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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

OPC is the shortened name for OLE (object linking and embedding) for Process Control, which was based on Microsoft Windows COM (component object model) technology. To address these and other issues, OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) was released in 2008. These tools require access to both real-time and historical data sources.