The First O-PAS Certified Controller Is Here
ASRock Industrial's iEP-5010G-010 is the first product independently certified under The Open Group's O-PAS Certification Program. Self-declared conformance is no longer the bar.
On 4 August 2026, ASRock Industrial announced that its iEP-5010G-010 industrial IoT controller became the first product to earn O-PAS certification from The Open Group.
That is not a vendor scorecard. End users in the Open Process Automation Forum asked for independent testability, not a press release that says "conformant." O-PAS product certification is the program that answers that request.
ASRock Industrial is a COPA partner. Distributed control nodes from ASRock already run in open process automation deployments. Certification of this class of hardware is how the ecosystem is supposed to work: named products, named profiles, third-party verification.
What Was Certified
The iEP-5010G-010 was certified under the O-PAS Certification Program for O-PAS Standard, 2nd Edition. It conforms to:
- OSM-003, the Redfish system management profile
- PP-003, the Regulatory Physical Platform profile
Enterprise Transformation Partners and IECEE independently verified the product.
The same platform also holds IEC 62443-4-2 certification for industrial automation and control system components. That is the cybersecurity foundation O-PAS expects at the hardware layer, not a bolt-on after the fact.
OSM-003 is the in-band management path: hardware, OS information, metrics, and DCN visibility through Redfish. PP-003 is the physical bar for a regulatory control device. Together they say this box can sit in an O-PAS system as a known, testable component, not a proprietary black box.
The controller is a fanless industrial IoT platform on an Intel Atom x6425RE, with 6-36 V DC input and a -40 °C to 70 °C operating range. Those specs matter for plant floors. The certification is what matters for the buying committee.
Why Independent Certification Matters
Aneil Ali, director of the Open Process Automation Forum at The Open Group, put it plainly: "From the outset, end users emphasized the importance of independent testability over self-declared conformance, and O-PAS product certification delivers it."
Committees evaluating open automation have heard years of architecture slides. The objection is always the same. Show us a product that an independent lab actually measured against the standard. This is that product.
James Lee, chairman of ASRock Industrial, framed it as a commitment to industry standards rather than a one-off SKU. The useful part for operators is narrower. A certified DCN is something an SI can specify, a plant can receive, and a capital review can defend.
What This Means for COPA
COPA exists so owner-operators can buy open automation as a system, not a science project. That only holds if the components in the stack are independently certified, commercially available, and delivered by partners who already work together.
ASRock Industrial is one of those partners. The iEP-5010G-010 certification does not magically certify every node in every plant. It does prove the certification path is real, and that a hardware vendor in this coalition went through it first.
If you are specifying an O-PAS system, certified components are the difference between a reference architecture and a purchase order. Contact us.
Read ASRock Industrial's announcement and the Control Global write-up. The next job is more certified products in the same stack, not a victory lap.
