American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) will host their premier technical conference AFPM Summit in San Antonio, TX.
We invite you to visit Yokogawa & KBC representatives at Booth #28 to discuss industry challenges, trends and the latest technology in energy and emission reduction.
Presentation by Mark Hammer, OPA Product Manager: Open Process Automation Takes the Next Big Step Forward
Energy industry process operations are facing continuous challenges with OT technology obsolescence and interoperability. They are experiencing difficulty in taking advantage of new IT developments in their automation systems. Today’s proprietary systems are major inhibitors to digital transformation. This session will outline the significant progress with the Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS) and how it will enable the agility the industry requires to succeed in light of the energy transition and evolving business ecosystem. In conjunction with Yokogawa, ExxonMobil has been running an O-PAS development testbed since 2019. The two companies have recently announced the first field trial of a complete open process automation (OPA) system. The presentation will provide an update on the progress of the OPA technology, the goals of the field trial, the standards development process status, and an overview of the future for OPA systems.
Tuesday, October 18th at 1:30PM
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Open Process Automation
Open Process Automation (OPA) is an initiative to create a new generation of automation systems with a distinctly different architecture than the Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that are used today for process automation.