Don’t miss the upcoming OPC Technical Seminar in Boston, on March 13^th.   This will be number two of eight free training seminars this year.  I attended the kick-off session in Long Beach, and can tell you it’s a great opportunity. 

As always these Seminars are designed to cover the fundamentals of OPC including Servers, Clients, OPC Data Access, OPC Unified Architecture, Best Practices and Compliance.  This is a excellent opportunity for end users, system integrators and anyone involved in currently using products or considering using products that involves multivendor interoperability for automation and beyond.   Training and demonstrations of the technology facilitating maximizing the use of products and services is one of the key messages of these events. 

In addition to learning about OPC, how to use the technology and best practices for implementing, attendees also get to talk with industry experts from the numerous vendor sponsors.   Through out the day there are numerous raffles of products and gifts from the sponsoring companies.  (At Long Beach there were beach chairs, toques and iPods!  I wonder what Boston has to offer?)   

The details are as follows:   The OPC Boston Seminar will be held at the Boston Marriott Quincy located at 1000 Marriott Drive, Quincy, MA 02169, ph.617-472-1000.  Registration Badge Pickup, continental breakfast will start at 8:00 a.m. and the presentations will start at 8:30 a.m.  Lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m. and the seminar will conclude about 4:30 p.m. At the completion of the seminar, refreshments will be served until 6:00 p.m.  Register for the free event here, and details on the Boston Marriott Quincy hotel are here.