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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. -
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DCS Upgrade: How to Reduce Stress During Execution
DCS upgrades must consider the safety, reliability, and operation of a plant. Be careful when selecting a system, so you do not fall in the frequent-migration trap. -
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ISA is Changing
ISA members can make a difference everyday, improving the Society and helping shape its future. -
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Fault Detection in the Distillation Column Process [technical]
Chemical plants demand fault detection schemes to ensure high product quality, reliability and safety under different operating conditions. -
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What Is the ROI on a Modern Industrial Maintenance Software?
The best way to determine potential ROI is by tracking some vital key performance indicators or KPIs. -
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SAMA and ISA Cybersecurity Expert Steve Mustard in Conversation [Podcast]
Cybersecurity expert Steve Mustard, the incoming 2021 International Society of Automation (ISA) president, was recently invited to speak with the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA). -
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AutoQuiz: How to Calculate the Pressure Recovery Factor for Valves
Pressure recovery factor is the increase in fluid static pressure that occurs as fluid moves through a valve from the vena contracta to the valve's outlet and downstream piping. -
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Increasing Diversity in the Industrial Automation Profession
Opinions of minority participants actively working in the field of automation. They aren’t asking for any special treatment, just fairness. -
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How Process Historians Turn Data Into Actionable Information
Process historians were once simply software packages that stored and presented real-time process data, but today historians are being used for much more. -
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Webinar Recording: Drivers for Cloud SCADA Operations
Solutions for virtualization, cloud and mobility are becoming more stable, reachable and cost-competitive to a larger number of industrial SCADA end-users. -
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IDM Can Improve Plant Reliability and Reduce Downtime
Intelligent device management is a set of tools that are installed on PCNs or on a plant’s business network and collects smart diagnostics info. -
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AutoQuiz: What Type of Circuit Break Protection Should Be Used for Motor Control?
Symbols in the post image are used to represent thermal and magnetic overload protection for electric motors. -
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AutoQuiz: What Are the Characteristics of a Piston Actuator?
An actuator is a device that applies the force necessary to cause a valve's closure member to move. -
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AutoQuiz: When Does an Instrument Need to Be Recalibrated?
Analysis of a calibration plot will help you determine when an industrial instrument needs to be recalibrated. -
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How Has Smart Water Management Impacted Water Treatment?
A closer look at the benefits people working in wastewater treatment can experience by investigating and implementing intelligent technologies. -
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Dynamic Simulation and Control in Natural Gas Processing Plants
Technical benefits derived from employing dynamic simulation and control of operational transients of natural gas processing plants -
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5 Mobile Solutions To Boost Employee Productivity on Production Floor
Mobile solutions are promising as they give professionals visibility to vital data right from the production floor. -
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Alarm system optimization for increasing operations productivity
Alarm system optimization for increasing operations productivity -
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DCS Migration: Failure Is Not an Option
Recently I watched the movie Apollo 13 again, this time including my four children who had never seen the cinematic classic. I’ve personally seen it too many times to count; it’s one of my favorites




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