Janice Colmer
Janice has worked at Opto 22 for nearly 20 years and is part of the marketing team that strives to share new and relevant content with the automation industry. She enjoys books, camping, country music, and spending time with family and friends.
Sending Season's Greetings and keeping you informed of the 2025 holiday schedule.
As another memorable year comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect on what truly makes Opto 22 special—and that's YOU. To our customers, integrators, partners, and distributors around the world: THANK YOU.
Whether you've been partnering with us for decades or joined our community more recently, your trust in our products and your commitment to solving real-world automation challenges continues to inspire everything we do.
To celebrate, we invite you to watch our holiday greeting video, check our holiday schedule, and most importantly, enjoy this special time of year.
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holiday hours,
holiday schedule
Watch the Fall 2025 CODESYS Tech Talk for a high-level overview of how CODESYS programming is used in today's industrial automation applications.
Are you challenged to select the programming tool that best suits your application? We get it, and that's why you have programming options to choose from in groov EPIC and groov RIO products.
One of the many options is the CODESYS Development System, which lets you use all the standard tools and IEC 61131-3 programming methods, like ladder logic or sequential function charts.
Opto 22 Director of Technical Marketing, Dan White, recently presented a customer application in the oil and gas industry that explains how CODESYS with groov RIO transformed a controls system. Watch the Fall 2025 CODESYS Tech Talk for the full story.
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Case studies,
Webinars,
Oil & gas,
CODESYS,
groov RIO
Learn from PermaCool's experience of scaling custom chillers with smarter automation and remote diagnostics.
Are you dealing with the challenges that come with a third-party or outsourced controls system?
What happens when you need to troubleshoot or make a repair, but you don't have access to the controls?
PermaCool, a busy OEM in the plant extraction industry, encountered a bottleneck when its outsourced components couldn't keep pace. Read this new case study to see how they overcame the limitations they faced and were able to push the boundaries of what they could accomplish.
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Topics:
Case studies,
OEM,
groov EPIC
Now you have a new source for all Opto 22 products, from solid-state relays to the latest groov edge devices.
Looking for a stocking distributor for all your industrial controls? DigiKey, one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components, is now serving as a national distributor for Opto 22 products across the United States.
If you're an engineer, system integrator, or business looking for reliable industrial I/O, controllers, and edge computing solutions, read on to see how this partnership gives you easier access to Opto 22 products.
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Topics:
SSRs,
groov EPIC,
snap pac,
groov RIO,
OptoChannel
Register to attend next week's webinar—see how Opto 22 controllers and I/O publish data directly to Grafana dashboards.
Curious how to use Grafana dashboards for visualizing and monitoring your data?
Join webinar hosts Rene Gamero and Grant Chase to see how easy it can be to get secure, real-time insights from your industrial systems.
Register to attend this informative webinar on December 3, 2025.
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Topics:
Webinars,
groov EPIC,
data visualization,
Grafana
Need help outside of business hours? Bookmark or save this blog post for easy access to documents and resources that can assist you if you need help with product questions or troubleshooting.
One of the best things about Opto 22 product support is: it's free! The dedicated team of technical support engineers is here to help you during regular business hours, Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).
But what if you need assistance outside of business hours?
Several resources available on our website, accessible 24/7, can answer your questions, explain the details of product features, or provide troubleshooting advice. Here's a list of the most popular and often referenced documents that our own support team uses regularly.
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groov EPIC,
groov RIO,
Opto 22 product support
Opto 22's growing network of system integrators now includes Mayfield Scientific—an experienced IIoT solution provider.
Do you need help integrating, installing, or updating your Opto 22 system? Or implementing an Internet of Things project? An OptoPartner can help.
Opto 22 IoT Certified OptoPartners bring the skills and experience to realize your Internet of Things goals. These partners know both automation systems and IT systems.
Get to know IoT Certified Mayfield Scientific, learn what projects they can help with, and what regions they service.
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IIoT,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
system integrator,
OptoPartner
Curious how others are solving industrial control and automation challenges similar to yours? Recent case studies show you how.
Whether it’s incompatible systems, saving costs and improving operations, or dealing with end-of-life products, application stories from customers in your field or other industries can give you ideas for solutions.
Take a look at the most recent case studies in the Opto 22 case study library—we’ve added quite a few over the past year. You can read each story on the web page or download it as a PDF document.
Here are a few case study highlights, so you can see how customers worldwide are solving current industrial automation challenges.
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Case studies,
groov EPIC,
groov RIO
Take advantage of new features, fixes, and improvements in this latest release of the PAC Project software suite, R10.6.
Whether you use Opto 22's basic or professional version of the PAC Project Software Suite, you'll want to hear about some new features and enhancements just added in the latest release.
Let's review the highlights and see what changes you can expect in PAC Control, PAC Manager, and PAC Display.
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Topics:
PAC Project,
PAC Control,
PAC Manager,
PAC Display,
OptoOPCServer,
OptoDataLink
Don't miss the chance to see live demos of groov EPIC and RIO working with Ignition to solve application challenges in the mining industry.
Here's another event to consider adding to your 2026 trade show and conference schedule—especially if you are in the Western United States: MINEXCHANGE.
This annual event takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 22-25, 2026. Get all the expo details and see where you'll find Opto 22.
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Topics:
Events & conferences,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
groov RIO