Software-defined automation is enabling more flexible, open, and resilient industrial control systems by decoupling software from hardware and supporting IT-OT convergence.

Nova SMAR discusses the growing adoption of OPAS, its global engagement strategy, and the role of open architectures in enabling next-generation process automation.

Insights from the ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2026 highlight how software-defined automation and Industrial AI are converging to enable autonomous plant operations.

Inductive Automation’s CTO outlines the company’s approach to software-defined automation, cybersecurity, ecosystem development, and edge architectures during an executive interview at the ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2026.

Chris Lee outlines AVEVA’s Asia Pacific strategy, highlighting digital transformation, AI at scale, and the role of industrial software in driving performance, sustainability, and innovation.

Utilities are using data analytics and AI to improve load forecasting, integrate distributed energy resources, and maintain grid stability amid rising electricity demand.

A recent ARC Advisory Group podcast explores how industrial electrification and energy transition pressures are driving the convergence of power management and process automation to improve resilience, efficiency, and operational decision making.

Schneider Electric’s Foxboro Software-Defined Automation builds on EcoStruxure Automation Expert to enable hardware abstraction, open interoperability, phased DCS modernization, and IT/OT convergence in process industries.

AWS re:Invent 2025 signaled a shift from generative AI experimentation to physically deployed industrial AI, highlighting advances in compute, agentic systems, edge intelligence, and workforce development

Schneider Electric’s Hany Fouda joins ARC Advisory Group’s Craig Resnick to discuss how open software-defined automation enables industrial agility, interoperability, and long-term operational resilience.