Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) outlines future roadmap of its Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS) Schneider Electric moves from hardware-dependent systems to an open software-centric ...

A few years ago at the annual ARC Advisory Group’s Forum, ExxonMobil made clear its intention to use of open, interoperable automation and control systems—a move that ran counter to many technology ...

When we talk about process automation, we are talking about industries that cannot, or will rarely ever, turn their factories off. In industries such as oil and gas, pulp and paper or pharmaceuticals, ...

A big step toward achieving multivendor interoperability with open systems was demonstrated by CPLANE.ai and collaborator ExxonMobil this year: It proved that deploying and integrating general ...

Refinery upgrades are vitally important, but they are complicated to execute. Time-consuming engineering processes and constraints imposed by the need to use vendor-specific hardware make refinery ...