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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.

Tuning the Model Predictive Control of a Crude Distillation Unit [Technical]

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to...
ISA Transactions Feb 21, 2018 10:42:37 AM

Design Principles for Complex Process Control

This guest blog post was written by Jean Vieille, an industrial system control expert who started hi...
Contributing Authors Feb 19, 2018 5:00:53 AM

DCS Upgrade: How to Reduce Stress During Execution

This post was authored by Sunny R. Desai, an engineer in the DCS/PLC/SCADA department at Reliance In...
Contributing Authors Feb 12, 2018 10:42:49 AM

What You Can Learn About Pipeline Leaks From Government Statistics

This guest blog post is part of a series written by Edward J. Farmer, PE, author of the new ISA book...
Edward J. Farmer Feb 7, 2018 10:42:04 AM

Plant-Wide Control Design Based on Steady-State Combined Indexes [Technical]

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to...
ISA Transactions Feb 5, 2018 10:42:36 AM

AutoQuiz: What Is PID in a Control Loop?

AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager.
Joel Don Feb 2, 2018 9:00:12 AM

Measuring Fuel Oil Viscosity in a Power Plant [technical]

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to...
ISA Transactions Jan 22, 2018 10:42:36 AM

Tuning of IMC-Based PID Controllers for Integrating Systems with Time Delay [Technical]

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to...
ISA Transactions Jan 17, 2018 11:42:47 AM

AutoQuiz: What Is an Industrial Process Variable?

AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's community manager.
Joel Don Dec 29, 2017 9:00:18 AM

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