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association news | Highlights & Updates

ISA Energy and Water Automation


Conference

T
he ISA Energy and Water Auto- tion providers have to engage in mean- and treatment of wastewater.
mation Conference, scheduled ingful dialogue to find those synergies. ISA’s Power Industries Division plans to
for 7–8 August 2019 at the Omni ISA can be a venue for those discussions host sessions covering automation and
Championsgate Resort in Orlando, Fla., in multiple ways, from standards devel- control solutions for oil and gas explora-
will have interactive sessions led by ISA’s opment to content creation to in-person tion, processing, and refining with a focus
power generation, alternative energy, events.” on power generation methodologies, in-
municipal water, and industrial water ex- ISA’s Water/Wastewater Industries Divi- cluding harnessing wind and solar energy.
perts. The conference program will cover sion will bring expertise and content fo- Many industries rely on sourcing, trans-
technologies and best practices that apply cused on effective utility management, porting, handling, recycling, and dispos-
to multiple infrastructure sectors. water/wastewater operations and main- ing industrial water as a core element of
Challenges the industry faces today in-
clude using data analytics in a meaningful
way, navigating the new world of Indus- “Part of ISA’s mission is to increase technical competency
trial Internet of Things with safety and by connecting automation professionals, and this event is a
cybersecurity in mind, and applying the
insights of recent “Smart Cities” initiatives perfect example of how that can benefit our industries.”
to improve operations. —Mary Ramsey
“Part of ISA’s mission is to increase
technical competency by connecting auto- tenance, IT/OT coordination, engineering their power generation strategies. Infra-
mation professionals, and this event is a best practices, integration/programming, structure that supports both power and
perfect example of how that can benefit supervisory control and data acquisition, water are also at the heart of the “Smart
our industries,” said ISA Executive Director programmable logic controllers, instru- Cities” initiatives.
Mary Ramsey. “Technology applications mentation, cybersecurity, and asset man- For more information about the
that are working in one sector can often agement related to the treatment and event, visit https://isaautomation.isa.org/
translate to another, but users and solu- distribution of water and the collection ewac2019. n

New book on situation management available


The new book, er or not the enterprise operates safely New contributions, Rothenberg points
Situation Manage- and productively. These include accurate- out, are the concepts and technology
ment for Process ly and appropriately assessing the current of weak signals and their use to supple-
Control (www.isa. operating environment, transforming ment the alarm system and cover situ-
org/situationmg- that assessment into needed action for ations that alarms are not intended or
mt), is intended proper management of abnormal situa- able to manage.
to unify industry tions, and validating the effectiveness of “Weak signals are small indicators of
understanding the action. things that don’t appear quite right,” he
of how to deliver “Properly understood and executed, it explains. “They can be discovered every-
real value to con- is a game changer in safe and effective where; understanding and exploiting them
trol room opera- operation of industrial plants and opera- will lead to valuable clues and the ability to
tions. Written by tions,” states Rothenberg. “It advances confirm something likely going amiss.”
Douglas H. Rothenberg, PhD—an expert a firm technical framework that ties to- Rothenberg emphasizes the impor-
in alarm management and operator sup- gether all of the traditional individual tance and relevance of the book to man-
port technology—the book explores con- aspects (e.g., procedures, the human- agers, supervisors, operators, human-
trol room management as a discipline, machine interface, control room design, factors engineers, safety personnel, and
focusing on the applicable tools, technol- and more) into a technology to under- technicians in industrial enterprises and
ogy, and methodologies that foster safer, stand and design effective control room operation centers. It will also be useful
more effective control room functioning management operations. This is a unified for regulators, specialists, engineers, sys-
and improved industrial production. approach with explicit tools to deliver tem designers, and trainers at commercial
Situation management is the sum total situation management to control room firms who create monitoring and controls
of the real-time decisions and actions that operators. The tools to see problems are hardware, software, and technology for
the operator makes to determine wheth- followed by the tools to manage them.” end users. n

38 INTECH MARCH/APRIL 2019 WWW.ISA.ORG

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