Editor’s Note: September is Safety Month in the North American railway industry. This month, Railway Age “recalls to active duty” the three-part series on System Safety by Sonia Bot and Tony Zenga, ...

Note: This is the second part of Ray’s July/August column of the same name. Q: Is there a standard or common convention for naming doors in an access control system? A: There is no single standard, or ...

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: ...

The International Society of Automation (ISA) — the leading professional society for automation — has announced the publication of ANSI/ISA-95.00.01-2025, (IEC 62264-1 Mod), Enterprise-Control System ...

Distributed control systems (DCSs) are commonplace in continuous processing, particularly in the oil and gas and chemical industries where they’re used to control several machines or processes at the ...

Off-road driving is a delicate (and ever-changing) dance of obstacle avoidance, tire placement, steering inputs, throttle touch, and brake control. Some manufacturers understand this, and these ...

The Department of Transportation will build a “brand new air traffic control system” by 2028, Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday. “The FAA is going to undertake an initiative that has never been ...

Why it matters: It is scary to contemplate that all that keeps a plane from crashing can come down to an air traffic controller's sharp-eyed vigilance. It is even scarier to think that this person ...