OPC Foundation Competitors

Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global automation leader delivering solutions for the most demanding technology challenges. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Emerson is engineering the autonomous future, enabling customers to optimize operations and accelerate innovation. For more information, visit Emerson.com.

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners. Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability. Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com

Beckhoff Automation is one of the world's leading specialists for automation and PC-based control technology. We are an owner-managed family business that employs 5,300 people (March 2025) around the world, and we generated sales of 1.17 billion euros in 2024. Our headquarters are located in Verl, East Westphalia. Thanks to an additional 23 branches in Germany, 41 international subsidiaries and global cooperation partners in over 75 countries, we are always within close range of our customers so that we can provide support on-site at any time. Our passion for innovation Beckhoff is a high-tech company. Our employees develop and produce our innovative products and solutions entirely in-house, using a strong foundation of PC-based control technology. Bundling all of our skill sets within our own company is a crucial factor in our success. Our product range spans the main areas of industrial PCs, I/O and fieldbus components, drive technology, automation software, control cabinet-free automation, and hardware for machine vision. Our customers use this diversity to successfully implement pioneering concepts for controlling and automating their applications. Our mission is to develop products and automate production processes in such a way that they consume less resources and less energy than in the past. Every year, effectiveness and productivity must be increased to meet the global desire for more prosperity in an ecologically sustainable way. As we say at Beckhoff, 'Engineers must save the world!' Legal Notice: www.beckhoff.com/english/beckhoff/impressum.htm