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.
Bert Baeck, senior vice president of self service analytics at Software AG. Previously he was co-founder and chief executive officer of TrendMiner. His professional experience includes more than 10 years within big data and analytics and the manufacturing industry. Before he started TrendMiner, he was a process optimization engineer for Bayer MaterialScience (now called Covestro). Baeck is an engineer with a twist: an analytical, lateral thinker who has business savvy and a strong can-do mentality. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in microelectronics from the University of Ghent. His personal motto is, “Failure is not the worst outcome. Mediocrity is.”