Yokogawa Launched OpreX Open Automation SI Kit and OpreX OPC UA Management Package for Open Process Automation Systems

12/01/2025

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has developed the OpreX™ Open Automation SI Kit and the OpreX OPC UA Management Package, both of which will play important roles in the implementation of Open Process Automation™ (OPA) systems. The products will be available as part of the OpreX Control and Safety lineup. By providing configuration and application portability and interoperability across components from different suppliers, OPA systems allow end users to select and integrate best-in-class components. With these products, customers will be able to more easily optimize overall costs and deploy the latest technology in system construction projects by adopting devices and applications that comply with the Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS™).

Most process industries are burdened with integrating multiple proprietary systems for production control in almost every process plant and facility, including manufacturing execution systems, distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and their respective human-machine interfaces. This can result in elevated capital costs and operating costs. To solve this issue, the Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF) was formed and has developed the O-PAS standard to enable a new generation of process control systems using the latest in IT/OT technologies and improved cyber security. Field tests to operate plant equipment using this standard have already begun.

OPA systems require devices and applications to be O-PAS compliant, and these products must have a mechanism that allows them to be operated as distributed control nodes (DCNs). In addition, products and services are also needed to facilitate the integrated management of OPC UA-based applications that run on these OPA systems. To meet these emerging needs, Yokogawa has developed the OpreX Open Automation SI Kit and the OpreX OPC UA Management Package.

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