Open Process Automation™ Standard (O-PAS) - Overview

The O-PAS™ Standard is a "standard of standards" for open, interoperable, and secure process automation.

The goal of this workshop is to help end users, system integrators and suppliers to lay the groundwork within their organizations to plan for O-PAS adoption, and to help the Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) in planning our technical, business and outreach work items.

The vision of the Open Process Automation™ Forum is to create a standards-based, open, interoperable, secure process automation architecture to achieve interoperability, security, and portability of configuration and applications.

Owner-Operators (end-users) benefits:

Ease in deploying applications at multiple sites
Easier upgrades
Vendor neutrality of offerings
Increasing competition and innovation in marketplace
Supplier benefits:

Easier integration
Expanded addressable market
Differentiation of products and services
The technical work of standard setting and preparation for conformance certification are underway. Recognizing that the business ecosystem and existing business models will undergo change, the goal of this workshop is to prepare the attendees who are participants in the adoption of standards ecosystem. We will have a discussion among the various players in the ecosystem including End Users, System Integrators, and hardware and software Suppliers to discuss illustrative scenarios and how to incorporate the O-PAS Standard into current and future builds.