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Digitalization is creating tightly synchronized, real-time integration of business systems and manufacturing automation and is the next big step to increase productivity. Automation professionals who ...

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 ...

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 ...

As told by Ian Verhappen and Graham Nasby. The ISA108 committee is working in a collaborative effort with IEC SC65E WG10 on an important emerging area of automation: intelligent device management.

The financial situation of the average automation engineer got a nice boost in 2018. As the salary of the average automation professional rose for the fifth consecutive year, our salary survey found ...

After review of the current ANSI/ISA-77.13.01, Fossil Fuel Power Plant Steam Turbine Bypass System standard at the meeting in early June 2013, ISA77.13 members decided that a revision is necessary. To ...

The art and science of project management gives us useful knowledge and powerful tools and techniques to successfully manage complex projects in various areas. Nevertheless, it is necessary for ...

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 ...

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 ...

studying control valve user requirements for dynamic performance of control valves defining of terms, performance categories, test methods and instrumentation, performance parameters, specification ...

InTech magazine is now available on Automation.com, the ISA publishing subsidiary. Looking for magazine archives from August 2023 and earlier? Browse the InTech archives below. ISA members may also ...