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AutoQuiz: What is the Process of Grinding the Plug and Seat of a Valve Called?
What is the process of grinding the plug and seat of a valve called? -
Adaptive Terminal Sliding-Mode Control Strategy for DC-DC Buck Converters
An ISA technical paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control strategy for DC–DC buck converters. -
Best Location to Calibrate Instruments: Field or Workshop?
Deciding whether to calibrate instruments in the field or workshop is not a simple choice. The two methods often complement each other. -
Innovations in Butterfly Control Valve Technology
In an effort to advance control valve technology, industrial designers have developed new butterfly valve innovations. -
Simple Strategies for Maximizing Biopharmaceutical Product Quality
Use of key PID features, tuning objectives and feedforward control can meet the stringent requirements for biopharmaceutical production. -
Stochastic Behavior Analysis of Complex Repairable Industrial Systems Utilizing Uncertain Data
An ISA technical paper presents a novel technique for analyzing the behavior of an industrial system stochastically by utilizing vague, imprecise, and uncertain data. -
Advocacy is Vital to the Future of the Automation Profession
Advocacy is one of ISA’s long-term strategic objectives and at the core of the Automation Federation’s mission. -
Why Standards Benefit Manufacturing and the Process Industries
New industrial automation industry standards are enablers for leveraging new technology for the process industries. -
ISA Education and Technical Training in June
June 2015 offered a number of educational and technical training offerings from ISA. -
Simple Strategies for Optimizing Ethanol Plants
PID controllers for front-end production rate, slurry concentration & average fermentation time can decrease costs and increase production rates for ethanol plants. -
Optimal Control in Microgrid Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
An ISA technical paper presents an improved reinforcement learning method to minimize electricity costs on the premise of satisfying the power balance and generation limit of units in a microgrid with -
Six Emerging Trends in the World of Industrial Robotics
Close collaboration between humans and robots, working as colleagues on assembly lines and in other applications, will be a large part of the future of industrial robotics. Robots will need to develop -
How to Cut New Construction Project Costs Using Smart Transmitter Technology
Smart transmitter technology can affect the future maintenance costs over a plant’s lifecycle. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Calculate the Pressure Measurement of an Open Tube Manometer
If an open tube manometer indicates 6.11 inches of Hg (mercury), what is the pressure measurement? -
Reaching the Next Industrial Level with Packaging Machine Communication Standards
Packaging machines must deal with high speeds, multi-axis motion control, advanced vision systems & frequent involvement of several different vendors in one installation. -
May Technical Training and Education Opportunities from ISA
ISA offers a variety of programs, online webinars, and certification exam prep. -
AutoQuiz: What is the Integral Action, Which is Part of a PID Algorithm, Often Called?
The three terms (proportional-integral-derivative) of the PID algorithm have other designations. -
Effective Alarm Management Planning Using ANSI/ISA-18.2
Using the ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009 standard for alarm management early in the DCS selection and specification stage can eliminate a number of project problems. -
AutoQuiz: What Does a Symbol Depicting a Circle Inside a Box Represent?
The circle symbol usually represents an instrument. View instrument symbols standard according to ISA S5.1. -
Set Your Sights on ISA’s 2015 Division Symposia
Each year, ISA organizes technical division symposia and conference events at different locations throughout the U.S.
