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With environmental concerns looming, CO2 has been at the forefront of new refrigerant alternatives.

Data historians are key to capturing a facility’s business-critical performance information & are a driving force behind the Industrial Internet of Things.

Examine the status of your existing DCS, your future requirements, and areas where a new automation system could offer improvements. If migration is required, then your next step is to pick the right

Introducing the Top 20 PLC Secure Coding Practices Project, this article argues why the nuances of PLCs should be seen as features, not bugs for security.

Three use cases and an example project illustrate the design elements and processes involved in developing a successful and repeatable ISA-95-based architecture from data generated by brownfield paper machines.

More reliability teams are using remote analysts to improve efficiency. These four key strategies can assist with implementation. This feature originally appeared in the October 2023 issue of InTech digital magazine.

InTech, October 2012 By Rick Zabel While job satisfaction remains high (79.9%), this year’s survey indicates salaries are on the rise—up a respectable 4.4% over last year. This rise is indicative of the noticeable increase in the demand for qualified automation professionals.

It is possible to create a documentation format that works for design and construction and then can be gradually “morphed” into a format that meets the needs of production

ISA President Robert E. Lindeman highlights 2012 achievements in his end-of-year address

ISA Training and Education Programs in July

Tom Finan shares his experience with the Dept. of Homeland Security to improve cyber risk modeling and controls.

Effective cybersecurity for remote industrial operations combines several complementary technologies and practices.

By Glenn Schulz, Managing Director, FDT Group FDT Technology holds the key to integrating a wide range of devices and networks in today’s complex process automation architecture. Ongoing development of this technology, driven by growing instrumentation supplier involvement, is enabling end users to realize the true potential of decentralization, transparency, integration, and a unified view of all data and functions within the manufacturing enterprise.

As we end the second decade of the 21st century, many of our biggest challenges with developing digital infrastructure still originate directly from our inability to creatively collaborate to solve diverse technical issues.

ALTA Refrigeration achieves faster, easier product development and servicing with edge controllers and MQTT. This feature originally appeared in InTech Focus: Control Systems 2022, the InTech Focus ebook for September 2022.

By Erik Davidson, Cortet by CEL This article will focus on the IoT-enabled Smart Lighting Control opportunity, which CEL research shows is one of largest opportunities in the rapidly growing commercial-grade IoT control space.

Next-generation distributed I/O and control open new possibilities for connected infrastructure.

Model predictive control software identifies the dynamics and automatically incorporates them into the industrial evaporator controller.

What things have been found most effective in building a rapport with maintenance technicians?

An interview with Derek Manky, Chief Security Insights and Global Threat Alliance at Fortiguard Labs.