From Interoperability to Accountability: Who Owns the System When Something Breaks?
Open Process Automation (OPA) promises a future of interoperable, multi-vendor control systems that evolve continuously instead of locking operators into decades-long platforms. For many end users, that promise is compelling — even inevitable. But one question consistently stops the conversation cold: “Who do we call when something breaks?” This is not a procurement detail or […]
Security by Design in Open Control Systems: Why Trust Must Be Continuously Verified
For decades, industrial control security relied on a simple assumption:If the system was isolated, it was secure. That assumption no longer holds. Modern control systems are connected, virtualized, software-defined, and increasingly multi-vendor. Open Process Automation (OPA) accelerates this reality — by design. But openness also forces a hard truth into the spotlight: Security cannot be […]
Why Open Process Automation Doesn’t Assemble Itself
Open Process Automation (OPA) has crossed an important threshold. The standards are real. Reference architectures exist. Multi-vendor interoperability has been demonstrated. End users are no longer debating whether open control systems make sense — they are asking how to make them work in production. This is where a hard truth emerges. Open systems don’t assemble […]