Panelist: Open Architecture: Progress and Benefits

Presenter: The Journey to Digitalization Begins Here

David DeBari is an R&D Team Leader and innovator within Automation and Process Control Engineering for the ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company. He has many years of automation experience in both continuous and batch processes and has built, migrated, or replaced a variety of automation systems in numerous projects. David is the ExxonMobil Open Process Automation (OPA) Program Technical Team Leader and one of the original members of ExxonMobil’s OPA Program Team formed in 2012. He has provided technical leadership for the proof of concept, pilot unit prototype project, and the Test Bed Facility and currently guiding the OPA Field Trial Project R&D activities for the ExxonMobil Program.