New president for OPC Foundation
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The OPC Foundation has welcomed Stefan Hoppe as its next president and executive director. Thomas J Burke, the former president and executive director, nominated Hoppe as his successor before resigning during the last Board of Directors meeting.
Hoppe was elected by the board in the same meeting. Burke will remain as an officer on the Board of Directors and will continue his widespread evangelism for OPC UA adoption across various domains. Hoppe took over the operational activities and responsibility for worldwide adaption of the OPC standards and the further development of the organisation.
Hoppe is a long-standing member of the control automation industry and the OPC Foundation. As an electrical engineer, he joined Beckhoff in 1995 where he developed OPC classic server and in 2006 the world first OPC UA server integrated into an embedded controller. In 2008 he initiated and chaired the PLCopen OPC UA Companion working group which results are adopted in process industries and discrete manufacturing by multiple international well-known vendors. In 2010 Hoppe was elected for president of OPC Foundation Europe. Since 2014, he is vice president of the OPC Foundation and member of the OPC Board. During the following years Hoppe became an OPC UA evangelist increasingly committed to adopting OPC technologies. Experts see OPC UA as a core standard in the emerging Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 movements.
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