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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.

Ask the Automation Pros: How Is Process Control Different from Other Industrial Control Disciplines?

The following discussion is part of an occasional series, “Ask the Automation Pros,” authored by Gre...
Greg McMillan Sep 9, 2025 7:00:00 AM

Ask the Automation Pros: Useful Books for Process Control

The following discussion is part of an occasional series, “Ask the Automation Pros,” authored by Gre...
Greg McMillan Jul 25, 2025 1:00:00 PM

Ask the Automation Pros: The Past and Future of Process Control

The following discussion is part of an occasional series, “Ask the Automation Pros,” authored by Gre...
Greg McMillan May 27, 2025 11:00:01 AM

Ask the Automation Pros: How Do You Specify the Best Control Valve Characteristics?

The following discussion is part of an occasional series, “Ask the Automation Pros,” authored by Gre...
Greg McMillan Mar 28, 2025 7:00:00 AM

Achieving Operational Excellence in Hydrocarbon Processing

Introduction In the last 40 years, process control and automation systems in the hydrocarbon process...
Vikas Deshmukh Jun 11, 2021 5:30:00 AM

How New Technology Is Enabling Wider Application of Wireless Valve Control

It took many years, but wireless technology has become accepted by skeptical instrument engineers wo...
Shuji Yamamoto Feb 26, 2020 6:42:04 AM

How to Implement Secure, Remote Access to an Industrial Automation System

Remote access to local programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), and o...
Jonathan Griffith Feb 24, 2020 7:42:39 AM

How to Reduce Control Valve Noise

This post was authored by Hans D. Baumann, Ph.D., PE, author of Fluid Mechanics of Control Valves: H...
Hans D. Baumann Feb 17, 2020 7:42:53 AM

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