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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.

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How to Select the Best Industrial Controller: MPC, Fuzzy Logic, or PID?

The following discussion is part of an occasional series, "Ask the Automation Pros," authored by Gre...
Greg McMillan Nov 28, 2011 7:09:54 PM

Knowing Your Blind Spots with Your Facility or Plant Manager

This post was authored by Steve Prettyman, strategic sourcing manager at Dow.
Contributing Authors Nov 28, 2011 5:40:34 PM

How Much Is Plant or Facility Downtime Costing You?

This article was written by Dave Crumrine and Doug Post, of Interstates.
Contributing Authors Nov 22, 2011 1:29:43 PM

Andy Chatha Awarded ISA Honorary Membership

The 2011 Annual ISA Honors and Awards Gala was held on 17 October in Mobile, Alabama. The Honors and...
Contributing Authors Nov 22, 2011 11:18:39 AM

Robust PID Tuning Strategy for Uncertain Plants Based on the Kharitonov Theorem

This is from a series of articles reprinted from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions ...
ISA Transactions Nov 15, 2011 9:39:36 AM

New Enterprise-Control System Integration Standard Issued for Review/Voting

A new draft standard in the widely used ISA95 series has been issued for ISA95 committee balloting, ...
Contributing Authors Nov 14, 2011 6:38:58 PM

Energy Harvesting: Practical Reality for Wireless Sensing

This post was authored by Roy Freeland, president of Perpetuum Ltd and past co-chair of the ISA100.1...
Contributing Authors Nov 9, 2011 1:48:49 PM

ISA12's Production Level Elevated following Meetings

The ISA12 Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Locations meetings in Cape Cod last month culminated in...
Contributing Authors Nov 8, 2011 7:43:16 PM

AD Converters Quiz: convert an analog signal to a digital one

AD Converters are necessary to convert an analog signal to a digital one that our computers can unde...
Mark Weisner Nov 3, 2011 5:39:56 PM

Developing Manufacturing Skills for Economic Growth

This article was written by Emily Stover DeRocco, former president of The Manufacturing Institute.
Contributing Authors Oct 25, 2011 1:32:28 PM

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