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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. -
Why You Must Factor Maintenance Into the Cost of Any Industrial System
Maintenance is as important as the selection & implementation of an industrial system. It's not an extra cost, but is an inherent price of this technology. -
How to Use Asset Performance Management as a Driver for Digital Industrial Transformation
Operator insights from data analytics and asset performance management creates new energy efficiencies and expands capacity. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Best Method for Measuring the Level of a Highly Corrosive Media?
Ultrasonic level detectors use the principle of reflection of an acoustic wave from liquid to vapor phase and vapor to liquid phase. -
ISA Values: Live Them
ISA's vision has always been to create a better world through automation. -
Cost-Effective Option for Using Cellular Data for SCADA and Data Acquisition at Remote Sites
A cost-effective option for SCADA and data acquisition at remote sites, but efficient protocols and careful data handling are required -
New Control Approach Increases Efficiency and Safety of Boiler-Turbine Systems [Technical]
A new robust control approach has been developed to improve the coordinated control performance for subcritical boiler-turbine units. -
AutoQuiz: Which Signal Type Indicates Direction and Velocity in a Motion Control Application?
To indicate both direction & velocity, a signal with both positive and negative characteristics is required. Motion controls use either ±10 V or ±5 V signals to accomplish this. -
IIoT Solves Problems Previously Considered Unsolvable
The value the IIoT brings is not about the amount of data generated. Rather it is about what is being done with that data -
How Long Before Watson Comes to Engineering?
Computers and artificial intelligence may radcially change the field of engineering and process industry applications.. -
AutoQuiz: What Type of Switch Is Designed to Detect the End of Travel of a Valve?
Limit switch is a general term to describe the class of devices that are used to detect the end of travel of a valve, louver, or any other item that may be in motion. -
What Are the Opportunities for Nonlinear Control in Process Industry Applications?
MPC for batch operations can be achieved by translation of controlled variable from batch temperature or composition with a unidirectional response to the slope of the batch profile.