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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.

Design Tips to Create a More Effective HMI

This post was written by Chip McDaniel of AutomationDirect.
Contributing Authors May 11, 2016 10:42:37 AM

What Is Easy and What Is Hard to Automate with Robotics?

Every time I have a meeting with a customer, I am always surprised about all the ideas they have abo...
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette May 9, 2016 10:42:42 AM

How to Choose the Right Industrial Control System

This guest blog post was written by Tao Shen, a global product manager with Honeywell Process Soluti...
Contributing Authors May 4, 2016 10:42:05 AM

Coordinated MIMO Control Design for a Power Plant

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to...
ISA Transactions Apr 18, 2016 10:42:42 AM

How to Avoid the 12 Common Pitfalls of RFID for Asset Tracking

This post was written by Steve Loyal, business development manager at HARTING, Inc. of North America...
Contributing Authors Mar 2, 2016 10:42:16 AM

How to Measure pH of Ultrapure Water in Power Industry Applications

This post was authored by Fred Kohlmann, Midwest business manager for analytical products with Endre...
Contributing Authors Feb 22, 2016 10:42:09 AM

Multi-Objective Control of Nonlinear Boiler-Turbine Dynamics

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to...
ISA Transactions Feb 10, 2016 10:42:07 AM

AutoQuiz: What Type of Circuit Break Protection Should Be Used for Motor Control?

AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's social media community manager.
Joel Don Jan 15, 2016 9:00:57 AM

ISA-88 Standard Marries Plant-Floor Automation with MES Supervision

This guest blog post was written by Rick Slaugenhaupt, a senior engineer for MAVERICK Technologies, ...
Contributing Authors Jan 4, 2016 10:42:52 AM

How Do You Measure Control System Performance?

The following discussion is part of an occasional series, "Ask the Automation Pros," authored by Gre...
Greg McMillan Dec 2, 2015 10:42:27 AM

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