Founded in 1945, the International Society of Automation is a leading, global, nonprofit organization that is setting the standard for automation by helping over 30,000 worldwide members and other professionals solve difficult technical problems, while enhancing their leadership and personal career capabilities. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, ISA develops standards; certifies industry professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and technical articles; and hosts conferences and exhibitions for automation professionals. ISA is the founding sponsor of the Automation Federation (www.automationfederation.org).
The Open Process Automation Forum is well underway defining the system requirements of the next-generation industrial control architecture, which will be based on Distributed ...
OPEN-SCS is solving how to seamlessly exchange serialization data between packaging lines by leveraging existing plant floor standards. The group promises that their work will...
The ISA101 committee expects to be able to publish the standard in the fourth quarter of this year, providing guidance that industry has been clamoring for.
Can your executives quantify the value of the automation technologies for which you are responsible? If you answered no, you—and the technologies you rely on—may be in danger ...
ERM improves communications about batch processing by taking ISA-88 recipe standards and extending them to the enterprise via ISA-95 material, equipment and personnel standards...
Maybe the talking is about over and the work can begin--with the Internet of Things, M2M, Pervasive Internet or (today's latest term) "Industrial Internet", that is.
Imagine a world without electrical standards, such as 110V at 60hz, or 220 at 50Hz, or a world where every phone had a different type of connection and required a different type...
With the aim of attracting end-users, vendors, system integrators, government agencies, and insurance companies, the ISA has established a new cybersecurity group focused on implementat...
A global partnership between Siemens and ISA will address the changing industrial security landscape through joint security expertise and stronger global standards awareness. ...
Turnarounds are not an everyday occurrence for continuous processes. To compensate for the lack of practice operators get, more plants are deploying software that can reduce the...
The International Society of Automation (ISA) and its Strategic Partner for Calibration, Beamex, Inc., announce the opening of attendee registration for Calibration Best Practices...
The International Society of Automation (ISA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) to deliver a web-based project...
The International Society of Automation (ISA) announced today those ISA members who have elevated to the distinguished membership grade of Fellow and the Celebrating Excellence...
The story of electronic batch records began as a way to streamline regulatory compliance. Now these records can also help users produce higher-quality batches and ensure optimal...
Continuous process industries are finding that automating the typically manual processes that fall outside of steady-state operations leads to safer, more consistent, more productive...
Getting your process alarms under control requires more than knocking down the bad actors. You need to document and rationalize—take the time needed to keep unwanted alarms from...
Bayer MaterialScience and Dow Chemical are on the leading edge of pending industry standards that promise to widen the appeal of procedure automation—a system design and programming...
At the Hilton Galveston Island resort, April 14-18, 2013, ISA will present its 58th Annual Analysis Division Symposium. This event offers professionals a chance to gain insight...
The strict segregation of safety systems and process control is just plain wrong these days. Automation suppliers have developed strategies for integrating what until now have...
Automation needs more women who can bring innovative ideas to the industry, contribute their intuitive skills and balance, and find different ways to solve many difficult problems...
With only 11 weeks before the first production trials, a systems integrator concurrently creates hardware designs and programming based on the ISA 88 Batch standard to support...
