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ISA Automation Week Portal: Highlights, Articles, News & Products
ISA Automation Week Portal
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for ISA Automation Week. ISA Automation Week is an extensive technical conference and supplier exhibition. It serves as the premier annual gathering of process and discrete automation and control professionals to network and benefit from their collective experience and expertise. This portals covers highlights, reviews, articles, news and products from the event. Learn more about our portals.
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Articles
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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors
ISA would like to extend a special Thank You to Our Sponsors for their support of ISA Automation Week, the organization and the global automation community. |
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ISA Automation Week's opening day a success
ISA Automation Week 2011 leaped into action Tuesday morning with an information-packed keynote address by automation legend, Charles Cutler. Following Cutler, eight tracks of technical sessions launched for approximately 300 conference attendees in Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center in Mobile, Ala. |
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The perfect husband
Just before the Tuesday morning keynote speech at ISA Automation Week, Greg McMillian spoke about the ISA Mentor program, the demand for automation engineers and the top ten reasons why an automation engineer makes a perfect spouse. |
White Papers
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Safety, security: How they differ, where they are the same
Track: Safety & Security Safety & Security technical session at ISA Automation Week discussed the similarities and differences between safety and security and how we could create similar levels for security like we have safety integrity levels (SILs) for the safety industry. |
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Utilize all data from wireless, smart instrumentation
Track: Wireless Technology and Applications This ISA Automation Week technical session illustrated that today there is a great deal to be gained by deploying asset management, and the technology is now readily available to support these applications including wireless technology. |
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Understanding existing levels of threat
Track: Safety & Security An overview of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and how it interacts with the private sector kicked off one technical session on safety and security at ISA Automation Week. Dan Bernett outlined the work of the department and in particular the Critical Sector Security Program (CSSP). |
Resources & Literature
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#ISAutowk - the highway to the world
This year's ISA Automation Week has a large screen onsite for Twitter showing all the tweets being sent by attendees and participants in the proceedings. |
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Navigate your way through ISA Automation Week with PathFinder
Navigate your way through the dozens of conference options with PathFinder. PathFinder assists you in selecting your own unique combination of sessions—a conference "path"—that shapes a learning experience suited to your individual job function and professional goals. |
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Join the Twitter conversation at ISA Automation Week with #isautowk
Share your ISA Automation Week 2011 experiences with other attendees and to the rest of the world via Twitter. During ISA Automation Week 2011, a Twitter feed will be displayed on the concourse by the technical session rooms. Learn how to join the conversation. |
Training News
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San Jacinto College to offer ISA instrumentation training
- 02/22/12 ISA will provide local-area students with access to ISA’s instrumentation curriculum at San Jacinto College. |
Training & Seminars
Product Announcements
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Yokogawa offers new model of data acquisition, display station
- 10/19/11
Equipped with a new touch screen operator interface, the Yokogawa DXAdvanced Touch is a new model series of the DXAdvanced R4 data acquisition and display stations. The pressure-sensitive touch screen gives users a faster and more efficient way to navigate the display screens and normal operating modes of the unit. |
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LUDECA introduces wind turbine vibration analyzer
- 10/19/11
VIBXPERT II is the latest addition to the PRUEFTECHNIK family of portable route-based vibration data collectors that combines the advantages of a rapid processor with a brilliant energy-efficient color VGA display. |
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Rockwell Automation increases customers' efficiency, productivity with PlantPAx
PlantPAx combines the plant-wide control technologies and scalability of Integrated Architecture with all the core capabilities expected in a DCS. |
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Company & Organization News
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Daily drawing draws crowd to ISA Bookstore
Each day at ISA Automation Week, there is a drawing at the busy ISA Bookstore booth for a Kindle. |
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Thursday's Question of the Day
In your opinion, what is the most important automation technology today? |
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Review of IEEE 802 standard developments from an ISA100 perspective
IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (IEEE 802) has been developing wireless standards since the late 1980s, and they are still going strong. In the past, some of these developments, especially 802.11 and 802.15, have had a significant impact on industrial wireless systems. |
Event News
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Mardi Gras Reception - Celebrating FIRST
Free to attendees and suppliers, our Wednesday evening Mardi Gras Reception—Celebrating FIRST® at ISA Automation Week was all about fun as we networked in the birthplace of the original Mardi Gras. The event featured a prize ceremony and guest appearance by NASCAR driver Jennifer Jo Cobb. |
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What's happening around town? Thursday, 20 October
Wow, last day already! If you are spending the evening here in Mobile, Ala., tonight might be the night to wind down, take in some culture, or simply enjoy a nice dinner in the company of old—or new—friends. Or you can finish your stay in Mobile with a big bang by taking in some live music. Perhaps you will find yourself at one of these places tonight. |
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Steel plant tour receives glowing reviews from participants
One of the opening events at ISA Automation Week 2011 was a plant tour of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA in Calvert, Ala., about 45 minutes outside of Mobile. Approximately 60 conference attendees took part in the tour, which allowed them inside the hot strip mill. |