ISA Interchange

Welcome to the official blog of the International Society of Automation (ISA).

This blog covers numerous topics on industrial automation such as operations & management, continuous & batch processing, connectivity, manufacturing & machine control, and Industry 4.0.

The material and information contained on this website is for general information purposes only. ISA blog posts may be authored by ISA staff and guest authors from the automation community. Views and opinions expressed by a guest author are solely their own, and do not necessarily represent those of ISA. Posts made by guest authors have been subject to peer review.

Is It Possible to Reduce Industrial Automation Costs Without Sacrificing Quality?

Many decision-makers view the cost of industrial automation as a significant barrier to adoption. Ho...
Emily Newton Aug 15, 2023 8:00:00 AM

Key Factors of Wireless Real-Time Networks: From Dependability to Timeliness

There are moments when the occurrence of errors could not imply the observation of any kind of distu...
Contributing Authors Apr 15, 2022 5:30:00 AM

10 Benefits of Having an Electrical Control Panel

Electrical control panels are the collection of electrical devices that control the functioning of d...
Alisha Hill Oct 8, 2021 5:30:00 AM

What No One Tells You About Industrial Automation Marketing (Part 2)

Catch up with this series by reading Part 1. Complacency and stagnation. Two words that will crush a...
Chris Sciulli Nov 3, 2020 5:00:00 AM

What No One Tells You About Industrial Automation Marketing (Part 1)

So you’re a marketer in an industrial automation company. You’ve got it down, right? At this point, ...
Chris Sciulli Oct 20, 2020 5:15:00 AM

How Process Historians Turn Data Into Actionable Information

At one time, process historians were simply software packages used to store and present real-time pr...
Wayne Matthews Mar 2, 2020 5:42:57 AM

How New Technology Is Enabling Wider Application of Wireless Valve Control

It took many years, but wireless technology has become accepted by skeptical instrument engineers wo...
Shuji Yamamoto Feb 26, 2020 6:42:04 AM

How to Implement Secure, Remote Access to an Industrial Automation System

Remote access to local programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), and o...
Jonathan Griffith Feb 24, 2020 7:42:39 AM

How to Reduce Control Valve Noise

This post was authored by Hans D. Baumann, Ph.D., PE, author of Fluid Mechanics of Control Valves: H...
Hans D. Baumann Feb 17, 2020 7:42:53 AM

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