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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.

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.

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.

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.

ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA) announces that the first Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS) exercise at S4 will be held in Miami on April 18, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Can another standards war be avoided with exciting new industrial multivendor interoperability and plug and play standards?

The ISA95 (IEC 62264) standards have an important place in the Industry 4.0 smart factories of the future. The key is an extended ISA95 activity model. This article was originally published in the October 2021 issue of Intech magazine.

Cybersecurity practices will ultimately be determined by asset owners.

NEMA has partnered with the U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA) to host a virtual Advanced Manufacturing Summit. The goals of the summit are to grow U.S. leadership in International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)-based Standards and use more Advanced Manufacturing (AM) systems in newly industrialized countries.

Earlier this year, the ISA100WCI announced that the 2020 award had been presented to Fuji Oil Company, Ltd.

Beamex Inc. is proud to announce that it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification.

Check out this spotlight on ISA's 2021 Cybersecurity Standards Implementation Virtual Conference, taking place on October 19th 2021.