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ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, has found wide use and success in improving the development, design, installation and management of alarm systems across the process industry sectors. This article was originally published in InTech's July/August issue.

Check out some of ISA Young Professionals Committee's Fireside Chats from earlier this year!

Responding to the global demand for various automation products, Fibox Enclosures are waving their standard machining MOQ's for their made-to-order PICCOLO series push-button controller boxes.

Siemens is offering the new Sinumerik MC controller, a universal, open, industrial PC-based CNC system.

Engineers & planners benefit from digital component information through new PARTS4CAD integration in Megatech CAD systems.

About two-thirds of manufacturers surveyed expect overall economic conditions in the U.S. to improve over the next 12 months.

New platform will provide on-demand training programs and live training events to window covering professionals at their own pace, from any location.

Anvl announced that their Connected Worker platform has surpassed the milestone of 10 million data points collected from frontline workers and supervisors.

2020 was an unprecedented year for all companies, and the challenges continue. Here we identify and address the most pressing business challenges that continue to force industrial automation professionals to respond.

Azbil Corporation announced that it will launch the digital mass flow controller model F4Q on Aug. 18. The new controller features high-speed response and high accuracy, providing at-a-glance understanding of control status.

Chevron Australia and Aker Solutions chose ABB to supply the electrical power system from shore and subsea long step-out to Jansz-Io field, part of the Chevron-operated Gorgon natural gas project.

Joseph S. Alford, PhD, an ISA Fellow and long-time contributing expert on ISA18, has been honored with a 2021 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Purdue University’s College of Engineering, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. This article was originally published in InTech's July/August issue.

The TIMA logistic robot allows you to optimize warehouse logistics and increase the speed and quality of cargo handling.

The IPC-CFX (Connected Factory Exchange) is a global standard to simplify and standardize M2M (machine-to-machine) and machine-to-MES communication for effective data communication between devices in a factory line.

Accenture’s confirmation that it was the target of LockBit 2.0 made global headlines, but the company is only the latest in what has now become a long list of cyberattack victims. According to data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, around 170 significant cyber incidents involving government agencies, defense organizations, and high-tech companies were recorded since August 2020.

More than 100,000 employees in the chemical processing and oil and gas sectors lost their jobs in 2020, and U.S.-based companies were already looking at a shortfall of at least 40,000 skilled positions by 2025. The knowledge drain and the related skills gap open up an opportunity to make digital solutions a key part of future operations.

Version 2.90 of the OPC UA .NET Standard Toolkits adds the Pub/Sub MQTT protocol to the SDK, support for UMATI NodeSet files, NodesSet2 XML handling, and performance improvements for your next OPC UA development project.

The demand for USB ports has increased exponentially due to the sheer number of these peripheral devices and gadgets, each of which requires the ubiquitous USB ports for communication and connection.

OleumTech, a leading industrial automation and IoT solutions provider, today announced the launch of an Electromagnetic Flow Meter as another addition to its fast-growing H Series hardwired process instrumentation line.