International Society of Automation (ISA) News & Articles
ISA and Automation Federation highlights growing need for skilled manufacturing workers ahead of Man
- September 27, 2018
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Manufacturing Day, 5 October 2018 is designed to amplify the voice of individual companies and coordinate a collective movement toward greater understanding and solutions to key manufacturing challenges
ISA announces ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018 standard
- September 25, 2018
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ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018, Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems: Technical Security Requirements for IACS Components, provides the cybersecurity technical requirements for components that make up an IACS, specifically the embedded devices, network components, host components and software applications.
ISA announces Mary Ramsey as Executive Director
- August 28, 2018
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Ramsey, who has been serving as ISA’s Interim Executive Director since January of this year, has more than 25 years of industrial automation experience. She specializes in leadership, change management and strategy development/execution
ISA announces 2018 Fellows and Celebrating Excellence Award honorees
- July 25, 2018
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Award presentations will be made at the ISA Honors & Awards Gala on 14 October 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
ISA and The Open Group announce cooperation to advance interoperable process control architecture
- July 24, 2018
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The International Society of Automation and The Open Group have agreed to a liaison Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate cooperation in advancing and harmonizing the development of a multivendor, interoperable, secure control architecture for application across the process industries. Activities will include sharing of best practices, document review and joint forums.
ISA announces registration call for 2018 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposiu
- July 11, 2018
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To be held at the Hyatt Regency , from 7-9 August 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland, the event will include briefings by American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Water Environment Federation (WEF) officials, training opportunities, and a vendor exhibition that will showcase new products and services.
ISA releases Safety Instrumented Systems: A Life-Cycle Approach book
- July 9, 2018
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Safety Instrumented Systems: A Life-Cycle Approach by Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE, and Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust CPEng, leverages the performance and documentation requirements defined in the ISA/IEC 61511 functional process safety standard.
ISA helps facilitate cybersecurity training at Cyber Shield 2018
- May 24, 2018
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More than 800 soldiers, airmen and civilians from across 40 US states and territories participated in Cyber Shield 2018 at Camp Atterbury in Indiana
ISA announces ISASecure Overview and 2018 Update: Securing Control Systems to IEC 62443 webinar
- May 17, 2018
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Participants in the May 24, 11AM EDT webinar will learn about the structure and content of the international IEC 62443 control systems cybersecurity standards and the related ISASecure conformity assessment program.
ISA publishes third edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
- May 8, 2018
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This release has been updated to reflect the continuing evolution of digital technologies and their impact on automation processes as well as automation standards in such areas as alarm management, HMI design and operational technology cybersecurity.