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How Connected Buildings and Power Grids Make Cities 'Smart'
Smart cities are not just about installing digital interfaces in traditional infrastructure. They use technology and data to help us make better decisions & deliver a better quality of life. -
AutoQuiz: What Are Common Terms Used to Quantify Dangerous Industrial Failures?
Spurious trips and nuisance trips are indicative of “safe” failure modes, not “dangerous” failures. -
How Often Do Measurements Need to Be Calibrated?
The ISA recommended practice is not on the process of calibration but on a calibration management system -
Book Excerpt + Q&A: Situation Management for Process Control
Situation management is the competency, ability, and willingness of the human operator to properly and successfully manage the enterprise or activity under his or her charge. -
AutoQuiz: How to Measure the Resistance in a Circuit
Resistance is an electrical quantity that measures how a device or material reduces the electric current flow through it. -
Decentralized Control Strategy vs MPC Industrial Methanol Distillation
The authors developed a novel, robust practical control structure to regulate an industrial methanol distillation column. -
How Long Does It Take to Detect a Leak on an Oil or Gas Pipeline?
In pipeline leak detection, If we know upstream and downstream pressure and flow, we can make assumptions about what is happening on that piece of pipe. -
AutoQuiz: How to Calculate Uptime for an Automation System
The most important measure for production equipment support is operational availability, or “uptime.” -
Webinar Recording: Uncertainty in Calibration
Watch this webinar to understand how you can use statistics in measurement. -
Process Plants Need New Approaches to Leverage Actionable Information From Big Data
Turning data into information requires process knowledge, but it should not require a high level of IT expertise and engagement. -
AutoQuiz: How to Troubleshoot a System Failure Due to a Bad Component
Troubleshooting is often an iterative process. If the proposed solution is not the correct one, further analysis and data collection are warranted. -
What Should a Plant Manager Do During the First 90 Days on the Job?
Learn five "must-do" activities that every new industrial plant manager should build into initial plans to ensure everything kicks off in the right direction. -
Raw Beginnings: The Evolution of Offshore Oil Industry Pipeline Safety
A lot of insight and work goes into oil industry leak detection projects, and a lot of amazing things come out. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Purpose of a Markov Model Computation?
Systems that exhibit a Markov property are ones in which the future does not depend on the past. -
ISA Leaders to Validate and Advance Strategic Direction
ISA values your contribution to the Society and is always working with leaders to better improve our collective performance. -
Book Excerpt + Q&A: Security PHA Review for Consequence-Based Cybersecurity
In process industries, mechanical safeguards have been replaced with digital devices. Problem: They have created gr3eater risk from cyberattack. -
Fault Detection in the Feed Water Treatment Process for Boiler-Turbine Power Generation [technical]
Process faults may make the quality of feed water below its standard for boiler-turbine power generation, resulting in downtime and loss of production. -
AutoQuiz: Characteristics of a Loop Diagram
Instrument loop diagrams are very detailed depictions of an industrial control or process -
Webinar Recording: Calibration and Inspections in Hazardous Areas
This ISA webinar on calibration considerations in hazardous areas was presented by Cameron Kamrani, PE, PMP, LEED AP, Ned Espy, and Roy Tomalino of Beamex. -
AutoQuiz: Characteristics of a Fuzzy Logic Controller
A PI controller is tuned by adjusting gain or proportional band & integral time settings. Fuzzy logic controller is tuned by adjusting scale factors.
