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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.

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

AutoQuiz: Can You Identify the P&ID Symbol?

AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's community manager.
Joel Don Feb 9, 2018 9:00:01 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

Connectivity, Productivity and Efficiency Benefits of IIoT Depend on Integrated Cybersecurity

This article was written by Bill Lydon, automation industry authority, journalist and former chief e...
Contributing Authors Jan 31, 2018 10:42:37 AM

Managing the Cybersecurity Threat to Hazardous Process Plants

This guest blog post was written by Edward M. Marszal, president and CEO of Kenexis. He is the co-au...
Contributing Authors Jan 29, 2018 10:42:23 AM

AutoQuiz: Line Symbol Identification

AutoQuiz is edited by Joel Don, ISA's community manager.
Joel Don Jan 26, 2018 9:00:42 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

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