Because ODVA TSPs evaluate a diverse range of products in a homologated test environment from many different vendors with range of approaches to product implementation, TSP test engineers are able provide vendors with reliable and timely feedback of the test results allowing the developer to correct any problems sooner than he/she would be able do working alone or, if no problems are found, release the product more quickly. The ODVA conformance testing process brings a range of benefits for vendors, including: Receipt of a Declaration of Conformity by ODVA provides general industry with the assurance that products built to ODVA specifications comply with those specifications. Each product incorporating ODVA technology must be submitted for vendor-independent conformance testing run and administered by ODVA.In signing this agreement, the vendor agrees to comply with the network technology specification and meet a set of user responsibilities. Each vendor is required to sign a Terms of Usage Agreement for each ODVA technology for which they intend to make, have made, sell or have sold products.
ODVA oversees product compliance with the CIP Network specifications using the following processes: Product compliance with these specifications is essential to achieve interoperability of devices with multiple vendors.
ODVA’s specifications ensure a common network interface for those products. Open specifications, such as those managed by ODVA, provide vendors with the ability to build products that will interoperate with products from other vendors, as well as will allow users to choose products that will interoperate in multi-vendor systems.