PETRONAS head of technical excellence and custodian of instrumentation & control, Sharul A-Rashid, discusses the immense value of open process automation (OPA) and how it can help improve both environmental and business sustainability. He is the co-chair of the certification working group of the Open Process Automation Forum, a global initiative to develop open, vendor-neutral technology standards and certifications. Rockwell Automation is a member.
In the interview, we talked with Sharul on a number of key issues impacting PETRONAS and his team including:
- [00:26 - 01:40] Challenges in Oil & Gas industry
- [01:50 - 03:29] PETRONAS' sustainability journey so far
- [03:35 - 05:31] The Future: Open distributed control systems
- [05:26 - 06:33] Building Open Process Automation (OPA) capabilities through a testbed
- [06:34 - 07:42] Impact of OPA
- [07:44 - 08:20] Rockwell Automation's role in OPA initiative
- [08:36 - 09:45] The Value of Portability in Software
