Since about 2015, when Don Bartusiak, the then chief engineer at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, publicly advocated for the development of a new, standards-based, open—yet secure—process control ...

Lori Schafer is CEO of Digital Wave Technology, an AI/GAI-native platform for master data with RAD for unified enterprise solutions. As AI adoption accelerates, many consumer-facing companies are ...

Automation is not a new concept and has taken many forms, whether business process automation, application-to-application messaging or even robotic engineering and manufacturing. As these automation ...

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* ...

For decades, the OT world has had to navigate the challenges of proprietary systems and vendor lock-in as they pined for solutions modeled on the open standards and interoperability precedents that ...

If you think your process automation system has run its course, you’re not alone. It was recently forecast that $65 billion worth of process automation systems are nearing the end of their useful life ...

Ineffective communication can lead to misunderstandings, errors, duplicated efforts and lack of clarity on a project’s status. Companies that lack a collaborative and transparent environment are ...

Control system technologies are continually evolving, providing designers and facility owners with an ever-increasing array of options. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control ...