GE Fanuc Automation Inc., a unit of GE Industrial, announced that it is building its next generation Proficy solutions based on the new OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) standards released by the OPC Foundation. The announcement was made at ARC Advisory Group’s 14th Annual Forum “Driving Enterprise Performance Through Next Generation Manufacturing Concepts.”GE Fanuc is a founding member of OPC and an active participant in the development of the OPC UA specification. The specification is a result of analysis and design to develop a standard interface to facilitate the development of servers and clients by multiple vendors that can subsequently interoperate seamlessly. The architecture provides secure, reliable communications that are the product of collaboration with other Web services standards organizations.www.gefanuc.com