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A complimentary review of your current automation architecture to identify opportunities for open process automation. We assess your DCS landscape, vendor dependencies, lifecycle costs, and create a prioritized roadmap.

Initial discovery is a 30-minute call. The full technical assessment typically takes 2–4 weeks depending on complexity, followed by a detailed report with recommendations.

A traditional DCS bundles hardware, control software, HMI, historian, and engineering tools into a single vendor stack with proprietary interfaces. Open Process Automation, built on the O-PAS standard from The Open Group, separates those layers and defines interoperable interfaces between them. The result is the ability to choose best-of-breed components, upgrade individual layers on your own timeline, and avoid the forklift replacement cycles that drive most DCS lifecycle cost.

Total project cost depends on facility size, scope of migration, and how much existing infrastructure is reused. What we can say reliably is the lifecycle economics: operators implementing OPA properly see 60–70% reduction in total cost of ownership compared to a traditional DCS lifecycle, driven by avoided forklift replacements, competitive sourcing, and longer useful life of individual components. Our ROI calculator gives a directional estimate based on your facility parameters, and the OPA Readiness Engagement produces a defensible business case before any commitment.

Implementation timelines typically run 6–24 months depending on scope. A focused unit-level deployment can complete in 6–9 months; a phased migration of a full operating site usually runs 18–24 months and is sequenced around turnaround windows to avoid disruption to production.

Most system integrators built their practice around one or two DCS vendor stacks and treat OPA as an extension of that work. CSI was founded by people who helped write the O-PAS standard itself — Don Bartusiak chaired the Open Process Automation Forum, and our principals were inside the standards development from 2017 onward. We are vendor-neutral by design, hold a commercial license from The Open Group, and publish the State of OPA annual report. We don't sell services around a preferred DCS; we architect open systems against the standard.

CSI operates under commercial license from The Open Group, is a member of the Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA), and our principals hold leadership roles in the Open Process Automation Forum. CSI was named Industrial IoT Company of the Year and has published reference works on OPA architecture used across the industry.

Yes. Most of our engagements are brownfield. We specialize in integrating OPA alongside existing DCS infrastructure with phased migration strategies.

All three. Operators engage us for assessments, readiness work, and implementations. System integrators engage us for OPA-specific architecture and training where they want standards-level expertise without building it in-house. Automation suppliers engage us for conformance work and ecosystem positioning. Our CSI Academy is open to all three audiences.

Yes, with appropriate scoping. Multiple operating companies are running O-PAS systems in production or testbed service today, and COPA member companies have delivered production O-PAS systems under contract. OPA is no longer a feasibility question — it is an execution question, which is the focus of our Flagship Report and the OPA Readiness Engagement.

Refining, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, power generation, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, and mining.