Since 1996, the OPC Foundation has facilitated the development and adoption of the OPC information exchange standards. As both advocate and custodian of these specifications, the Foundation’s mission is to help industry vendors, end-users, and software developers maintain interoperability in their manufacturing and automation assets. The OPC Foundation is dedicated to providing the best specifications, technology, process, and certification to achieve multivendor, multiplatform, secure, reliable, interoperability for moving data and information from the embedded world to the enterprise cloud. The Foundation serves over 880 members worldwide in the Industrial Automation, IT, IoT, IIoT, M2M, Industrie 4.0, Building Automation, machine tools, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and Smart Energy sectors. The OPEN-SCS initiative Over last 4 years the OPEN-SCS initiative has created the OPEN SERIALIZATION COMMUNICATION STANDARD (SCS) for the integration of serialization and track and trace systems. OPEN-SCS has not reinvented the wheel – instead OPEN-SCS is based on existing accepted international standards like OPC UA (IEC62541), GS1, EPCIS, and ANSI/ISA-95 (IEC/ISO 62264). OPEN SCS is compatible and aligned with industry best practices e.g., with the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and GAMP (Good Automated Manufacturing Practice).

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