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tion of OPA are reported in this article.
Among the indicators is the appearance
of requirements for O-PAS
conformance in Requests for Proposals
from end-user companies.
Both incumbent DCS vendors
and new entrant companies are
stepping up to perform the systemintegrator
role in the emerging OPA
business ecosystem.
n
Edited by Gerald Ondrey
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Author
R. Donald Bartusiak is president
of Collavorative Systems Integration,
Inc.
(2608 Briarcrest Dr.,
Austin, TX 78704; Email: don.
bartusiak@csi-automation.com)
and co-chair of The Open Process
Automation Forum of The Open
Group. In October 2020, he retired
as chief engineer, Process Control
for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering,
with 33 years of experience. From 1977 to
1984, he was a research engineer for Bethlehem Steel.
At ExxonMobil, he implemented real-time artificial intelligence,
linear and nonlinear model predictive control,
and real-time optimization applications. From the mid1990s,
he held supervisory or senior technical positions
responsible for instrumentation, process analyzers, control
systems, and control applications. From 2000 to
2002, he was adjunct professor at Rice University. He is
a member of IEEE, ISA and AIChE, and has earned several
awards, including (most recently), the Control Engineering
Practice Award of the American Automatic Control
Council. Bartusiak received a B.S.Ch.E. degree from
the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in chemical engineering from Lehigh University.
He has published 10 journal articles and is co-inventor
on five patents.
For more on this topic, see " Open Process
Automation is Gaining Sustainable
Momentum, " by Kevin Finan, Chem. Eng.,
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