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OPC

Real industrial IT frustration with incompatible systems

Stands for Oh Please Connect, used as a curse word in industrial facilities when systems from different manufacturers either stop passing data between them or will not start in the first place. Often mistakenly believed to stand for Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control, a communication standard for industrial control systems.

Engineer 1: The plant historian isn't getting any data! Engineer 2: Damnit, the OPC server must not be working again!

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