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Whitepapers, case studies, technical briefs, and presentation decks covering Open Process Automation, DCS migration, and advanced control applications.
Whitepapers
Will Your APC Survive Your DCS Migration?
How to protect APC, inferentials, optimisation and machine learning models through a control system change: five questions to ask before you sign, a value worksheet and a 90-day starting plan.
Read & download →The $0.29 per Barrel Question: How to Test Any Refinery AI Claim
Five tests, a 15-line scorecard and ten vendor questions for judging a refinery AI benefit claim, using Honeywell’s per-barrel estimate as the worked example.
Read & download →Buying Automation by Interface: What O-PAS Changes in EPC Project Execution
What changes from FEED to FAT and commissioning when a control system is specified by interface, three scenarios for the EPC role, and the questions an owner’s RFP could ask.
Read & download →Zero Trust Starts at the Purchase Order
How Open Process Automation addresses the root causes behind the NSA’s October 2026 guidance on hardening OT with zero trust: an activity-by-activity mapping to O-PAS, what OPA does not do, and how to write zero trust into the next control system specification.
Read & download →What Open Process Automation Lets You Do That Your DCS Can’t
Eight capabilities an O-PAS architecture enables or materially improves: orchestration, embedded cybersecurity, advanced process control, portable control logic, hardware refresh, contextualised data, continuous improvement and migration by coexistence.
Read & download →EPC O-PAS Bid Readiness Checklist
Architecture, supplier responsibility, conformance, FAT and estimating questions to close before the bid basis is frozen on a project with an O-PAS requirement.
Get the checklist →The Four Tiers of “Open” — O-PAS Procurement Decoder
Four tiers of open, a seven-dimension comparison matrix, and six insertion-ready RFQ clauses for DCS modernization specs. For the full project requirement set, use the O-PAS Procurement Specification Checklist.
Get the white paper →Introduction to Open Process Automation
Overview of the O-PAS standard, architecture, and business case for owner-operators.
Read →DCS Migration Strategies for Brownfield Facilities
Phased migration approaches that minimize operational risk while modernizing automation.
Read →Cybersecurity Architecture for OPA Systems
IEC 62443 implementation guide for open process automation environments.
Read →Advanced Process Control in OPA Environments
MPC, real-time optimization, and inferential measurement on open platforms.
Read →Industry White Papers
Sector-specific analyses of Open Process Automation versus traditional PLC and DCS control — the pain points, the economics, and a practical migration path for each industry. Each is a comprehensive, 30-page PDF.
OPA for Oil, Gas & Refining
Turnaround-aligned DCS modernization, APC portability, and the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge proof point — with the cost case that comes straight from this industry.
Download PDF →OPA for Water & Wastewater
Aging infrastructure, distributed remote fleets, AWIA and cybersecurity drivers, and how open architecture answers the sector’s obsolescence and lifecycle-cost problem.
Download PDF →OPA for Chemicals & Petrochemicals
Continuous and batch processing, ISA-88 recipe control, the large DCS installed base, and the lifecycle-cost and obsolescence case for open control.
Download PDF →OPA for Pharma & Life Sciences
Batch processing under a heavy regulatory overlay — GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, validation and data integrity — plus Module Type Package (MTP) and where openness fits.
Download PDF →OPA for Power Generation
Turbine controls, boiler and BOP DCS, renewables and storage integration, with NERC CIP cybersecurity as the dominant driver.
Download PDF →OPA for Metals & Minerals
Mining, smelting, and mineral processing across remote sites — DCS, PLC/SCADA, and drives — with energy and commodity-cycle economics.
Download PDF →Case Studies
Refinery FCC Unit — OPA Pilot Implementation
Proof-of-concept OPA control of a fluid catalytic cracking unit with real-time APC.
Download →Chemical Plant DCS Migration
Phased migration from legacy DCS to OPA-compliant architecture in specialty chemicals.
Download →Multi-Burner Fired Heater APC
High-speed MPC with 100ms control cycles for thermal efficiency optimization.
Download →Presentations
OPA for Owner / Operators
How end users benefit from Open Process Automation.
Download →OPA Business Case
A detailed financial analysis of OPA vs. traditional control systems.
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MPC Tools & Diagnostics
MPC Health Checklist
Five-category commissioning and review checklist covering model readiness, disturbance coverage, tuning, constraints, and operations support.
Download →MPC Failure Diagnostic Tool
Describe the symptom your controller is showing. Get ranked root causes and first diagnostic steps drawn from 47 years of process control practice.
Open Tool →Free account required · Sign up at CSI Insights
MPC Performance Self-Assessment
20 questions across five categories. Receive a scored health report showing where your MPC implementation is strongest and where it is most at risk.
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