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A dead-weight tester apparatus uses known traceable weights to apply pressure to a fluid for checking the accuracy of readings from a pressure gauge or pressure transmitter.

ISA’s Process Industry Conference offers a turnkey experience for gaining important foundational knowledge and training.

Receipt verification is an industrial systematic process by which a site verifies that what was specified and ordered is actually what is received.

The substitution method may reveal the component that is the cause of the problem.

As part of the company’s Workforce Development Program, it aims to bring its equipment to schools, technical colleges, and non-profit organizations, and provide skills in programming, service, maintenance and operations. Mitsubishi Electric Automation granted a CNC Specialist Certification to those who successfully completed the program, which was offered during the week of August 26-30th.

A database record is a single row of information in a table.

ISA sponsors professional meetings featuring exciting conference presentations throughout the year. Many other opportunities abound in training, certification, standards, and editorial.

For a direct-acting controller, the resulting output movement is in the same direction as the movement of the process variable.

In cavitation, when the liquid drops below the vapor pressure around the vena cava, the liquid vaporizes.

Both gain and reset (integral action) act upon the error in the same direction, per a simplified proportional, integral, derivative (PID) control algorithm.

ROI equations do not account for lost opportunity to collect investment interest on money diverted to fund an automation project or the time value of money.

The only barrier for systems integrators in learning basic scripting languages is having a passion for making things work and knowing how to use Google.

ISA regional sections and industry divisions offer members industry networking opportunities at local meetings and international technical conferences.

Gain is defined in industrial control theory as the change in input divided by the change in output.

Spurious trips and nuisance trips are indicative of “safe” failure modes, not “dangerous” failures.

Resistance is an electrical quantity that measures how a device or material reduces the electric current flow through it.

The most important measure for production equipment support is operational availability, or “uptime.”

Troubleshooting is often an iterative process. If the proposed solution is not the correct one, further analysis and data collection are warranted.

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.

The funding will play a vital role in helping Ohio address the workforce shortage and skills gap affecting manufacturing, as manufacturers across the state have repeatedly cited workforce as their top issue of concern.