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Featured Articles
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Optimizing the Chlor-Alkali Process: The Critical Role of pH, ORP, and Conductivity Control
This article details the vital role of inline process analytics in chlor-alkali production. Precise control of pH, ORP, and conductivity across brine purification, membrane electrolysis, recycling, and wastewater optimizes chemical dosing, protects equipment, and ensures safe, efficient performance. -
Hilscher netRAPID 90IC: Bridging Industrial Communication’s Past, Present, and Secure Future
Hilscher’s netRAPID 90IC combines multiprotocol industrial communication, IIoT connectivity and integrated security in a compact 18 × 45 mm plug-in module. Its replaceable design simplifies integration and servicing for field devices. -
Human-In-The-Loop Industrial AI: Why Human Expertise Still Matters
Human-in-the-loop AI helps industrial organizations amplify human expertise, preserve institutional knowledge, and make smarter decisions.
Featured Products
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Multi-Turn Sensor: Easy-to-Integrate Analog Output
Now available: New MZ1 Multi-Turn Rotary Angle Sensor with a straightforward analog output option, Counts to 44-turns in a compact 22 mm package -
Reliable Ethernet for Harsh Environments
Rugged DataTuff® cables deliver reliable connectivity through abrasion, chemicals, moisture and temperature extremes. -
Simplify Automation Across Your Operation
Need to automate without adding unnecessary complexity? ARIA offers a configurable robot cell for a variety of applications. -
One License. Unlimited Tags, Clients & Devices.
Lost in licensing math? Ignition has no per-client & per-tag costs. No device cap. No logging out for others to log in. Just one flat rate. -
SICK sensingCam SEC200 for Inspection & Tracking
Capture image-based inspection and identification in one device. The SICK sensingCam SEC200 combines barcode reading, optical character verification, feature inspection, and flexible setup to improve traceability and quality control across production and logistics.
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Ask the Automation Pros
This long-running series of discussions, curated by 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient Greg McMillan, gathers responses from ISA subject-matter experts on technical topics important to industrial automation professionals, academics and students.
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ISA News and Insights
Stay up-to-date with the latest news and insights from the International Society of Automation (ISA).
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ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance
The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA) is a collaborative forum to advance OT cybersecurity awareness, education, readiness, standardization and knowledge sharing. ISAGCA’s global ecosystem includes leaders such as Chevron, GSK, Trane Technologies, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, Rockwell Automation and Fortinet, among others. For more information, visit www.isagca.org.
Featured White Papers
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Acoustic Confidence: The Real Commissioning Requirement for Hydrogen-Blend Ultrasonic Flowmeters
In hydrogen-blend ultrasonic metering, the flow equation may remain valid, but acoustic confidence becomes the real commissioning requirement. -
From Compliance to Capability: A Practical SBOM Path for Industrial Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
For industrial small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the real challenge is not generating a software bill of materials (SBOM) once but maintaining trustworthy software composition data that supports vulnerability decisions throughout the product lifecycle. -
A Unified Approach to OT Cybersecurity
Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition supports the harmonization of cybersecurity standards for industrial and operational technology (OT) systems.
Automation and Control
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OT Security’s Sleep Debt Is a Process Safety Problem
Industrial security teams are absorbing alert loads that process engineers would never accept for operators, and the cost shows up in sleep and judgment before it shows up in incidents. -
From Real-Time Visibility to Continuous Improvement in Food Manufacturing
Real-time visibility is only the first step toward operational excellence in food manufacturing. By connecting production data with assigned actions, corrective workflows and measurable results, intelligent operations platforms help manufacturers close the loop between identifying problems, resolving them and driving continuous improvement. -
Don’t Migrate the Mess: A Six-Phase Framework for Legacy DCS Modernization
This approach separates two questions that a like-for-like migration combines: What can the new platform support, and what configuration should be implemented once current systems are validated? -
Eliminating Manual Inspection in Consumer Goods Manufacturing with Intelligent Vision Systems
How AI-enabled vision technology helps manufacturers improve quality and address labor challenges.
Industrial & OT Cybersecurity
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When Cyberattacks Reach Healthcare’s Operational Technology
For healthcare organizations, protecting operational technology is essential to protecting patient care by maintaining the integrity and safety of systems that support essential medical services. -
Defining Cyber Risk in OT: A Practical ISA/IEC 62443-Aligned Approach
OT cyber risks are often rated before being defined. A practical method builds the risk scenario first (zone, asset, criticality, threat source, threat level, threat action, and vulnerability) before assessing likelihood and consequence. -
Growing Attention to Water Security Underscores the Value of Risk-Based Cybersecurity and Global Standards
Cyberattacks have exposed weaknesses in internet connectivity for operations and remote access at water and wastewater facilities that are being addressed in national and global cybersecurity standards. -
Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd. Joins ISASecure to Strengthen Adoption of ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Standards
The company, which offers consultancy services across the UK and Australia, has officially joined ISASecure®, the globally recognized certification program that validates conformance to the ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards for industrial automation and control systems cybersecurity.
Industrial Safety
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OT Security’s Sleep Debt Is a Process Safety Problem
Industrial security teams are absorbing alert loads that process engineers would never accept for operators, and the cost shows up in sleep and judgment before it shows up in incidents. -
Mouser Stocks Wide Selection of Industrial Automation Solutions from Banner Engineering
Mouser expands its offerings to provide thousands of Banner products that are critical to designing, upfitting, optimizing, and maintaining smart automation facilities. -
A Completed Safety Course Is Not an Emergency Response Role
Training completion does not equate to readiness for a specific emergency. Actions required during hazardous material releases must be detailed, responsibilities defined, and competence verified. -
ISA Automation Summit & Expo 2026 Draws Strong Turnout and Positive Reviews
Join us in Nashville next year for ASE 2027. Reserve 18-19 October on your calendar for two days of fresh ideas, practical insights, and connections that move the industry forward.
Digital Transformation
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AI-enabled iChain Helps Improve Delivery Accuracy by 30%
Because iChain was shaped inside one of Lenovo’s most complex operating environments, the customer-ready solution carries forward more than a technical design. It reflects practical lessons about integrating AI with established supply chain systems. -
Software Toolbox Turns 30: From Connecting Industrial Systems to Putting AI to Work for Manufacturers
The future is here: AI applications that let engineers and technicians use natural language to query industrial data, troubleshoot technical issues, and optimize automation processes. -
From Real-Time Visibility to Continuous Improvement in Food Manufacturing
Real-time visibility is only the first step toward operational excellence in food manufacturing. By connecting production data with assigned actions, corrective workflows and measurable results, intelligent operations platforms help manufacturers close the loop between identifying problems, resolving them and driving continuous improvement. -
Don’t Migrate the Mess: A Six-Phase Framework for Legacy DCS Modernization
This approach separates two questions that a like-for-like migration combines: What can the new platform support, and what configuration should be implemented once current systems are validated?
Industrial Data & Connectivity
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Software Toolbox Turns 30: From Connecting Industrial Systems to Putting AI to Work for Manufacturers
The future is here: AI applications that let engineers and technicians use natural language to query industrial data, troubleshoot technical issues, and optimize automation processes. -
From Real-Time Visibility to Continuous Improvement in Food Manufacturing
Real-time visibility is only the first step toward operational excellence in food manufacturing. By connecting production data with assigned actions, corrective workflows and measurable results, intelligent operations platforms help manufacturers close the loop between identifying problems, resolving them and driving continuous improvement. -
How to Modernize 4-20mA Temperature Loops with Modern Digital Plant Architectures
Go into the instrumentation cabinets of almost any process plant built before the 2000s and you'll find that most of it still works exactly as it did thirty or forty years ago. So, the question isn't really whether that old infrastructure still does its job. It's whether it can keep up with what plants are now being asked to do with their data. -
Hilscher netRAPID 90IC: Bridging Industrial Communication’s Past, Present, and Secure Future
Hilscher’s netRAPID 90IC combines multiprotocol industrial communication, IIoT connectivity and integrated security in a compact 18 × 45 mm plug-in module. Its replaceable design simplifies integration and servicing for field devices.
Operations Management
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OT Security’s Sleep Debt Is a Process Safety Problem
Industrial security teams are absorbing alert loads that process engineers would never accept for operators, and the cost shows up in sleep and judgment before it shows up in incidents. -
AI-enabled iChain Helps Improve Delivery Accuracy by 30%
Because iChain was shaped inside one of Lenovo’s most complex operating environments, the customer-ready solution carries forward more than a technical design. It reflects practical lessons about integrating AI with established supply chain systems. -
Don’t Migrate the Mess: A Six-Phase Framework for Legacy DCS Modernization
This approach separates two questions that a like-for-like migration combines: What can the new platform support, and what configuration should be implemented once current systems are validated? -
When Cyberattacks Reach Healthcare’s Operational Technology
For healthcare organizations, protecting operational technology is essential to protecting patient care by maintaining the integrity and safety of systems that support essential medical services.