As plant owners accelerate the Industry 4.0 digital transformation, attention is increasingly being focused on the evolution of Distributed Control Systems (DCS) to enable them to become more flexible ...

The energy industry is undergoing a major transformation. The push for transition, the rise of advanced technologies and the need for operational efficiency are reshaping the sector. At this ...

First published in 2000. As told by Chris Monchinski, 2019–20 Vice President, ISA Standards & Practices Department. ISA-95 from its inception sought to solve an important issue in our industry: ...

Stephen Blank, CEO, Loman Control Systems, Inc. As control system integrators, we belong to a very unique niche in the business of automation. Some CSIs are exclusively engineering firms providing ...

Usually the most underappreciated, hard-to-deliver, and flat-out-difficult of strategic activities in any major IT project is the integration of multiple systems or sources of data together to help ...

As state and local governments rely more on information technology to deliver better services and improve efficiency, they have turned increasingly to systems integrators to design and deploy their ...

Even before the rise of modern robotics, humans were obsessed with creating machines like themselves. It is natural for the industry to have a separate focus on humanoid robotics that resemble the ...

Companies use internal and external controls in their operations in different ways. Financial controls refer to policies employees must follow to avoid mistakes, meet legal compliance requirements and ...

Patti Engineering, Inc., a leader in control systems integration, today announced it has passed an intensive audit to successfully renew the company’s Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA) ...

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