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ISA, Will-DuPage Section participates in Local Career Fair

A big thank you to Dan Moore from Lincoln Way Community High School in New Lenox for hosting the ISA Will-DuPage Section at their 2nd Annual Career Fair today. Dan has coordinated this career fair to introduce local students to careers in the trades or with a 2 year degree. Based on the number of … Read more

ISA Will-DuPage covers high-performance HMIs

Posted on www.controlglobal.com Keeping operators in the know about the status of their operations is essential, and as technology has evolved so have the interfaces for doing so. Today’s human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are significantly different from their predecessors, so how do we design HMIs to ensure success? And what’s the best way to implement them … Read more

Call for Topics 2017-2018

ISA Will-DuPage Board of Directors invites you to submit an abstract for inclusion in the 2017-2018 Technical Presentation and Tabletop Training Sessions. As we continue to focus on increasing the Comprar Calzoncillos Calvin Klein quality of the presentations & training sessions, we will select the best topics submitted by ISA Will-DuPage members and non-members. Proposed … Read more

Loop tuning basics: Integrating processes

The two most common categories of process responses in industrial manufacturing processes are self-regulating and integrating. A self-regulating process response to a step input change is characterized by a change of the process variable, which moves to and stabilizes (or self-regulates) at a new value.

Are Parents Out of Touch with Careers in Manufacturing?

There’s plenty of concern about the retiring generation of industrial professionals and the potential shortage of skilled workers needed to fill new jobs created by revolutionary advances in automation and manufacturing technology. Industry leaders remain hyper-focused on the challenges of encouraging high school and college students to pursue industrial careers.

CSIA gives Morley first lifetime achievement award

System integrators credit PLC inventor with paving way for their profession.
In a surprise move during the April 21 awards dinner at their 2016 executive conference, members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) revealed that they recently gave “father of the PLC” Dick Morley the organization’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.

How Do You Pick a Flowmeter?

This is an excerpt from the March/April 2014 issue of InTech magazine and was written by Walt Boyes, a principal at Spitzer and Boyes LLC, a technology consulting firm. Picking a flowmeter takes both knowledge of the types of meters available and the kind of empirically derived knowledge that comes from experience. If you are … Read more