Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA)
COPA (Coalition for Open Process Automation) is a global industry consortium focused on transforming industrial automation through open, secure, and interoperable control systems. COPA offers an open control system platform designed to eliminate traditional vendor lock-in, reduce total cost of ownership, and increase operational flexibility for industrial processes.
Key Features
COPA’s control system is built on the O-PAS™ Standard, supporting seamless integration of hardware and software from various vendors, ensuring adaptability for greenfield and brownfield deployments.
Built-in cybersecurity and remote management ensure resilience and safety in modern industrial environments.
The flagship COPA 500 controller provides high availability, robust performance, and modular architecture, allowing users to scale from small PLC replacements to large distributed control systems using proven, open technologies.
COPA Partners
Introducing the COPA 500 Controller
COPA 500 revolutionizes industrial automation with its cutting-edge open control system. Achieve flexibility and efficiency in your production system with the first open control system (OCS)
Feature
COPA
Traditional DCS/PLC
Plug & Play Integration
Low TCO
Open Architecture
Online Upgrades
Open Industrial Control Systems
The COPA control system brings safe and open-architecture capabilities to your industrial processes to improve run-time availability, reduce total cost of ownership, and drive operational efficiency.
No Vendor Lock-In
Interchangeability lets you choose hardware and software from various vendors that work as a unified system, ending obsolescence of systems.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
Significantly cheaper TCO. Slash industrial control system costs by 50% and lifetime TCO by up to 70%.
Built-In Security
Reduce cyber threats. Built-in cybersecurity from day one, easily update as cyber threats evolve.
Scaleable Architecture
One architecture, a unified staff, and reduced spare parts inventory. A single architecture from PLC to large DCS.