Whether you engineer the control system, answer for the plant, deliver the project, or sign off on the capital, open automation looks different from where you sit. We meet you there.
The move to open automation is rarely made by one person. The engineer who has to make it work, the manager who owns the risk, the integrator who delivers it, and the executive who funds it are all looking at the same decision through a different lens.
CPLANE speaks to each of them in their own terms, with the proof, the path, and the partner to move with confidence. Find your role below.
Setup a Strategy CallOpen automation touches everyone who touches the plant. Start where you sit.
You have to make open automation work and defend the decision internally. CPLANE gives you a certified O-PAS platform, multi-vendor interoperability, and the technical proof to build your case.
For Control Engineers
You own the risk. CPLANE gives you a production-proven path forward, documented cost reductions over 50%, and a phased migration that keeps the plant running throughout.
For Plant Managers
You deliver automation done right. CPLANE was built to be implemented by SI partners, with the training, certification, and support to expand what you can offer your customers.
For System Integrators
You are evaluating a decade-long decision. CPLANE gives you the business case, the proof, and the partner to move on your terms, before the cost of waiting grows.
For Automation LeadersOpen automation is a significant decision. We help you make it with confidence.
We start by understanding your plant, your current system, and where the pain is. No pitch deck. Just a conversation about what you are running, what is not working, and what you want to be able to do.
We help you translate the technical opportunity into a business case your organization can evaluate. That means TCO data, reference deployments, and a migration framework you can actually take to a capital review.
CPLANE works through certified SI partners who own the implementation. We help you identify the right partner for your project and make sure they are set up to deliver.
Before a full deployment, we run a structured evaluation, the COPA 500 EvalKit, so your engineering team can validate the platform in your environment, against your requirements.
We designed our platform to work within your existing relationships. We do not replace your SI. We make them more capable.
Our platform is sold, implemented, and supported by a global network of certified systems integrators. Your SI partner owns the delivery. We make sure they have everything they need to do it right.
Find a PartnerBring open automation to your customers. Our partner program gives your team the training, certification, and support to deliver Open Automation with confidence.
Become a PartnerStraight answers to the questions operators ask most about open automation.
Open automation is an approach to industrial control where the hardware, software, and networking come from multiple vendors and interoperate through open standards rather than a single proprietary system. O-PAS, the Open Process Automation Standard, is the standard that makes this possible. It defines how components from different vendors connect and work together, so operators can choose best-fit products and avoid being locked into one vendor's ecosystem.
It is proven in production. CPLANE runs today at major global operators across oil and gas, refining, and process industries, including the first O-PAS certified deployments in North America and Latin America. These are live, operating facilities, not pilots or proofs of concept.
Operators deploying CPLANE have documented hardware and software cost reductions of more than 50% versus a traditional distributed control system (DCS) replacement. Beyond the upfront savings, open automation removes the recurring cost of vendor lock-in and gives operators leverage over future pricing and upgrades.
No. CPLANE supports a phased migration that keeps the plant running throughout the transition. Operators move in stages aligned to their own schedule rather than performing a single rip-and-replace, which avoids the extended shutdown that switching costs are often assumed to require.
Not necessarily, and it is worth evaluating directly. Open automation interoperates with components that conform to the O-PAS standard. Because O-PAS is a newer standard, much existing plant hardware is not yet certified to it and will not always integrate out of the box. What open automation provides is freedom from single-vendor lock-in going forward: as you adopt O-PAS conformant components, you can mix and match across vendors. CPLANE and your SI partner can assess your current equipment and identify what carries forward and what does not as part of a migration plan.
Yes. Open automation does not require abandoning your vendor relationships. As more vendors offer O-PAS conformant products, you can continue working with the suppliers and integrators you already trust while gaining the ability to combine their products with others. The shift is away from being locked into a single vendor's proprietary ecosystem, not away from the relationships themselves.
Yes. The O-PAS standard is built to IEC 62443, the international standard for industrial automation and control system security. Security is designed into the architecture from the start, with automated response to security events, rather than added as a separate project after deployment.
CPLANE is implemented by a global network of certified systems integrators (SIs). The SI partner owns the delivery, from assessment through commissioning, and CPLANE supports them with training, certification, and technical resources. Operators work with integrators who have been trained and certified on the platform.
Open automation affects control engineers, plant managers, system integrators, and automation leaders differently. Control engineers gain a certified platform and technical proof; plant managers gain cost reductions and a low-risk migration; system integrators gain a platform to deliver and grow with; automation leaders gain a long-term business case. CPLANE provides role-specific guidance, reference deployments, and a structured evaluation (the COPA 500 EvalKit) to help each stakeholder assess the fit.
The risk has been mitigated.
The question is how fast your plant can move.
