AutoQuiz: How Are the Maintainability and Maintenance of Automation Systems Related?
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 to Manage Control Valve Response Issues in the Field
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...
How to Prevent Impulse Line Blockages Due to Temperature Variability
This post was authored by Asad Shaikh, an instrumentation and control engineer with Worley. In the glass manufacturing industry, raw materials are heated to high temperatures until they turn into liquid. At this stage the molten glass is still very viscous, but can be...
AutoQuiz: How to Use the Parity System to Detect Data Transmission Errors
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...
My Journey on a ‘Yellow Brick’ Path to Becoming an ISA Fellow
This guest blog post is part of a series written by Edward J. Farmer, PE, ISA Fellow 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...
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Embedded Intelligent Adaptive PID Controller for an Electromechanical System [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 study, an intelligent adaptive controller approach using the interval type-2 fuzzy neural...
AutoQuiz: What Electrical Event Can Occur With a 24 VDC Open-Collector Output Sinking Configuration?
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 Visual Data Analytics Software Improves Natural Gas Well Site Efficiency and Reliability
This post was authored by Andy Young, a research reactor controls engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Previously he was the director of operations at Pioneer Energy. Pioneer Energy in Lakewood, Colo., is a service provider and original equipment...
Primer: Essential Guide to Industrial Wireless Network Configuration and Layout Options
This post was authored by Shuji Yamamoto, wireless promotion manager in Yokogawa’s New Field Development Center One of the first steps when creating a new wireless instrumentation network using ISA100 Wireless, or any other industrial wireless network, is a site...
AutoQuiz: What Device Is Used to Convert an Analog Signal From a Transmitter to the Signal Required by a Digital Controller?
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...
The Ball Is in Your Court Now
This post is authored by Paul Gruhn, president of ISA 2019. I have used this blog every month to inform you of the various resources and activities going on within the society that are available to benefit you and your employer. Our standards, books, journals,...
Will Blockchain Technology Disrupt the Industrial Control System World?
This post was authored by Steve Mustard, an industrial control system and cybersecurity consultant, and author of the ISA book Mission Critical Operations Primer, and Mark Davison, is a software engineer with more than 30 years of experience. Currently he is an...
Why Most Modern Process Plants Fail to Take Full Advantage of Automation System Capabilities
This guest blog post was written by Paul Darnbrough, P.E., CAP, principal at ControlsPR and previously with the Automation Solutions Group at MAVERICK Technologies, a Rockwell Automation company. The way we have started automobiles through the years is a...
AutoQuiz: What Are the NPV and IRR Methods for Evaluating Industrial Automation System Capital Investments?
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 to Use Industrial Simulation to Increase Learning and Innovation
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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New Method for Estimating State of Charge of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles [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: This paper presents a state of charge (SOC) estimation method based on fractional order sliding mode...
AutoQuiz: What Is the Logical Analysis Troubleshooting Method 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 Control Systems Technician (CCST) program. Certified Control System Technicians calibrate, document, troubleshoot, and...
Energy in Fluid Mechanics: How to Ensure Physical Line and Operating Data Are Consistent
This guest blog post is part of a series written by Edward J. Farmer, PE, ISA Fellow and author of the new 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...
How Standards and New Technology Enable Humans and Robots to Work Safely Together
This post was written by Carole Franklin, is the director of standards development for the Robotic Industries Association. Not many years ago, the idea of collaborative robotics – with a robot and human worker sharing an active workspace – was met by strong...
AutoQuiz: What Should an Engineer Include in a Final Automation Project Report to Senior Management?
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 to Select a Platform to Implement a Batch Automation Solution
This post was written by John Parraga, a process specialist with ECS Solutions. Making a platform selection to implement a batch automation solution should start with the evaluation of the end user's short- and long-term requirements. Unfortunately, end users...
Industry 4.0 Concepts for Discrete Manufacturing Applied to Process Automation
This article was written by Bill Lydon, automation industry authority, journalist and former chief editor at InTech magazine. Industry 4.0 initially focused on discrete manufacturing, and now there is a growing focus on applying Industry 4.0 concepts to...
AutoQuiz: What Is the Purpose of an Instrument Location Plan?
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...
The Positive Impact of the 2019 ISA Annual Leadership Conference
This post is authored by Paul Gruhn, president of ISA 2019. The 2019 ISA annual leadership conference was our largest annual leader conference in many years. For example, there were 130 leaders registered for the event in 2014. This year there were 209. What might be...
Drones in Industrial Automation: Vital Mobile Platforms for Sensor Delivery
This post was written by Peter Fuhr, PhD, Marissa Morales-Rodriguez, PhD, Sterling Rooke, PhD, and Penny Chen, PhD. Factories, refineries, utilities (water/wastewater, electric), and related industrial sites are complex systems and structures with...
How to Solve the Biggest Maintenance Challenges in the Oil & Gas Industry
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: What Is the Significance of the Fieldbus Intrinsic Safety Concept?
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...
AutoQuiz: How Are the Maintainability and Maintenance of Automation Systems Related?
How to Manage Control Valve Response Issues in the Field
How to Prevent Impulse Line Blockages Due to Temperature Variability
AutoQuiz: How to Use the Parity System to Detect Data Transmission Errors
My Journey on a ‘Yellow Brick’ Path to Becoming an ISA Fellow
Embedded Intelligent Adaptive PID Controller for an Electromechanical System [technical]
AutoQuiz: What Electrical Event Can Occur With a 24 VDC Open-Collector Output Sinking Configuration?
How Visual Data Analytics Software Improves Natural Gas Well Site Efficiency and Reliability
Primer: Essential Guide to Industrial Wireless Network Configuration and Layout Options
AutoQuiz: What Device Is Used to Convert an Analog Signal From a Transmitter to the Signal Required by a Digital Controller?