OPC Foundation opens Certification Test Lab
 
OPC基金會開設認證測試實驗室

Scottsdale, AZ, February 25, 2008 -- The OPC Foundation has announced the opening of its first Independent Certification Test Lab to validate and certify OPC products. The new Test Lab is located at the premier facility of Ascolab in Erlangen, Germany.

Scottsdale2月25日消息——OPC基金會宣布設立其第一個獨立的認證測試實驗室，驗證和證明OPC產品。新的測試實驗室設在德國Erlangen市Ascolab公司的第一工廠。

OPC Foundation President and Executive Director Tom Burke said: “The Ascolab staff members have been designers and developers of OPC Certification tools since our earliest days. They are widely acknowledged as ‘the experts’ in OPC Certification and they provide a solid foundation on which to build our certification program.”

OPC基金會主席和行政總裁Tom Burke表示： " 從我們最早的時候起，Ascolab的員工成員就成為了OPC認證工具的設計者和開發者。他們被廣泛認為OPC認證的‘專家’，而且他們為建立我們的認證計劃提供了一個堅實的基礎。“

"Companies who purchase OPC-compliant products expect secure, reliable interoperability in a highly plug-and-play fashion,” said Burke. “All products newly-certified by the Test Lab will carry a new ‘OPC Foundation Certified’ logo, thus providing end users with an assurance of excellence. The Certification program means that users can expect reduced system installation costs and products that will perform reliably in multi-vendor installations.”

Burke表示：”購買了OPC兼容產品的公司都希望能夠在一個高度即插即用的方式里確保安全可靠的互操作性。所有最新獲得測試實驗室認證的產品將貼有一個新的‘OPC基金會認證’標志，從而為終端用戶提供了卓越的保證。該認證計劃意味著用戶可以預期降低系統安裝成本，產品也將可以可靠地運行于多供應商設備中。”

According to Craig Resnick, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group, "Compliance certification will provide manufacturers with the confidence that their suppliers products will work right out of the box with any other suppliers product that's compliance certified.”

ARC咨詢集團研究主任Craig Resnick評論道：“兼容性認證將使制造商相信，他們供應商的產品將可以與其他供應商通過兼容性認證的產品開箱即用。”

By specifying the purchase of OPC Certified products, users will ensure interoperability. “Too much time has been spent by us in the past playing referee between suppliers who point fingers at each other instead of coming together to deliver solutions,” said Bruce Honda, Process Control Advisor, Weyerhaeuser. “Certifying to a common set of functions and features should assure that manufacturers like us get true compatibility between different supplier’s products."

通過購買特定的OPC認證產品，用戶將可確保互操作性。Weyerhaeuser 公司過程控制顧問Bruce Honda表示："過去我們花了大量的時間作為互相職責的供應商之間的裁判，而不是共同提供解決方案。為一套共同的功能和特點認證將保證類似我們這樣的制造商獲得不同供應商產品之間的真正兼容性。“

John Weber, President of Software Toolbox, one of the OPC Foundation Member companies, added: “End-users want quality products, and one of the primary OPC Foundation goals must be to ensure delivery of the highest quality OPC products. End-users already expect at a minimum that products will have been through existing OPC Foundation self-certification testing. In the long term, as our Test Lab program rolls out worldwide, they will also look for the independent OPC Foundation Certification logo.” Software Toolbox is one of the first companies certifying their products through the new Test Lab.

OPC基金會成員公司之一的Software Toolbox公司總裁John Weber補充道：”終端用戶需要高質量的產品，OPC基金會的其中一個最主要目標必須是確保提供最高品質的OPC產品。終端用戶已經最低限度預計產品將通過現有的OPC基金會的自我認證測試。就長期而言，隨著我們的測試實驗室計劃推向全球，他們還將需要單獨的‘OPC基金會認證’標志。Software Toolbox就是首批其產品通過最新的測試實驗室認證的公司之一。“

Paul Hunkar, OPC Foundation Director of Compliance & Certification and consultant engineer at ABB commented: “To successfully integrate complex systems using products from multiple vendors requires that products be completely interoperable and simple to maintain, while providing plug-and-play configuration and high reliability. The Independent Certification Test Lab system provides the infrastructure to ensure that vendors are designing and shipping high-quality, high-performance and high-functionality products.”

OPC基金會兼容及認證主任兼ABB顧問工程師Paul Hunkar評論道：”要使不同供應商的產品成功地組成復雜的系統需要產品具有完全的可互操作性，而且維護簡單，同時需要即插即用配置和較高的可靠性。獨立的‘認證測試實驗室’系統提供了基礎設施，以確保廠商正在設計和交付高品質、高性能和多功能的產品。“

The backbone of the Independent Certification Test Lab is the reference hardware/software that is the basis for testing all other products. The following companies have provided hardware/software to the lab as part of this program: ABB, Beckhoff, Cyberlogic, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, ICONICS, Kepware, Matrikon, OSI, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Softing, Software Toolbox and Wonderware.

獨立認證測試實驗室的主要工具是檢驗所有其他產品的基礎的參照硬件/軟件。以下公司為實驗室提供了硬件/軟件作為計劃的一部分：ABB、Beckhoff、Cyberlogic、 GE發那科智能平臺、ICONICS、Kepware、Matrikon、OSI、羅克韋爾自動化、西門子、Softing、Software Toolbox 以及Wonderware。

All successfully-tested products and their certification details will be posted on the OPC Foundation website. End-users will use the online product catalog as a tool to make intelligent purchasing decisions.

所有成功通過測試的產品及其認證詳情將公布在OPC基金會網站。終端用戶將使用在線產品目錄作為工具，以作出明智的購買決定。

About The OPC Foundation
關于OPC基金會

The OPC Foundation, dedicated to interoperability in automation and enterprise computing, is an independent, non-profit organization that comprises leading manufacturers and solution providers in factory and process automation as well as enterprise solutions. The OPC Foundation's charter is to develop worldwide industry-standards for data transfer offering multi-vendor interoperability and seamless connectivity of measurement and automation devices, systems, networks, and enterprise computing solutions used in the manufacturing and process industries, by leveraging open computing technologies. Development of specifications is undertaken by volunteers from 450+ members worldwide. 

OPC基金致力于自動化和企業計算機領域的互操作性，是一個獨立的非贏利性組織，由來自工廠和過程自動化以及企業解決方案行業領先的制造商和解決方案供應商組成。OPC基金會的宗旨是通過利用計算機技術，為數據傳輸開發全球性的工業標準，提供跨廠商的互操作性以及應用于制造和流程工業的測量和自動化設備、系統以及企業計算機解決方案無縫連接性。規范的開發是由全球450多個成員的志愿者承擔的。

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