A profession in transition: Steve Huffman and the angst of the word "automation"
The unexpected rebuff of the ISA Executive Board by the Council of Society Delegates perhaps should not have been unexpected at all. The fact is, the entire profession is in transition. Those of us who grew up on the field instrumentation and control systems side of the process industries are still not entirely used to the breadth and depth of the field of automation, combining as it does all the facets of instrumentation, control, test and measurement, analysis, and computer aided manufacturing...