AutoQuiz: Which Signal Type Indicates Direction and Velocity in a Motion Control Application?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP) certification program. ISA CAP certification provides a non-biased, third-party, objective...
IIoT Solves Problems Previously Considered Unsolvable
This post was authored by Andrew Hird, vice president and general manager of digital transformation at Honeywell Process Solutions. At a conference I attended, the keynote speaker observed that today is the first time in history that tools in our personal lives are...
How Long Before Watson Comes to Engineering?
This post was authored by Paul Gruhn, president of ISA 2019. Hundreds of years ago, experienced master builders knew everything about their craft, designing and overseeing the building of pyramids, cathedrals, and bridges. Now the world is vastly more complicated, and...
AutoQuiz: What Type of Switch Is Designed to Detect the End of Travel of a Valve?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) program. Certified Control System Technicians calibrate, document, troubleshoot, and...
What Are the Opportunities for Nonlinear Control in Process Industry Applications?
The following technical discussion is part of an occasional series showcasing the ISA Mentor Program, authored by Greg McMillan, industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from...
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Proportional Integral Estimator-Based Clock Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks [technical]
This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to ISA members, or can be purchased from Elsevier Press. Abstract: Clock synchronization is an issue of vital importance in applications of wireless sensor...
AutoQuiz: What Is the Benefit of Industrial RFID Tags Over Barcode Systems?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP) certification program. ISA CAP certification provides a non-biased, third-party, objective...
How Does Heat Transfer Affect Operation of Your Natural Gas or Crude Oil Pipeline?
This guest blog post was written by Edward J. Farmer, PE, industrial process expert and author of the ISA book Detecting Leaks in Pipelines. To download a free excerpt from Detecting Leaks in Pipelines, click here. If you would like more information on how to obtain a...
Webinar Recording: Future-Proof Your Automation Solutions with Standards-Based Design
This ISA webinar on industrial calibration was presented by Rick Slaugenhaupt, a consultant for MAVERICK Technologies, and Nicholas P. Sands, P.E., CAP, ISA leader, author and educator who serves as senior manufacturing technology fellow at DuPont, Capital...
AutoQuiz: When Should Operating Instructions Be Developed for an Industrial Process?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP) certification program. ISA CAP certification provides a non-biased, third-party, objective...
OPC UA and IEC 61131-3: The Integration of Control and the HMI
This post was authored by Gary L. Pratt, PE, president of ControlSphere Enginering and Timothy L. Triplett, PE, founder, chief executive officer at Sacks Parente Golf and previously president of Coherent Technologies, In the beginning…the world was flat. Or at least...
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Improved Classification of Two-Phase Flow Patterns [technical]
This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to ISA members, or can be purchased from Elsevier Press. Abstract: Flow pattern recognition is necessary to select design equations for finding operating details of...
AutoQuiz: Cold Junction Compensation Is Required for Which Type of Temperature Measurement Device?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) program. Certified Control System Technicians calibrate, document, troubleshoot, and...
How to Prevent Cavitation in Butterfly Control Valves
This post was authored by Hans D. Baumann, Ph.D., PE, author of Fluid Mechanics of Control Valves: How Valves Control Your Process and a world-renowned expert on control valve technology. To download a free, 42-page excerpt from the book, click this link. Cavitation...
Four Quick Tips for Making Smart, Strategic Decisions at Your Industrial Plant or Facility
This article was written by Katie Turner, marketing manager at Beamex. During an automation leadership conference at ISA headquarters, Peter Martin, PhD, vice president of business value consulting at Schneider Electric (and a real hero of U.S. manufacturing, as named...
AutoQuiz: What Security Property Is Affected If a Hacker Intercepts and Changes Set Point Data?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP) certification program. ISA CAP certification provides a non-biased, third-party, objective...
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New Method for Tuning PID Controllers Using a Symmetric Send-On-Delta Sampling Strategy [technical]
This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to ISA members, or can be purchased from Elsevier Press. Abstract: In this paper we present a new method for tuning PI controllers with symmetric send-on-delta...
How to Implement Effective Safety Instrumented Systems for Process Automation Applications
The following technical discussion is part of an occasional series showcasing the ISA Mentor Program, authored by Greg McMillan, industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from...
AutoQuiz: What Is a Schematic Representation of a Complete Hydraulic, Electric, Magnetic, or Pneumatic Circuit Called?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) program. Certified Control System Technicians calibrate, document, troubleshoot, and...
What Is the Connection Between All of the Inputs and the Output of an Industrial Process?
This guest blog post was written by Edward J. Farmer, PE, industrial process expert and author of the ISA book Detecting Leaks in Pipelines as well as an ISA blog series on pipeline leak detection. To download a free 37-page excerpt from Detecting Leaks in Pipelines,...
Webinar Recording: The Amazing World of ISA Standards
This educational ISA webinar was presented by Greg McMillan in conjunction with the ISA Mentor Program. Greg is an industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc....
AutoQuiz: What Is the Fastest “Electronic” Method to Bring a DC Motor to a Full Stop?
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP) certification program. ISA CAP certification provides a non-biased, third-party, objective...
Key to Achieving Positive Business Results: Manage Risk Throughout Industrial Automation Infrastructure
This article was written by Sujeet Chand, senior vice president at Rockwell Automation. Maximizing productivity and minimizing risk are the yin and yang of the industrial world—forces that must remain in harmony for optimal business performance. That is particularly...
A Roadmap to Industrial Network Convergence
This article was written by Robin Cobb, PE, PMP, industrial network and security solutions product manager for Polytron, Inc., A global beverage manufacturer was having network performance and communication disruptions between factory floor assets. These disruptions...
AutoQuiz: Unique Feature of a Pneumatic Differential Pressure Sensor/Transmitter
AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager. This automation industry quiz question comes from the ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) program. Certified Control System Technicians calibrate, document, troubleshoot, and...
What AF, ASCI, ISCI, and WCI Are Doing for You
This post is authored by Paul Gruhn, president of ISA 2019. So what are these groups, and why should you care? Do you know why they exist, and what they’re doing to help you, your employer, and the automation industry?First off, let’s get all the acronyms out of the...
How Maintenance Managers Can Maximize Asset Performance with Automation and Control System Tools
This guest blog post was written by Bryan Christiansen, founder and CEO at Limble CMMS. Limble is a mobile first, modern computerized maintenance management system application, designed to help managers organize, automate and streamline their maintenance operations....
AutoQuiz: Which Signal Type Indicates Direction and Velocity in a Motion Control Application?
IIoT Solves Problems Previously Considered Unsolvable
How Long Before Watson Comes to Engineering?
AutoQuiz: What Type of Switch Is Designed to Detect the End of Travel of a Valve?
What Are the Opportunities for Nonlinear Control in Process Industry Applications?
Proportional Integral Estimator-Based Clock Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks [technical]
AutoQuiz: What Is the Benefit of Industrial RFID Tags Over Barcode Systems?
How Does Heat Transfer Affect Operation of Your Natural Gas or Crude Oil Pipeline?
Webinar Recording: Future-Proof Your Automation Solutions with Standards-Based Design
AutoQuiz: When Should Operating Instructions Be Developed for an Industrial Process?
OPC UA and IEC 61131-3: The Integration of Control and the HMI
Artificial Intelligence-Based Improved Classification of Two-Phase Flow Patterns [technical]
AutoQuiz: Cold Junction Compensation Is Required for Which Type of Temperature Measurement Device?
How to Prevent Cavitation in Butterfly Control Valves
Four Quick Tips for Making Smart, Strategic Decisions at Your Industrial Plant or Facility
AutoQuiz: What Security Property Is Affected If a Hacker Intercepts and Changes Set Point Data?
New Method for Tuning PID Controllers Using a Symmetric Send-On-Delta Sampling Strategy [technical]
How to Implement Effective Safety Instrumented Systems for Process Automation Applications
AutoQuiz: What Is a Schematic Representation of a Complete Hydraulic, Electric, Magnetic, or Pneumatic Circuit Called?
What Is the Connection Between All of the Inputs and the Output of an Industrial Process?