SAN MATEO, California - Oct. 28, 2021 - Today, the Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA) is pleased to announce a 90-minute virtual broadcast, to demonstrate the world’s first industrial control system based upon the open standard O-PAS. COPA is a diverse group of leading OT and IT technology companies collaborating to create commercial products based on O-PAS. COPA members include Phoenix Contact, ASRock Industrial, CODESYS, Supermicro, Stahl, CPLANE.ai, CSI, SMAR, Yokogawa and ETP.
The COPA member companies have brought together decades of process control and distributed systems expertise. They are innovating and accelerating the open & secure future of industrial control systems. In the broadcast, the benefits of an O-PAS based system will be demonstrated using the COPA QuickStart™ Control System. This broadcast will include the following:
Keynote:
Don Bartusiak, co-chair of the Open Process Automation Forum and founder of CSI. Don is widely known as the "Father of Open Process Automation,” and previously served as ExxonMobil"s Chief Engineer for Process Control.
On-Site Demonstration
of COPA QuickStart Control System
Expert Panel
led by Bill Lydon of Automation.com, including Dieter Hess, CEO of Codesys; Pat McCurdy, VP of Phoenix Contact; Don Bartusiak, CEO of CSI; Bob Hagenau, CEO of CPLANE.ai; and Libanio Souza, CEO of Nova SMAR.
Register today for free here. AMER: Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021 1 p.m.
New York | 10 a.m.
San Francisco APAC: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021 08:30 Singapore | 09:30 Tokyo EMEA: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021 10:00 Frankfurt | 13:00 Dubai More information on COPA and COPA QuickStart is available here or by contacting [email protected].
About CPLANE.ai
CPLANE.ai automates the orchestration of industrial systems across a diverse landscape of hardware, software, and control components. CPLANE.ai removes the complexity of provisioning, managing, securing, and evolving industrial control systems.
CPLANE.ai’s intelligent software platform automates the coordination and configuration of policies and procedures across multiple layers of industrial control infrastructure.
About CSI Collaborative Systems Integration
( CSI ) provides controls systems integration services and control software products for the O-PAS industrial control business ecosystem.
About The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum
The Open Process Automation Forum is an international forum of end-users,systemintegrators,suppliers, academia, and other standards organizations working together to develop a standards-based, open, secure, and interoperable process control architecture. Open Process Automation is a trademark of The Open Group
