Why Traditional Vendors Will Fail

Open Process Automation (OPA) is redefining the industrial control landscape through modularity, vendor neutrality, interoperability, and lifecycle flexibility. However, most legacy control system providers remain fundamentally misaligned with OPA’s core principles and technical requirements. As the industry accelerates toward open standards, it is critical for engineering teams to understand why traditional vendors are likely to falter—and how to achieve genuine openness.

Where things stand with OPA in 2024

With plenty of activity at the Open Process Automation Forum and UnviversalAutomation.org, the piece are slowly falling into place to develop an ecosystem of products that support multi-vendor automation architectures and standards

COPA Announces Verified DCN

Announcing the first Open Process Automation (OPA) Distributed Control Nodes (DCNs) that have successfully completed verification testing for the O-PAS Standard.