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Certified for Success—Building a Better Integration Business

Over its 25 years, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) has helped system integrators build better businesses one company at a time. In this session, you'll learn about the help CSIA offers integration companies and you'll hear first-hand from CSIA-certified system integrator Grantek about their successful partnership with CSIA. Grantek is a leading CSIA Certified member who joined CSIA in 2008. Come in and learn of the specific benefits Grantek has derived from this relationship and get ideas to help grow the success of your integration business in this informative, open discussion.

Building Better Systems Using Industrial Standards

Standards aren’t meant to eliminate thinking and stifle creativity. If used properly, standards create a common language and a systematic approach to solving problems using industry-wide best practices. They encourage communication and foster creativity in solving engineering problems. In this session, Dennis Brandl, an expert on ISA and IEC international standards, will discuss how to apply the concepts of standardization to improve organizational collaboration and design better systems. You’ll also see how ISA 95, ISA 88, ISA 99, and their international equivalents are being effectively applied to systems today, and what new standards and tools are available now to help organizations build better control systems.

We're on the Edge of Glory: Building Intelligent Systems of the Future—Today

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an explosive, extremely toxic chemical found in most natural gas, so potent that it can kill a person with a single breath. Converting H2S into fertilizer-grade sulfur is a dangerous business, one which Streamline Innovations has perfected through superior chemistry, strong business practices, and a state-of-the-art control system that combines Ignition, Ignition Edge, Moxa devices, and MQTT. This semi-autonomous, intelligent system can be operated and managed easily and completely remotely. In this session, learn how Streamline created their control system of the future today using only off-the-shelf products, and get tips on how to do it yourself.

Taking Ignition to the Next Level with Machine Learning

Inductive Automation's machine learning experts will lead conference attendees through practical applications for machine learning, along with typical ML setups that Ignition users could implement on their own systems. Further, they will be illustrating how to use more sophisticated implementations of ML to advance your system.