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Technical Automation Topics
- Additive manufacturing/3D printing
- Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models, generative AI, AI-based advisory or control systems
- Autonomous systems (driverless cars, drones, intelligent robots)
- Blockchain
- Digital twin
- Industry 4.0
- Industry 5.0
- Smart manufacturing
- Virtual, augmented and mixed reality
- Wearables
- Automatic identification systems
- Batch process control
- Building automation (heating, ventilation and air conditioning, fire detection, lighting control, access control, closed circuit TV [CCTV] and intrusion monitoring)
- Continuous process control
- Control centers/rooms
- Control strategies (cascade, ratio, override, feedforward, reset feedback, etc.)
- Control systems
- Controller tuning and optimization
- Data historian
- Discrete control
- Electrical system
- Control valves and actuators
- Human-machine interface (HMI)
- Industrial computers
- Instruments, sensors and industrial I/O
- Model-based control (advanced process control [APC], model predictive control [MPC], dynamic matrix control [DMC], smith predictor, etc.)
- Modifications (set point softening, digital, series, velocity, etc.)
- Motion control
- Procedure automation
- Remote terminal units (RTUs)
- Robotics
- Sequential control
- Soft computing methods (fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary genetics algorithms)
- Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
- System troubleshooting
- Vision systems
- Cloud computing
- Data strategy
- Device management (field device technology [FDT], electronic device description language [EDDL])
- Digital thread
- Domain driven design
- Edge computing
- Industrial internet of things (IIoT)
- IT/OT convergence
- Microservices
- Monolithic
- Network devices (firewalls, routers, switches, gateways, data diodes, etc.)
- Network management
- Network protocols
- Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA)
- Unified name space (UNS)
- Wireless networks (Wi-Fi, wireless instrumentation networks [ISA100, WirelessHART, etc.], LTE/5G/6G, satellite [VSAT, Starlink, etc.])
- Asset management
- Commissioning, FAT/SAT
- Control system changeovers and migrations
- Control system integration/Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- Corporate/enterprise resource planning (ERP) (SOCs, recipes, work orders, BOMs)
- Data science and analytics (machine learning, deep learning, predictive and preventive control)
- Design engineering
- Digital strategy
- Documentation
- Environment, health, safety and security (EHSS)
- Industry maturity and readiness
- Modeling and simulation (dynamic, steady state, mathematical methods, model validation)
- Project planning and execution
- Risk management
- Standards, regulations and compliance
- Sustainability
- Workforce development
- Workforce training
Automation.com Content Addresses Multiple Industries
ISA is a horizontal organization and Automation.com is a horizontal publication, both addressing multiple industry sectors. Our automation content and thought leadership are applicable to the following industries:
- Agriculture
- Aircraft, aerospace
- Automotive, other transportation vehicles/systems
- Chemicals and allied products
- Communications/networking/data services
- Computers, electronics and semiconductors
- Consumer
- Education and training
- Engineering consulting/EPC
- Ethanol production
- Fabricated metal products
- Facilities/building management
- Consumer packaged goods, food and beverage
- Glass, concrete, stone and clay products
- Government and military
- Industrial machinery and equipment
- Instrumentation and control test and measurement systems
- Marine, maritime
- Medical devices/equipment
- Metal processing
- Mining and minerals
- Miscellaneous or other manufacturing
- Oil, gas and petroleum – extraction/upstream
- Oil, gas and petroleum – pipeline/midstream
- Oil, gas and petroleum – refining/downstream
- Paper, wood and allied products
- Pharmaceuticals, life sciences
- Plastics and rubber
- Power generation/distribution – electrical, oil, gas, nuclear and combined
- Power generation/distribution – renewable: solar, wind, etc.
- Smart cities/building automation
- Systems integration/value-added resellers
- Textiles, apparel and leather
- Warehouse/distribution, logistics and ports
- Water/wastewater
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