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Bill’s Top 10 Automation & Control Trends for 2018 - A Year of Technology Driven Change
After another busy year talking to a wide range of users, suppliers and industry consultants, and attending over 20 industry conferences and related events, I have another year’s worth of informed insights to share on the latest trends that will shape automation in 2018. -
Flare Monitoring Regulatory Compliance and Analyzers: An Analysis
By Scott Eddleman, Yokogawa In 2016, the EPA finalized its refinery sector rule on maximum achievable control technology (MACT) regulations, and gave refineries 18 months to comply. In this article, we’ll review the requirements and describe the three types of analyzers refineries can use to ensure compliance. -
METTLER TOLEDO releases guides for food manufacturing productivity & compliance
METTLER TOLEDO’s new food guides are designed to help manufacturers improve their understanding of food-safety standards and introduce them to processing equipment and solutions that can help operations become more efficient: -
How to Leverage ISA Standards to Achieve Sustainable Benefits During Industrial Project Design
Leveraging ISA standards during the industrial project design phase can enable companies to achieve sustainable benefits. -
ISA announces third edition release of Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application
Dr. Wade—who has more than 50 years of experience designing, applying and installing process control systems—says the updated edition builds upon the real-world experiences and process knowledge of engineers and technicians to demonstrate the application of successful regulatory control strategies and techniques. -
Compliance of the Victim: ARC Industry Forum Highlights an Industry in Transition
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com There is an common adage that has survived the ages: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Automation system users are expressing frustrations with existing systems and the lack of modern and open technology. -
How to Apply ISA Standards to Achieve Industrial Production Agility
The most successful industrial producers are adept at quickly altering their operation in response to constantly changing market demands. -
Top-Down Security Approach – The Final Stage for OT Protection and Compliance
By Shmulik Aran, NextNine This article, the fourth and final article in a series on OT security management for the manufacturing industry, will discuss a top down approach for protecting ICS systems -
How to Future-Proof Industrial Systems with Standards-Based Design
ISA standards, when blended in a comprehensive manner, can form the basis of a successful and future-proof automation strategy. -
Managing Infrequent Operational Procedures Is Critical to Safe Process Manufacturing
Managing infrequent operational procedures is critical to the safe and efficient operation of continuous process manufacturing. -
Automating IT Compliance Audits
By Dean Wiech, Tools4ever Having the proper controls in place at the front end of the process can make audit reporting relatively painless. IM and AG systems are designed to automate the user account lifecycle, all the while ensuring that the access provided to users is appropriate -
AutoQuiz: What is the Definition of a Design Standard?
Standards define quality and methods of fabrication or installation of materials and equipment -
ISA Members Develop Key Standards That Advance the Industrial Automation Industry
ISA members develop standards in everything from cybersecurity to process safety to interfaces between industrial process control computers and subsystems -
AutoQuiz: What is the Standard for Embedded Software for SIL 3 Certified Safety System?
According to IEC 61511-1, embedded software should follow software guidelines in IEC 61508-3. IEC 61511 and ANSI/ISA84 are system standards and not product standards. -
IEC-1131 - The First Universal Process Control Language
IEC-1131 is the first international standard for process control software. By using IEC-1131, a programmer can develop a control algorithm for a particular brand of controller, and import that same program to another brand with minimum modifications, primarily to process input/output subsystems. -
Don't Trip Over OSHA Compliance: Adequate Fall Protection Paramount to Employee Safety
By Rob Honeycutt, co-founder, SafeRack Implementation of effective fall prevention and protection technologies can go a long way in improving worker safety. -
ISA-88 Standard Marries Plant-Floor Automation with MES Supervision
A best-practices approach like ISA-88 is seldom the wrong choice for marrying plant-floor automation with MES supervision. -
Using ISA-88 to Enhance MES Implementation
A comprehensive system design which includes both MES and plant-floor automation details will yield the most complete rewards. -
Batch Process Automation Can Make Continuous Processes Run Better
While most batch processes use automated procedures extensively, most continuous processes still use manual procedures. Manual operation has a high potential for problems due to the variability of how -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook
The Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook offers an understanding and tools needed to implement a performance-based FGS design.
