The International Society of Automation (ISA) is the world’s leading professional society for industrial automation. ISA and its community of subject matter experts offer content and thought ...

Steam distribution systems support manufacturing across a huge range of industries, from craft brewing to oil refining and most everything in between. Steam can carry enormous amounts of energy, and ...

This subcommittee will provide a forum in which to determine and evaluate the fundamental cavitation problems in control valve applications, to establish methods for evaluating the potential for ...

Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...

According to the big data analytics cover story in the November/December 2015 issue of InTech (www.isa.org/intech/20151201), "Manufacturing firms have the benefit and ...

Identify the forces that act on closure components and actuators. Describe how these forces work in the positioning of closure components. Prepare equations required to determine an actuator (i.e.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) has partnered with Elsevier to make the content of ISA Transactions: The Journal of Automation available through Science Direct, a robust, fully ...

Cybersecurity incidents will have serious ramifications if today's workforce is not better trained to deal with them. The Automation Federation (AF) thinks this issue is even more acute in the ...

The purpose of this committee is to standardize criteria, methods and procedures for assuring the design and operational adequacy of reactor coolant pressure boundary leak detection systems used in ...

This committee will establish a system of graphical symbols, charts, matrices, and diagrams that will specify and facilitate implementation of software-based control systems. These documents may ...

ISA’s industrial cybersecurity training courses and knowledge-based certificate recognition program are based on ISA/IEC 62443—the world’s only consensus-based series of IACS standards. Member ...

The documents developed by ISA84 will cover the activities involved in the design, operation and maintenance of instrumented systems, from sensor through final element, used to achieve functional ...