Middleware became a control system, and it did so without inheriting any of the discipline we spent seventy years wrapping ...

For more than a decade, infrastructure teams have focused on efficiency. We automated repetitive tasks, accelerated provisioning and reduced the amount of manual work required to keep systems running.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. This article is more than 2 years old. Automation bias ...

Process manufacturing is extremely complex. Operating in a manner that ensures safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability requires precise orchestration of equipment, people and data to ensure ...

Developed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), the ISA-5 series of standards are essential for industries that rely on complex instrumentation and control systems, including chemical ...