Exxon Mobil and Industrial Tech Giants on Open Automation

Portability is ubiquitous in the consumer electronics world. Extending this interoperability to industrial automation holds disruptive potential.

As Domenico Napoli, future offers leader for process automation at Schneider Electric, told Control Global Editor-in-Chief Len Vermillion, on the Control Amplified podcast:

“When we talk about segregating software from hardware, think of the world that we have today with laptops and cell phones, where you have a lot of different hardware vendors and manufacturers using the same underlying software. That's what we want in the industrial automation space, making sure everyone can use the same software, but run that software on their specific hardware or any vendor's hardware.”

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