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FIRST Participants Show What an Open, Creative Mindset Can Achieve
ISA President Steven Pflantz says ISA members can learn from the bright, extremely motivated youth participating in FIRST and other STEM programs. -
Industrial Risk Avoidance: Proactive Instead of Reactive Maintenance
Transforming an industrial plant’s calibration system to a fully automated system. -
AutoQuiz: Best Strategy for Finding Efficient Operating Points with Complex Shifting Process Conditions
Real-time optimization with a detailed process model is the best approach to fining the most efficient operating points. -
How to Improve Industrial Productivity with Loop Calibration
Logical & careful planning of loop testing strategies results in improved control performance without compromising plant quality, reliability, or safety. -
Simulation and Stability Analysis of Neural Network Based Control Scheme for Switched Linear Systems
Researchers propose a new adaptive neural network based control scheme for switched linear systems with parametric uncertainty and external disturbance. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Application for an Impulse Line in Fluid Flow?
Impulse lines connect the process to the pressure transmitter, to reduce the effect of ambient temperature on the transmitter's operability and life span. -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Driving Business Value in Industrial Innovation
The emerging frontier for industrial innovation points at exciting changes likely to revolutionize the business of manufacturing. -
Feedforward Control Enables Flexible, Sustainable Manufacturing
Feedforward provides preemptive corrective action for production rate and grade changes enabling key PID controllers to provide consistent product quality. -
AutoQuiz: Why Are Gathering Requirements Critical to the Success of an Automation Project?
Gathering requirements are important because they define the objectives, purpose, scope, needs, and other key meters. -
What Is the Next Generation of Process Automation Wireless Technology?
Wireless technology has gained rapid acceptance in many industrial sectors because of its cost effectiveness, reliability, fast deployment, and flexibility. -
Webinar Recording: Large Industrial Project Execution
There are many challenges to effectively executing industrial automation scope as overall project size grows to $100 million and beyond. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Process for a Continuity Check of a Field Transmitter?
A continuity check is performed on a length of finished wire or cable to determine if the electrical current flows continuously throughout the length. -
Webinar Recording: How to Identify and Overcome Cybersecurity Challenges
Before implementing a cybersecurity technical solution, take an inventory of your industrial network cyber assets and perform a vulnerability assessment. -
PID Controller Tuning Rules
Safety, equipment and environmental protection, process efficiency and capacity, product quality, and control system maintenance depend on PID tuning. -
AutoQuiz: How to Measure and Compensate for Disturbances to Prevent Set Point Deviance
The objective of feedforward control is to measure disturbances and compensate for them before the controlled variable deviates from set point. -
Shaping the Future of Our Profession and Association
ISA President Steven Pflantz says ISA members should seek opportunities to serve as advocates and ambassadors for the industrial automation profession. -
Design and Analysis of a Model Predictive Controller for Active Queue Management
An ISA technical paper proposes a model predictive control as a novel active queue management algorithm in dynamic computer networks. -
Automation Competency Model Helps Guide Future Technical Workforce
The Automation Competency Model has been a tool for educators and parents, industry management, and lawmakers. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Dead Band of an Instrument?
The dead band is the range through which an input signal may vary, upon reversal of direction, without initiating an observable change in output signal. -
Industrial Pervasive Sensing Reduces Costs and Prevents Downtime
Industrial pervasive sensing devices lower energy requirements and reduce maintenance costs.

















