From ISA Past President Kim Miller-Dunn:

 This was sent to the Automation Federation board by Mike Marlowe, its director...

ISA President Kim Miller-Dunn has sent an open letter to every ISA member she could find asking for their support of the proposed name change from ISA, the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society to the International Society of Automation.

Taking my cue from comments made by Bela Liptak over twenty years ago, I, among others, proposed this as the permanent name of ISA well over 10 years ago. It is time that we resolved this and joined the 21st century world of manufacturing.

After a gangbusters start yesterday with over 40 people attending the pre-conference short courses taught by me, John Kuensler of ARC and Jim Geisman who is one of the two leading gurus of pricing for technology products, and a terrific keynote by Julie Fraser, Principal Industry Analyst from Cambashi, Inc.

Julie's talk was "Bridging the Engineering-IT Divide" and she's agreed to produce an article for Control magazine on the subject.