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.

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

Using Social Media to Your Advantage

This post is a summary of a presentation Jon DiPietro, ISA leader, engineer and digital marketing ex...
Susan Colwell Oct 20, 2011 5:03:22 PM

Liptak to reveal automation irony in technical world

The automation profession’s big irony, according to consultant Bela Liptak, is this: While universit...
Contributing Authors Oct 18, 2011 2:15:28 PM

PID gain scheduling using fuzzy logic

This is from a series of articles reprinted from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions ...
ISA Transactions Oct 16, 2011 9:09:50 AM

IEC Product Properties Working Group Completes Two-Day Meeting at ISA

IEC SC65E Working Group 2 held a meeting at ISA in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on October...
Contributing Authors Oct 13, 2011 6:38:55 PM

Automation Week Keynoter talks real-time optimization

If real-time optimization has been around for the past 30 years, why aren’t more oil and chemical co...
Contributing Authors Oct 10, 2011 7:52:44 PM

A Little About Valves

What is Cv ?
Mark Weisner Oct 10, 2011 7:36:08 PM

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