1. The International Society of Automation 2019 Society Overview
ISA
The International Society of Automation
2019 Society Overview

2. ISA’s Network of 350,000+ Automation Professionals
Identify Industry Needs
Raw Materials Processing
Discrete Parts Manufacturing
Engineering and Construction
Utilities
Develop Authoritative Technical Resources
Standards
Education and Training
Certification
Publishing
Conferences and Exhibits
ISA’s network is made up of members and customers from many different industries – including process industries, discrete industries, E&C firms, integrators, and utilities. Thousands of subject matter experts from within the community dedicate their time and expertise to help ISA develop standards, training programs, certifications, books, conferences, and more.

3. ISA’s Impact on the World of Automation
ISA Solutions
Result
Industry Needs
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
Skilled Workforce
Fundamentals
Troubleshooting
Education and Training
Hands-on and unbiased
Expert Instructors
Objective Skill Assessments
Demonstrate proficiency
Recognize individual competencies
Certification
Certified Automation Professional
Certified Control Systems Technician
Best Practices
Networking opportunities
Case studies of best practices
Conferences and Exhibits
Topic-Focused Conferences
Section Events Worldwide
Our industries are faced with many challenges – over and over again, when we talk to individuals and companies around the globe, they tell us that their main challenges include finding, evaluating, and retaining a skilled workforce; understanding current best practices; accessing continuing education; and improving their operations. ISA offers solutions for each of these challenges – ultimately, leading to increased productivity and better results for individuals and companies. ISA membership brings all of these solutions together for individuals in automation.
Continuing Education
Resources available 24/7
Latest industry trends, applications
Publishing
Authoritative books
Widely read magazine, technical journal, and digital publications
Operational Excellence
Improve performance, operability
Reduce downtime, maintenance costs
Standards
150 consensus industry standards
Reciprocal adoption with IEC

4. Classroom locations regionally In-plant training at your facility
NEED: Skilled Workforce
SOLUTION: ISA Education and Training
ISA Hands On Training
Classroom locations regionally
In-plant training at your facility
Section co-sponsored training
Boot Camps
Online Training
Modular courses and instructor-assisted training
Let’s dig a little deeper into the most-often mentioned challenge across dozens of industries – attracting and retaining a skilled workforce. The single largest barrier to growth for organizations around the world is a shortage of qualified professionals. That’s where ISA comes in. ISA’s courses are available in a variety of lengths and formats – if you’re looking for a one day in person course, a three month online course, or a week-long course held in your plant, we can meet your needs.
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5. NEED: Skilled Workforce
SOLUTION: ISA Education and Training
ISA’s in-plant training program set revenue records for the third year in a row in 2018 and open enrollment training continues to grow year-over-year
Most popular training topics include safety, cybersecurity, and fundamentals training
The latest training courses offered cover these topics:
Wireless
Asset management
Data acquisition
Advanced safety integrity level selection
Advanced design and SIL verification
Analyzers
The market continues to respond positively to these offerings. For the second year in a row, ISA’s in-plant training program set a new revenue record. Plants and facilities around the world benefit from bringing our training to their locations, because they can save time, save money on travel costs, and train more people at once. Our most popular courses are focused on safety, cybersecurity, and instrumentation fundamentals, but we offer courses in dozens of different topic areas. Our newest training courses cover topics like MES, penetration testing, process measurement fundamentals, industrial and IT data communications, cybersecurity for water/wastewater, cyber sensors and IOT, and alarm management.

6. Section co-sponsored training
Need: Skilled workforce
Solution: ISA education and training
Section co-sponsored training
Team up with ISA training and earn revenue
2019 goal: 14 total (1 per district)
How It Works:
Pick the course and schedule (16 week lead time necessary)
You pick the venue
You fill the seats (Minimum 5 registrations required)
ISA sends the instructor to you
ISA pays your section! (10% revenue share)
Contact for more details
During ISA’s 2018 budget development process, the ISA Executive Board issued a challenge to sections around the world – the goal is to co-sponsor at least one training course in each District. By bringing an ISA course to your local area, ISA Sections can earn money – and even more importantly, you’ll be delivering quality education to your members and prospects.
If your section decides to participate, you’ll select a course that you think your local area would find valuable. You’ll find a venue and schedule the course at least 16 weeks in advance so that you have plenty of time to promote it locally. If at least 5 people register, the course can run and your section will reap the benefits. ISA will deliver the course and your section will earn 10% of the revenue!

7. NEED: Objective Skill Assessments
SOLUTION: ISA Certification and Certificate Programs
Another very closely related need in industry is the ability to document and objectively quantify skill sets in current or potential employees. ISA’s two flagship certification programs, CAP and CCST, were designed by experts in the field to cover the most important skills needed by automation professionals and technicians. Our newest programs offer certificates in cybersecurity and safety. To earn a certificate, applicants complete a training course and an exam. There are several levels in each program culminating in the ISA/IEC Cybersecurity Expert Designation and the ISA84/IEC Process Safety Expert Designation. ISA’s training courses and exams can be brought to your location, worldwide.
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8. What’s New in Certification and Certificate Programs
NEED: Objective Skill Assessments
SOLUTION: ISA Certification
SOLUTION: ISA Certification and Certificate Programs
What’s New in Certification and Certificate Programs
Digital Badging
Allows certificate and certification holders to use an image to quickly communicate their skills and achievements
Badges store certain bits of metadata that allows them to be verified and used anywhere that accepts this format; users can add them to badge “backpacks”, job sites, social networks, portfolio pages, and signatures
Case Study: One leading supplier is utilizing ISA’s cybersecurity certificate program within their internal training and certification programs for employees, customers, and partners
One of the latest trends in certification and certificate programs is digital badging. A digital badge is a validated, online representation of a skill you've earned. Badges are conversation starters, and the information linked to or 'behind' each badge serves as justification and validation of the badge. Once you’ve earned a certification or certificate, you can display your badge on your CV or resume, within your profiles on social networks or intranets, and in your signature as an easy way for others to see your accomplishment.
Another trend we see relates to supplier training and how major automation vendors are developing internal training and certification programs to make sure their employees, customers, and partners are aligned on key technical topics. For companies who have dozens of locations around the world, using lots of different contractors in different industry segments, it can be very difficult to align on terminology, processes, and best practices. A common program that trains people on these topics the same way every time is a solution that many large companies are developing. Schneider Electric is one significant example of this and they are using ISA’s cybersecurity courses, and our certificate program, within their curriculum for training their employees, contractors, and customers. We anticipate more of this type of outreach in the future.

9. NEED: Networking, Sharing Best Practices
SOLUTION: ISA Conferences and Exhibits

10. ISA Books ISA Technical Papers ISA Transactions InTech magazine
NEED: Accessible, Continuous Education
SOLUTION: ISA Publishing
ISA Books
Dozens of authoritative titles written by industry experts; focused on real-world application of technology
ISA Technical Papers
Thousands of comprehensive papers presented at ISA events; free downloads for ISA members
ISA Transactions
Professional journal; published 6 times per year
Accessing continuing education doesn’t always have to come in the form of a training course or a conference – sometimes the right tool is best found at your fingertips.
ISA has published hundreds of authoritative books, each peer-reviewed for accuracy and relevance. More than 5,500 technical papers are accessible for free by ISA members, and ISA’s technical journal, ISA Transactions, has one of the best ratings in the field. InTech magazine is probably the most widely recognized title that ISA produces. This respected magazine is published six times per year and is available in digital and paper editions. InTech’s editorial board selects stories based on real-life applications that you can take back to your plant and implement. Readers have responded, naming InTech the most useful magazine in the profession in a recent survey.
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InTech magazine
Published 6 times per year, plus online and digital editions
Practical solutions for today’s challenges

11. Highlights and News: ISA Publishing
NEED: Accessible, Continuous Education
SOLUTION: ISA Publishing
Highlights and News: ISA Publishing
Most popular books:
Troubleshooting: A Technician's Guide, William Mostia
Calibration: A Technician's Guide, Mike Cable
Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification, Paul Gruhn and Harry Cheddie
The Condensed Handbook of Measurement and Control, N.E. Battikha
A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
Outsourcing book production elements to streamline process
Publishing content in smaller pieces, multiple formats
Success story: featuring ISA’s authors in ISA Interchange (the ISA blog) has generated significant interest and readership
Our most popular book titles cover topics like troubleshooting, calibration, safety instrumented systems, In addition to capitalizing on the consistent interest in these titles, ISA’s publishing arm is continuously looking for new ways to innovate. Our newest titles include topics like driving business value, detecting leaks in pipelines, regulatory control, SIS design, and new editions of some of our best sellers.

12. Benefits of Standardization
NEED: Operational Excellence
SOLUTION: ISA Standards
ISA Standards
Open and consensus-based
Industry-developed
More than 4,000 professionals working on hundreds of documents
ISA’s standards are known around the globe for their importance in helping companies streamline processes, improve reliability, protect safety, and increase productivity. ISA has more than 100 standards committees, made up of professionals from end user companies, vendor companies, and integrators working together to develop open, consensus-based documentation.
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Benefits of Standardization
Streamline processes
Improve safety, reliability
Increase efficiency, productivity

13. Standards Published in 2018
NEED: Operational Excellence
SOLUTION: ISA Standards
Standards Published in 2018
ISA , Security for industrial automation and control systems - Part 4-1: Secure product development lifecycle requirements
ISA , Security for industrial automation and control systems - Part 4-2: Technical security requirements for IACS components
ISA , Security for industrial automation and control systems - Part 3-2: Security risk assessment and system design
ISA , Security for industrial automation and control systems - Part 2-4: Requirements for IACS solutions suppliers (IEC adoption)
Most Popular ISA Standards
Standards on cybersecurity, process safety, alarms, HMI, IDM, and enterprise-control integration
All Time Best Selling Standard
ISA 5.1
In 2018, ISA worked to develop several new standards within the series, which is the world’s only consensus based industrial cybersecurity standard. In addition to working on new standards, we continue to see significant interest in our best sellers, which include our safety, alarm management, HMI, and enterprise-control standards. ISA5.1, based on symbols and terminology, remains our all-time best selling standard. Remember, ISA members can view any of these standards at no cost as part of your membership benefits.

14. Standards Under Development
NEED: Operational Excellence
SOLUTION: ISA Standards
Standards Under Development
Several new parts of ISA/IEC (industrial cybersecurity)
Updates to ISA/IEC (functional safety)
Several new parts of ISA95 (enterprise-control integration)
ISA (HMI performance)
ISA106 (procedure automation for continuous process)
Updates to ISA67 (nuclear safety)
Updates to ISA77 (fossil fuel power plants)
ISA96 (valve actuators)
ISA75 (control valves)
ISA112 (SCADA systems)
ISA-RP107 (tip-timing)
In 2019, ISA is working to develop several new standards within the series, which is the world’s only consensus based industrial cybersecurity standard. In addition to working on new standards, we continue to see significant interest in our best sellers, which include our safety, alarm management, HMI, and enterprise-control standards. ISA5.1, based on symbols and terminology, remains our all-time best selling standard. Remember, ISA members can view any of these standards at no cost as part of your membership benefits.

15. ISA Membership: Your Connection to the World of Automation
Membership Challenge: Grow Locally, Impact Globally
Like many professional organizations, ISA has seen a decline in professional members over the last several years, but we made up ground in 2018
In 2019, our goal is to achieve 80% retention of professional members at year-end
Every section has a part to play in retaining and recruiting members
All of ISA’s solutions are accessible to ISA members, and membership is your connection to the automation community. Becoming an ISA Member and leveraging your ISA membership to access high-quality technical content is one of the most cost effective and simple ways to boost your professional development. ISA membership includes discounts on ISA publications, training, and conferences; unlimited downloads of web seminars and technical papers; online viewing of standards, the ability to network with your local geographic section and technical division, and much, much more.
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During the 2019 budget preparation process, the ISA Executive Board issued a challenge to ISA’s sections to help focus their attention on local growth. Like many professional societies, ISA has experienced a decline in professional members over the last several years. Each section is challenged to work on retaining and recruiting members in 2019.

16. Section membership challenge: Call to action!
Tracking tools for Sections
Month-end Section statistics report
Retention and growth percentages; number of members needed to reach the goal
Section rosters – on-demand, all inclusive, clean membership list
Best practices for recruitment and retention
Ask a friend or colleague to join
No membership message is more powerful!
Designate someone in your section to:
Officially welcome each new member into the Section
Contact those in grace to remind them to renew
Contact those that have lapsed to convince them to come back to ISA
Bonus Incentive:
Drawing for all sections that have met specified goals
5 Sections will receive USD 500/each - Drawing in January 2020
Every month, sections will have access to a month-end report that tracks retention and growth metrics, along with the number of new or renewing members needed to meet the goal set by the Executive Board. Section rosters are on-demand reports used by section leaders to conduct business with their members.
As always, committees and staff are continuously developing and sharing best practices in retention and recruitment. Time-tested best practices include personally asking friends or colleagues to join; and identifying members in your section to take on important membership tasks.
Finally, in order to give sections an additional incentive toward meeting these goals, the Society has set aside funds to have a drawing to reward sections who meet the established goal. 5 sections could win USD 500 during a drawing in January, 2020.

17. Join us! Browse ISA’s Resources: www.isa.org
Become an ISA Member:
Renew your ISA Membership:
Join the conversation!
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