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As winner of the 2020 ISA’s Standards Excellence Award, Donald Dunn was asked to reflect on his engineering career and the impact of standards.

This new standard for M12 hybrid SPE and power interfaces functions as a logical extension of IEC 63171-6.

Understand why you should care about quality and how digital QMS can improve document information flows, avoid recalls, and improve manufacturer profitability.

ODVA, OPC Foundation, PI and VDMA are developing a new interface standard for the acquisition of energy consumption data in industrial manufacturing based on OPC UA.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), global equipment suppliers, and other stakeholders announced the establishment of the Electric Energy OT Security Profile working group hosted by the International Society of Automation ISA99 standards committee.

Presentations will show how FieldComm Group collaborates with other standards development organizations to benefit end users.

The certification validates to customers and partners that Antaira has implemented and met the highest cybersecurity standards for its systems.

Dataforth’s Quality Management System “has been assessed and found complying with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015,” states Management Certification of North America (MCNA, an ANAB-accredited certification body).

Asset Guardian Solutions Limited has achieved the ISO/IEC 27001 standard for Information Security Management, a framework that will allow AGSL to take a holistic approach to secure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s information assets.

SEMI today announced the promotion of 20-year SEMI veteran Paul Trio to Director of the SEMI International Standards program, effective immediately.

Instrumentation engineers can save time, money and effort by applying standards and tools that centralize and automate the documentation process. This feature originally appeared in the April issue of InTech magazine.

NEMA published Electrical Submeter—Current Sensor Accuracy ANSI/NEMA SM 31000-7-2021, a new standard that covers metrological requirements and associated testing for current sensors used with electrical energy submeters to assess accuracy.

The new version of IEC 61918 now provides a clear and unambiguous description sensor-to-cloud data infrastructure in industrial applications, providing the tools for IIoT implementation.

With open multivendor interoperable standards, automation companies still need to be able to compete on traditional dimensions including quality, reliability, customer service and value. This piece originally appeared in the February 2022 issue of InTech magazine.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA MG 10011-2022 Power Index Calculation Procedure—Standard Rating Methodology for Power Drive Systems and Complete Drive Modules.

ISA’s primary safety standards committees, ISA18 and ISA84, are launching several new projects this year in addition to wrapping up some key ongoing projects. Here is brief rundown of these efforts.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published the 2022 Electrical Standards & Products Guide (ESPG), which is the electroindustry’s go-to resource for 1,000 standards and technical documents, product categories and the manufacturers of those products.

Has the industrial automation industry matured enough to avoid a standards war like the 1990s “Fieldbus wars?"

Although it would be ideal to always select common controls and implementations for both IT and OT, organizations have had challenges in doing so. A new ISAGCA whitepaper explains how to apply ISO/IEC 27001/2 and the ISA/IEC 62443 series to secure operational technology environments. This article originally appeared in the December 2021 issue of Intech magazine.

The ISA88 standards committee, Batch Control, will soon begin work in concert with IEC SC65A on an update of Batch Control Part 1: Models and Terminology. This piece originally appeared in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.