2025年3月11日，OPC基金會宣佈其董事會新增三位成員：華為工業數位化首席戰略官胡靜宜博士、亞馬遜雲科技（AWS）製造業全球技術負責人史蒂夫·布萊克威爾（Steve Blackwell）以及谷歌雲（Google Cloud）製造業全球負責人普拉文·拉奧（Praveen Rao）。

Visiting

Stefan Hoppe, Chairman of the OPC Foundation, said: "I would like to congratulate Dr. Jingyi Hu for being the first Chinese to serve on the Board of Directors of the OPC Foundation, and Huawei is the first Chinese company to join the Board of Directors of the OPC Foundation for actively supporting OPC UA in industrial networking products and cloud solutions. We are pleased to see that with the addition of Huawei, Amazon, and Google to the Board of Directors, the world's leading cloud vendors are now supporting the OPC Foundation's cutting-edge standardization efforts, and no other organization in the world has brought together key players in the OT and ICT fields to address the challenges of digital transformation." ”

Dr. Hu Jingyi, Chief Strategy Officer of Huawei's Industrial Digitalization, said: "The Board of Directors of the OPC Foundation has always been composed of representatives from Europe, the United States and Japan. Microsoft, Rockwell, and Honeywell in the United States, Mitsubishi and Yokogawa in Japan, and Siemens, Beckhoff, Schneider, ABB, and SAP in Europe have worked together to set industry standards and lead the industry. At present, China's industry is booming, and has made remarkable achievements in high-end, digitalization and greening. Huawei's appointment to the Board of Directors of the OPC Foundation is not only a recognition of Huawei by an international authoritative standards organization, but also a recognition of China's industry. ”

Hu Jingyi pointed out: "There are four major trends in industrial digitalization/intelligence, namely the digitalization of industrial equipment, the full connection of industrial networks, the cloudification of industrial software, and the valorization of industrial data. Huawei is not only a promoter of industrial digitalization, but also an active practitioner. Huawei will focus on ICT infrastructure and work with partners to build industrial intelligent twins, serve industrial enterprise customers, and promote the realization of the New Four Modernizations. At the same time, Huawei is willing to play the role of a member of the OPC Board of Directors to help Chinese industrial enterprises make good use of the OPC Foundation as a platform for standards and industry organizations, and provide support and assistance for Chinese enterprises in their international development. ”

About the OPC Foundation

The OPC Foundation was established in 2 years with a mission to help industrial equipment suppliers, end users, and software developers maintain interaction in their manufacturing and automation assets. Over the past 0 years, the OPC Foundation has promoted the development and wide application of OPC information exchange standards, realizing multi-vendor, multi-platform, secure and reliable interaction, OPC UA has become the "de facto standard" in the industry, which enables data and information to move from embedded devices to the enterprise cloud, becoming the cornerstone of Industry 0.0. The foundation has more than 0 members worldwide, covering industrial automation, IT, Internet of Things, IIoT, M0M, building automation, machine tools, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and smart energy.