ISA Documentation Standards and User Resources for Industrial Automation and Control Systems The new ISA Documentation Standards and User Resources for Industrial Automation and Control Systems CD-ROM offers the widely used ISA documentation standards and technical reports, as well as several best-selling reference books. This comprehensive CD-ROM also includes the Automation, Systems, and Instrumentation Dictionary, as well as chapters on “Process Instrumentation” and “Control System Documentation” from A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge, 2nd Edition.

Format: CD-ROM

ISBN: 978-0-9791330-9-1 Member: $249.00; List: $599.00 www.isa.org/documentationresource

Maintainability & Maintenance
Management, 4th Edition

Joseph D. Patton, Jr.

This book emphasizes the concepts of preventive, predictive, and reliability-based total maintenance, as well as total quality management and continuous improvement. This newly revised comprehensive version provides an in-depth look at new technological advances and the cost ad-vantages of investing in maintainability. Topics covered in this book include maintainability program planning and management; system engineering of reliability, availability, and maintainability; configuration management; and maintainability process. This book serves as a flexible text and reference for engineers, product planners, designers, and others concerned with the practice of maintainability and maintenance.

Format: Softbound Book – 2005 ISBN: 978-1-55617-944-0 Length: 450 pages; Weight: 2 lbs. Member: $89.00; List: $99.00 www.isa.org/maintainability

Models Unleashed: Virtual Plant and Model
Predictive Control Applications

Gregory K. McMillan and Robert A. Cameron Building on the knowledge and the goals of the best-selling book, Advanced Control Unleashed, this portable pocket guide goes beyond theoretical concepts and provides new insight into the implementation practices after the objectives have been defined and the technology decisions have been made. The authors share their expertise on the concepts, procedures, and examples needed to construct and apply different models through the use of “ state-of-the-art” software for simulation and model predictive control. Included is a website link that permits downloading Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint files.

Format: Softbound Book – 2004 ISBN: 978-1-55617-857-3 Length: 165 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $49.00; List: $59.00 www.isa.org/modelsunleashed

Out of the Barn

Dick Morley

This book, authored by PLC inventor Dick Morley, covers floor level control systems; industrial computing: the camel has the tent; software: indispensable exasperation; managing manufacturing: multi-tasking personified; enhancing corporate wealth; global reports; evaluating entrepreneurship; and we have met the enemy: they is us!

Format: Softbound Book – 2003 ISBN: 978-1-55617-822-1 Length: 150 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $20.00; List: $20.00 www.isa.org/barn