ODVA’s mission is to be a global and independent standards development organization that creates, maintains and promotes open standards for best-in-class, interoperable and sustainable automation networks. A key objective of this mission is to promote the adoption of the technologies contained within these standards by a robust population of competitors making products for these technologies that interoperate in systems comprised of products from multiple vendors — giving users the ability to choose from suppliers and products that provide the best performance and value for their unique application. The ODVA specifications are open and available for use by anyone, providing industry with the freedom to implement the specification in any field of endeavor.
In order to become a vendor of an ODVA technology, complete and return an ODVA Terms of Usage Agreement for the relevant ODVA technology. This agreement provides vendors with the necessary rights to make products compliant with the specification and outlines all requirements of vendors. Requirements for vendors outlined in this agreement include (but are not limited to):
In addition, to aid your product development, you may wish to consider:
Consider becoming a member of ODVA to receive preferred pricing on conformance test software and services! Membership is not required to be a vendor; however, for a comparison of costs and benefits, click here to send an inquiry to member services.