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The five-year preferred-provider agreement positions CSI as Toggle Engineering’s named Open Process Automation infrastructure partner across Europe, backed by the OPA LaunchPad and a minimum five-year post-delivery support commitment.
Collaborative Systems Integration (CSI), a vendor-neutral Open Process Automation consultancy and co-founding member of the Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA), has entered a five-year exclusive platform partnership with Toggle Engineering, an engineering services firm serving the European process industries.
Under the agreement, CSI will serve as Toggle’s preferred OPA platform provider for European client engagements, while Toggle will serve as a primary channel for Open Process Automation adoption across its European client base.
The partnership formalizes a shared commercial objective: to make Open Process Automation commercially accessible to operating companies that have historically been constrained by the cost, complexity and vendor dependency of legacy distributed control system architectures.
The agreement establishes CSI as Toggle’s named OPA infrastructure partner for client engagements involving Open Process Automation platform capabilities. Toggle retains full freedom over hardware selection, instrument engineering and applications engineering, reflecting the vendor-neutral architectural principles at the center of OPA.
A cornerstone of the partnership is the OPA LaunchPad, CSI’s proof-of-capability platform developed to accelerate client adoption conversations. Toggle will use the OPA LaunchPad as an entry point for client engagements, backed by CSI’s platform expertise, portable IEC 61131 process-control library and structured support model.
Partnership Structure
The agreement connects Toggle’s European project delivery capability with CSI’s Open Process Automation platform, architecture and lifecycle expertise.
CSI is designated Toggle’s preferred OPA platform provider for client engagements requiring Open Process Automation platform capabilities. Toggle retains independence in hardware selection and instrument and applications engineering.
The companies will co-brand client-facing materials and position jointly as CSI | Toggle Engineering, giving European end users and EPC teams an integrated point of engagement for OPA adoption.
CSI commits to a minimum of five years of post-delivery platform support for each project delivered under the partnership, addressing the operational continuity requirements of process-industry owner-operators.
“The OPA movement is past proof-of-concept. What it needs now is a delivery model that operating companies can engage — one where they have a trusted engineering partner standing in front of the technology, not behind it. Toggle brings exactly that. This partnership is how we turn a compelling architecture into deployed projects.”
Trevor Cusworth, VP Sales & Marketing, Collaborative Systems Integration
“Our work starts in the FEED phase of greenfield and brownfield projects. Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen how the choice of control architecture constrains an operator for the next 20 to 30 years. Open Process Automation removes that constraint. Our goal is to help EPCs and end users adopt it with confidence. OPA is emerging, and partnering with a team whose founders helped define the standard is decisive for us.”
Thomas De Kelver, Founder, Toggle Engineering
About the Partners
Collaborative Systems Integration (CSI) is a vendor-neutral industrial automation consultancy specializing in Open Process Automation architecture, implementation, system integration and education. CSI operates under a commercial license from The Open Group for commercial use of the O-PAS Standard and is a co-founding member of COPA.
Don Bartusiak served as Co-Chair of The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum from 2016 to 2023, and Trevor Cusworth is a past Forum Co-Chair. CSI also operates CSI Academy, an industrial automation training and certification program. CSI is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Toggle Engineering is an independent industrial automation engineering firm serving the European process industries, built on more than 20 years of experience in capital-project management and multidisciplinary automation delivery.
Toggle supports the full project lifecycle, including FEED and business cases, owner’s engineering and contractor governance, open-architecture system integration, commissioning, validation and handover. The firm works across the pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, and food and beverage sectors and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
Open Process Automation in Europe
European owner-operators and EPC teams can engage CSI and Toggle Engineering to assess an OPA opportunity, establish the project basis and define a practical path from proof of capability to supported operation.
Media Contacts
Collaborative Systems Integration
Trevor Cusworth, VP Sales & Marketing
tcusworth@csi-automation.com
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Toggle Engineering
Thomas De Kelver, Founder
hello@toggle-engineering.com
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O-PAS™ is a trademark of The Open Group. CSI and Toggle Engineering are independent organizations. References to OPA, O-PAS and the partnership describe the scope stated in this announcement and do not imply endorsement by The Open Group.