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The incorporation of Honeywell solution ControlEdge HC900 into Global Control’s furnace and oven offerings accelerates the OEM’s widespread availability and strengthens its competitiveness.

The ISA hosted the Virtual Digital Transformation in Deepwater Production Conference on Sept. 16, 2020, featuring 11 speakers and panelists representing Shell, VisCo, BP, and more.

The collaboration between ABB and PT Shell will maximize lubricant output to meet increasing demand in Indonesia.

The International Society for Automation’s (ISA) 75th Anniversary has inspired a look into the future at the megatrends that will drive the automation industry during the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

In 2020, mining and metals companies are looking to recover from COVID-19, increase sustainability, and ensure public trust. Long-term trends are positive.

Women in Manufacturing (WiM) has inducted 15 women into its inaugural Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

An ISA Fellow recounts the evolution of process control work that he has experienced.

Reducing time-to-first-value enables plant and manufacturing executives who believe in the potential of operational AI to prove their intuition quickly and with much less risk.

Digital commissioning application and Netilion turnover package provides added value services to ensure projects stay on time, on-budget, and up to date on project steps.

Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'Why are engineers so against derivative action?'

An ISA Fellow describes his family history in mining, engineering, and aviation while speculating about the future of industrial automation.

Sensor Technology has harnessed the phenomenon of SAW or Raleigh waves, which were first observed over 100 years ago and which form a major part of the destructive force of an earthquake.

Birla Carbon has relied for many years on a distributed control system to optimize the production of carbon black powder. When it came time to modernize their DCS, they implemented an IO migration strategy to minimize plant downtime and hardware replacement costs.

In this book excerpt from ISA Publishing, the author explores a real-world example of calculating OEE.

The Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam is a prerequisite to the Professional Engineer (PE) exam, which engineers need to pass to practice in the U.S.

By Bill Lydon The Process Automation industry has been heavily impacted by the influx of new technologies and, as we enter the next decade, several organizations are providing roadmaps in order to help process automation companies enable the best practices to leverage these technologies and drive competitiveness and productivity forward.

Hanseatic Power Solutions GmbH (HPS) automated its control cabinet engineering in several steps and has just implemented EPLAN Cogineer. The company has now used a "before and after" comparison to record actual time savings. Electrical planning alone now takes only 20% of the original time.

The purification plant will treat wastewater from 26 municipalities across two provinces, servicing the needs of more than 90,000 inhabitants.

The study was commissioned by Kryon to answer the ever-present question for any company taking its first steps toward an RPA implementation. On June 17, 2020, Kryon hosted a webinar featuring Forrester to discuss the results of the TEI.

Located in Luther, Oklahoma, the Redbud plant comprises four identical 1X1 units generating a combined output of 1,230 megawatts.