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The Machines Are Talking. Factories Aren’t Listening.
Factories generate enormous quantities of sensor data, yet most of it is never translated into timely operational decisions, leaving significant production capacity unrealized. The next industrial advantage will belong to companies and countries that build infrastructure capable of interpreting this data in real time and using it to improve factory operations. -
Your Digital Plant Is Only as Strong as Its Data Foundation
Advanced digital tools can optimize performance and reduce costs, but only when based on accurate, connected data. This article discusses how data can be captured and structured to facilitate all the promises of a digitally integrated facility. -
Ask the Automation Pros: How Can We Enhance Control System Reliability?
In the latest edition of the Ask the Automation Pros column, the pros share strategies for enhancing control system reliability.
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Build Smarter, More Reliable Control Systems
Struggling with downtime, data complexity or scalability? The MELSEC iQ-R PLC delivers performance, diagnostics and reliability. -
Shaping Industrial Intelligence
As factories become more connected and software-defined, Factory Tomorrow Season 6 explores the technologies driving industrial automation, AI-ready infrastructure and smarter manufacturing. -
Tune In to Tech’s Hottest Topics
Inductive Automation’s Travis Cox and Thomas Burke talk with industry innovators about AI, enterprise SCADA, IT/OT convergence, MQTT, OPC UA and more on this industrial automation podcast. -
One Sensor. Multiple Modes. More Flexibility.
One sensor, multiple operating modes. SICK MultiMode devices simplify setup, boost flexibility and adapt to changing applications. -
The Next Evolution in Process Control Is Here
DeltaV™ version 16.LTS Distributed Control System (DCS) builds on decades of field-proven innovation to deliver the most robust and reliable release yet. -
Introducing the HiveMQ Industrial Data Platform
When operational data is scattered, delayed or stripped of context, teams lack the foundation needed for trusted intelligence and governed action. HiveMQ helps connect, contextualize, analyze and act on real-time industrial data. -
Power CAD, Simulation & Digital Twins
Accelerate simulation, CAD, and digital twin workflows with the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition. Get powerful AI-enhanced performance, advanced visualization, and enterprise-ready capabilities for demanding projects.
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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 global consortium collaborating to advance OT cybersecurity awareness, education, readiness, standardization and knowledge sharing, based on the ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards.
Automation and Control
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Precision Motion with Brother Servo Gearboxes
Compact, low-backlash servo gearboxes built to deliver precise motion, high torque density, and reliable automation performance. -
Building Resilient and Secure Industrial Automation Systems
This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle. -
Connect Operations, Data, and Insights with GENESIS
Stop struggling with disconnected data. GENESIS unifies SCADA, visualization, historian, and analytics in one platform. -
ISA Publishes Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment.
Industrial & OT Cybersecurity
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Building Resilient and Secure Industrial Automation Systems
This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle. -
DeNexus Joins ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance to Facilitate Broad Adoption of OT Cybersecurity Standards
The ISA/IEC 62443 framework, along with DeNexus’ expertise, will enable industries to assess, quantify and assign a cost to risk. -
ISA Publishes Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment. -
The Cyber Resilience Act: Compliance Starts with Product Security, Not Documentation
Implementing the CRA is an opportunity to achieve higher levels of product security maturity by actively anticipating and preparing to address security issues that may arise throughout a product’s lifecycle.
Industrial Safety
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Precision Motion with Brother Servo Gearboxes
Compact, low-backlash servo gearboxes built to deliver precise motion, high torque density, and reliable automation performance. -
Building Resilient and Secure Industrial Automation Systems
This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle. -
ISA Publishes Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment. -
Emerson to Automate Europe’s First Greenfield Facility Dedicated to Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Emerson is to automate a production facility that will help the Netherlands meet the EU sustainable aviation fuel mandate.
Digital Transformation
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Precision Motion with Brother Servo Gearboxes
Compact, low-backlash servo gearboxes built to deliver precise motion, high torque density, and reliable automation performance. -
Building Resilient and Secure Industrial Automation Systems
This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle. -
The High Cost of Dirty Data in Wastewater Automation
Level data from unreliable field instrumentation can turn an expensive automation investment into an operational liability. The solution is radar. -
The Machines Are Talking. Factories Aren’t Listening.
Factories generate enormous quantities of sensor data, yet most of it is never translated into timely operational decisions, leaving significant production capacity unrealized. The next industrial advantage will belong to companies and countries that build infrastructure capable of interpreting this data in real time and using it to improve factory operations.
Industrial Data & Connectivity
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Building Resilient and Secure Industrial Automation Systems
This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle. -
ISA Publishes Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment. -
The Machines Are Talking. Factories Aren’t Listening.
Factories generate enormous quantities of sensor data, yet most of it is never translated into timely operational decisions, leaving significant production capacity unrealized. The next industrial advantage will belong to companies and countries that build infrastructure capable of interpreting this data in real time and using it to improve factory operations. -
Your Digital Plant Is Only as Strong as Its Data Foundation
Advanced digital tools can optimize performance and reduce costs, but only when based on accurate, connected data. This article discusses how data can be captured and structured to facilitate all the promises of a digitally integrated facility.
Operations Management
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Precision Motion with Brother Servo Gearboxes
Compact, low-backlash servo gearboxes built to deliver precise motion, high torque density, and reliable automation performance. -
Building Resilient and Secure Industrial Automation Systems
This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle. -
Connect Operations, Data, and Insights with GENESIS
Stop struggling with disconnected data. GENESIS unifies SCADA, visualization, historian, and analytics in one platform. -
DeNexus Joins ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance to Facilitate Broad Adoption of OT Cybersecurity Standards
The ISA/IEC 62443 framework, along with DeNexus’ expertise, will enable industries to assess, quantify and assign a cost to risk.
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