Beckhoff Automation is now a member of The Open Group and its well-known Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF). OPAF is an international forum of end users, system integrators, suppliers, academia, ...

It was just over a year ago that the Open Process Automation Forum officially launched as a vendor-neutral technology consortium. Its mission is to provide a collaborative environment where members ...

New Distributed Control Node (DCN) software framework to help drive open automation Solution helps replace vendor-specific hardware with plug-and-produce offer Interoperability and portability support ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has been selected by ExxonMobil as the system integrator for the first field trial of an Open Process Automation* ...

The Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF), launched in November 2016, is defining a standards-based, open, secure, multivendor, interoperable control architecture to satisfy the technical and business ...

New technology center in The Woodlands, Texas to support the development of a new standards-based, open, secure and interoperable process control architecture and host ExxonMobil’s Open Process ...

The International Society of Automation (ISA), Research Triangle Park, NC, and The Open Group, San Francisco, have agreed to a liaison Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate cooperation in ...

San Jose, California – February 4, 2019 – Bedrock Automation, the maker of the world’s most secure open industrial control system (ICS), has established a partnership agreement with Wood, a globally ...

Standards for process automation would save drug makers money, allow them to adopt innovative technologies, and reduce cybersecurity risks, reports a new study. Biopharmaceutical manufacturing lines ...

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