Frequently Asked Questions

We have two lines of business:

• Technology and expert consulting services for the design and integration of O-PAS industrial control systems
• Process control software products and applications services

We currently serve the process industries -- continuous through batch -- including the following vertical segments: commodity and specialty chemicals, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, pulp & paper, minerals & mining, electricity generation, food & beverage, water & wastewater.  

Our solutions are also applicable in discrete manufacturing industries.

Each of CSI's principals has over 35 years of industrial or university faculty experience in process control and information technology with companies including ExxonMobil, Intel, and AspenTech.

• R Donald Bartusiak, Founder and President
• John B Vicente, Chief Technology Officer
• Steve Bitar, Vice President -- Applications

• Thomas A Badgwell, Advisory Board member
• Christopher J Lalka, Advisory Board member

CSI is achieving scale through a network of strategic partnerships with other companies listed below.

For control platforms, CSI and CPLANE.ai have assembled the following group of companies into the Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA):

• ASRock Industrial
• CODESYS
• Enterprise Transformation Partners
• Inductive Automation
• Intel
• Nova SMAR
• Phoenix Contact
• Quest Global
• R. Stahl
• Supermicro
• Wood

For software applications, CSI has strategic relationships with the following companies:

• CMiD Solutions
• Eigen Control
• EOSYS
• Intelligent Process Operations
• Jemmac
• Peterson Digital Fabrication
• RedHat
• Spiro Control
• TTTech Industrial