Operate
Track D is about running OPC UA in production. A troubleshooting clinic that fixes broken configurations on camera, deployment and scaling for a plant rather than a demo, and the conformance machinery (profiles, facets and the Compliance Test Tool) that nobody explains.
| Courses | 3 |
|---|---|
| Lessons | 36 |
| Prerequisites | Track A. Track B for the certificate and code lessons. |
| Who it is for | Anyone who owns an OPC UA deployment after go-live: commissioning engineers, OT support, platform teams, and product people preparing for certification. |
What you will be able to do
- You can diagnose a failed connection in the right order instead of guessing.
- You can read an encrypted OPC UA session in Wireshark when you need to.
- You can deploy a client in a container without breaking certificate trust on every restart.
- You can size a subscription design for two hundred machines rather than two.
- You can read a server's ServerProfileArray and know what it will and will not do.
- You can read a Compliance Test Tool report and tell a real failure from an over-claimed facet.
Courses in this track
Troubleshooting clinic
Fourteen broken configurations, diagnosed and fixed on camera, in the order a competent engineer would actually work. Certificates, endpoints, reverse connect through a layered network, namespace shifts, and reading an encrypted session in Wireshark.
14 lessons · about 112 minutes
Deploy and scale
Running OPC UA for two hundred machines rather than two. Containers without breaking certificate trust on every restart, redundancy and aggregation, admission control, connect storms, and the subscription arithmetic that decides whether a plant rollout works.
10 lessons · about 80 minutes
Compliance and conformance
The least-explained corner of OPC UA, and the one that decides whether two products actually interoperate. Profiles, facets and conformance units; reading ServerProfileArray honestly; what the Compliance Test Tool does; and product certification versus personal skill.
12 lessons · about 84 minutes
Last verified 7 September 2026 against OPC UA 1.05.07. OPC UA Connect is an educational resource and is not affiliated with the OPC Foundation.