPC UA – that allows for platform-independent data and information exchange. More information
OPC Certification
Independent Test Lab OPC Certification is the process of ensuring that applications meet the standards specified by the OPC Foundation. OPC Certification requires extensive testing to ensure true interoperability. OPC Certification means multi-vendor system interoperability is guaranteed. If your OPC products are not certified, you need to ask your vendor what sort of guarantees they offer.