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Open Process Automation (OPA) and Digital Twin (DT) technologies show great promise to reduce risk, downtime, and energy consumption, while improving safety and efficiency in manufacturing systems. OPA defines a reference architecture for the construction of scalable, reliable, interoperable, and secure automation systems with products from multiple vendors as a single, cohesive system. DTs are purpose-driven dynamic digital replicas of physical assets, processes, systems, or products. Both technologies enable increased options and competition for accelerating future innovation. However, there are significant challenges to adopting these technologies, including “plug-and-play” interoperability, access to data, access to equipment, and the combination of different DTs for system-wide improvements. This paper demonstrates and evaluates a DT Framework solution for performance monitoring in process …