The ISA Water/Wastewater Division prides itself on generating premium technical content. Below is a listing of some of the white papers, presentations, webinars, and conference proceedings that the division has created.
The division also regularly publishes additional technical articles in its quarterly newsletter.
2022 technical webinars
See here: https://isaautomation.isa.org/virtual-events-program
June 14, 2022 – Cyber Security for Water/Wastewater Facilities
Tues, Aug 16, 2022 – Digital Transformation
Tues, Sept 27, 2022 – Personnel Development, Standards & Certifications
2022 WWID newsletter technical articles
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2021 technical webinars
June 30, 2021 – How to Get the Digital Transformation Right (This Time) – Lessons from Three Decades in the Oil and Gas Industry
Jul 20, 2021 – Optimizing the Industry Through Data Analytics, Emerging Technologies and Digital Transformation
Jul 22, 2021 – Successfully Implementing Digital Twin Technology
Aug 3, 2021 – Panel Discussion: Industrial Cybersecurity in the Power/Water Industries
2021 WWID Newsletter technical articles
Spring 2021 issue
The Five Steps of Troubleshooting
By Jeff Miller, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Cloud-Hosted Web-Based Dashboards How the Water & Wastewater Industry can use Self-Service Industrial Analytics to Improve Treatment Processes By Sam Vijay and Bob Monahan, TrendMiner
Winter 2021 issue
How Can We Improve Operator Trust in PID Controllers? – pdf
By Dan Warren, Michel Ruel, Peter Morgan, Nick Sands, Pat Dixon and Greg McMillan
Tips on Choosing Appropriate E-Stop Technology for your Machine Safety Applications – pdf
Pamela Horbacovsky, OMRON
Primer on Machine Safety E-Stop Categories – pdf
By Graham Nasby, City of Guelph Water Services
Automated Mass-Conversion of Code when Migrating Industrial Controller Platforms – pdf
By James Redmond, Schneider Electric
ISA112 SCADA Systems Standard: The Document Begins to Take Shape – pdf
By Graham Nasby, ISA112 standards committee co-chair
2020 WWID Webinars
July 28, 2020 – Technical Webinar
Taking Action on Cyber Security Risks in the Water Sector – Kevin Morley, AWWA
more details & free registration
Sept 22, 2020 – Technical Webinar
Control System Cyber Security for Water/Power Utilities – Jon Grant, CDM Smith
more details & free registration
WEFTEC 2020 – Fall 2020
-joint ISA WWID & WEF AIT committee cybersecurity session cancelled due to global covid-19 pandemic
2020 ISA Energy & Water Automation Conference
San Antonio, Texas, USA – Aug 5-6, 2020
-cancelled due to global covid-19 pandemic
2020 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2020 issue
Trust and Care of SCADA Systems
By Jeff Miller, North East Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD)
Path to Situational Awareness HMI
By John Hacker, Signature Automation
Impact of ISA101 HMI Design Standard
By Maurice Wilkins, Yokogawa
Declare Freedom from Legacy Control Systems
By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact USA
New Control System and HMI Screens for a Municipal Well
By Graham Nasby, City of Guelph Water Services
Summer 2020 issue
SCADA System Development Block Diagrams A Tool for Visualizing SCADA Workflow
By Brian Mast, Copper Bell Consulting LLC
ISA112 SCADA Systems Lifecycle Released
By Graham Nasby, City of Guelph Water Services
Why Engineers are So Against Derivative Action in PID Tuning
By Gregory McMillan
Open Process Automation: From Concept to Reality
By Mohan Kalyanaraman, Don Bartusiak, Bradley G. Houk, Steve Bitar, David DeBari – ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Spring 2020 issue
The Future of Automation is… OPEN! – Introducing the OPAS 2.0 Standard
By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact USA
System Availability for SCADA Systems
By Jason Little, Regional Municipality of Peel and Graham Nasby, City of Guelph Water Services
2019 ISA Energy & Water Automation Conference
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 7-9, 2019
26 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2019 – Sept 21-25 in Chicago
“Cybersecurity – It’s more than just Compliance! – Part 1 (Hardware), 2 (software) and 3 (integration)”
The joint ISA-WEF collaboration consisted of three sessions:
- Cybersecurity Part 1: Hardware Perspectives
Mon Sept 22, 2019 – 5-6pm – Mobile Center Theater
Speakers: Pavol Segedy (HDR Inc.), Rick Hidalgo (Signature Automation), David Brearley (HDR Inc.), Don Dickinson (Phoenix Contact USA) - Cybersecurity Part 2: Software Perspectives
Tues Sept 23, 2019 – 5-6pm – Mobile Center Theater
Speakers: Pavol Segedy (HDR Inc.), Rick Hidalgo (Signature Automation), David Brearley (HDR Inc.), Don Dickinson (Phoenix Contact USA) - Cybersecurity Part 3: Bringing it all together
Wed, Sept 24, 2019 – 1-2pm – Innovation Pavilion
Speakers: Pavol Segedy (HDR Inc.), Rick Hidalgo (Signature Automation), David Brearley (HDR Inc.), Don Dickinson (Phoenix Contact USA)
2019 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2019/Winter 2020 issue
Challenges of being an I&C Lead Engineer: One Man’s Opinion
By Mike Laspisa
Leadership Article – ISA Volunteering Lessons Learned
By Kim Keaveny, 2016 ISA Society President
Spring/Summer 2019 issue
ISA112 SCADA Systems standards committee holds meeting on May 17, 2019
By Graham Nasby, ISA112 committee co-chair
America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018: What does it mean for Water Utilities? How can Automation Professionals Help?
By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact
Winter 2019 issue
Training Your Staff on a Limited Budget
By Kevin Patel, PE, Signature Automation
ISA112 SCADA Standards Committee Releases draft SCADA System Workflows & Architecture Diagrams
By Graham Nasby, ISA112 Committee Co-chair
2018 Technical Webinars
June 8, 2018 – Webinar Topic: Control Room Design
Presenter: Ian Nimmo, MP4 File, Slides (PDF) – info
June 20, 2018 – Webinar Topic: Alarms & Operator Intervention – A Flawed Safety Layer
Presenter: Steve Maddox, MP4 File, Slides (PDF) – info
2018 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Washington DC (Bethesda, Maryland), USA – Aug 7-9, 2019
31 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2018 – Oct 1-3 in New Orleans
“Best of ISA: Operational Improvements Through Automation and Technology”
Monday, Oct 1, 2018 from 1:30-5:00pm
This year’s joint ISA-WEF technical session speakers were as follows:
- Extracting Value from Data in Real-time Oliver Schraa – inCTRL Solutions Inc.
By Christian Hübner – ifak e.V., Nico Suchold – ifak e.V., Leiv Rieger, PhD, P.Eng. – inCTRL Solutions Inc., Ivan Miletic – inCTRL Solutions Inc. - SCADA + Integrated Asset Management = Cost Savings
By Alan Hudson – Trihedral Engineering - Cloud-Based SCADA Solution to Monitor Storm Water Pumping
By G. Mike Stoup, PE – McKim & Creed, Mark Jones, PE – Department of Public Works, City of Virginia Beach. Jason Davis, PE – McKim & Creed
2018 WWID Newsletters
Fall/December 2018 issue
Using Master Format Construction Specifications for SCADA Projects
By Graham Nasby, OWWA Automation Committee
Spring/Summer 2018 issue
Using DNP3 Protocol for Backup Store and Forward Data-Logging at Guelph Water
By Kelly Gribbons, Graham Nasby, and Daniel Leskovec
Winter 2018 issue
Rounding Errors & Flow Totalization: What PLC Programmers need to know about with Floating-Point arithmetic errors
By Francisco Alcala, PE, CDM Smith, and Inaki Zuloaga, IZI Technology LLC
2017 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 8-10, 2017
36 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2017 – Oct 2-4 in Chicago
Special Session “SCADA Systems: Protecting your Investment”
Tues, Oct 3, 2017 – Room S502a – 3:30 to5:00pm
- 1. Alarm Management and Reliable Architecture Needed for Utility-Wide SCADA Systems: Achieving Effectiveness, High Availability, Subsystem Autonomy, and Centralized Administration
By Alan Hudson, VTScada by Trihedral Engineering - Cybersecurity: Going Beyond Protection
By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact - System-Wide SCADA Documentation To Prepare for Disaster Recovery
By Mike Stoup, McKim & Creed - Moderators:
- Kevin Patel (Signature Automation), Director, ISA Water/Wastewater Division, International Society of Automation
- Deborah Houdeshell (Hazen and Sawyer), WEF Automation and Information Technology (AIT) Committee, Water Environment Federation
2017 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2017 issue
Tricks of the Trade: SCADA Development Shortcuts: Always be on the lookout for Time-Saving techniques
By Shawn Hustins and Graham Nasby
Spring/Summer 2017 issue
Planning Spare I/O for Fieldbus Networks: Active spare in Fieldbus Network what does it mean?
By Francisco Alcala, CDM Smith
Winter 2017 issue
ISA112 SCADA Standards Committee
By Ryan Costello, NLS Engineering & ISA112 member
Best Practices – Cut Over Strategies
By Hunter Vegas and Marsha Wisely
2016 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 2-4, 2016
32 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2016 – Sept 24-28 in New Orleans
“Practical Cyber Security for SCADA and Operations”
Mon, Sept 26, 2016 – Room 244 – 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Three speakers (in order, 30 minutes each):
- Looking for Trouble on OT Networks: Tools and Techniques to Identify Threats to ICS Communications
By Bryan L Singer, CISSP, CAP, Kenexis - No compromises for secure SCADA Communications – even over 3rd Party Networks
Norm Anderson, P.E., Polk County – Utilities Division, and Sokha Hay, Tempered Networks - First – Make A Business Case For Cybersecurity
By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact - Moderators:
- Tom DeLaura, Past Chair, WEF Automation and Information Technology Committee
- Pavol Segedy, General Symposium Chair, ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium, International Society of Automation
2016 WWID Newsletters
Fall/December 2016
Quo Vadis Water Treatment – Where It Comes from, Where It Goes
By Matthias Kremer, JUMO GmbH & Co
Spring/Summer 20216
DNP3 Communications for Water and Wastewater Applications
By Philip Aubin, Schneider Electric
Winter 2016
Density Meters in Wastewater Treatment Challenges in Wastewater Treatment
By Zachary Wagner, MPV
2015 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 4-6, 2015
35 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2015 – Sept 28-30 in Chicago
“High Performance HMIs and Alarm Management Technical Session”
2015 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2015
Selecting the Right Fiber Optic Cable for Water/Wastewater Plant Applications
By Kyle Mrkva, Belden
Spring/Summer 2015
Profibus and ProfiNET Troubleshooting
By Carl Henning
Winter 2015
Sequential Function Chart Programming: Processing sequential and parallel operations based on time or events
By Charles M. Fialkowski, Siemens Process Automation
2014 Technical Webinars
March 24, 2014 webinar – “Cellular Telemetry – Yet another Communication Option in Our Toolbox.” – info
2014 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – 4-7, 2014
30 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2014 – Sept 29-Oct 1 in New Orleans
“Highlights from the ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium”
2014 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2014
Practical Cybersecurity Guidance for Water Utilities
By Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact
Summer 2014
The Differences between VFDs and Soft Starts for Motor Control
Edited by Steve Batson, Rockwell Automation
Spring 2014
Protecting Water/Wastewater Systems with Deep Packet Inspection
By Eric Byres, Belden Inc.
Winter 2014
Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Assets in Municipal Water Systems
Edited by Steve Batson, Rockwell Automation
2013 Technical Webinars
Mar 6, 2017 Webinar: Cyber Security – Application to the Water Sector – slides/recording
2013 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 6-8, 2013
42 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2013 – Oct 5-9 in Chicago
“Highlights from the ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium”
2013 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2013
Grounding Introduction
By Derrick Stableford MIET, LCGI, EngTech, Associated Engineering
Improving Reliability of Wireless SCADA Systems
By Joel J. John, CDM Smith
Spring/Summer 2013
Defining Security in the World of Water
By Grant Van Hemert, Schneider Electric
Interview with Celine Hyer, Last year’s WWAC2012 keynote speaker
By Graham Nasby
Winter 2013
Where the Acronym “PLC” Originate?
By Jeremy Pollard, Guest Columnist
Energy Savings with VFDs and Pumps
Edited by Steve Batson, Rockwell Automation
2012 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 7-9, 2012
30 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
WEFTEC 2012 – Sept 29-Oct 1 in New Orleans
“Highlights of the ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium”
2012 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2012
Q&A Spotlight Interview with Jon DiPietro
By Graham Nasby
Energy Optimization for Water Treatment and Distribution
By Norman Anderson, PE and P.Y. Keskar, PhD, PE
Motion Detection Means Protection
By Vijay Acharya, Siemens Americas
Summer 2012
Allowing Your HMI to Provide Insight Instead of Data
By Kevin Patel, Signature Automation
Overview ISA100 Wireless Systems for Automation and its First Standard – ISA100.11a for Wireless Sensor Network
Penny Chen, Ph.D. Yokogawa Corporate of America
Oakville South West Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade
By Graham Nasby, Mike Di Iorio, Pete Samson and Stan Spencer
What Becomes a Leader?
By Henry DeVries
Spring 2012
Q&A Spotlight Interview with Steve Valdez
By Graham Nasby
Challenges When Designing an Effective Harmonic Mitigation System for your Variable Frequency Drive
By Al Archambault, Mirus International
Tips on Integrating Packaged Equipment into Plant SCADA Systems
By Todd Nydam, JWC Environmental LLC & Graham Nasby, Eramosa Engineering Inc.
Winter 2012
Q&A Spotlight Interview with Joe Provenzano
By Graham Nasby
Lowell, MA – Wastewater Plant Upgrades
By Jon Grant, PE, Woodard & Curran
Can IT strategies solve the Automation Cyber Security problem?
By Grant Van Hemert PE, Schneider Electric
Municipal Challenges and the Importance of Advanced Automation Solutions
By Doug Johnson, Emerson Process Management
United Water New Jersey -SCADA Project
By Keith Kolkebeck
2011 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
St. Louis, Missouri, USA – June 22-23, 2011
13 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
2011 WWID Newsletters
Fall 2011
Q&A Spotlight Interview with Wally Ingham
By Graham Nasby
Plant Automation Spotlight: Thunder Bay Waterworks
By Ellen Fussell Policastro
Reducing Fluid Surges (“Hammering”) in a Pipe System using Pump Control
Edited by Steve D. Batson, Rockwell Automation
TOP TEN Reasons for Unsuccessful SCADA System Integrations.
By Glenn Corvigno, PE, Aaron Associates
Summer 2011
Q&A Spot Light Interview with Henry “Hank” Hegner
By Graham Nasby
Establishing a Successful Water/Wastewater Commissioning Program
Richard Birdsell, PE and Mike Puccio, PE, Orange County Sanitation District
Whitecourt Water Treatment Plant Upgrade
By Wally Ingham, P.Eng., Stantec
2010 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 4-6, 2010
18 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
2010 Newsletters
Summer 2010
Build Your Own Current Simulator
by Michael Fedenyszen
Whitecourt Water Treatment Plant Upgrade
By Wally Ingham, P.Eng., Stantec
Winter 2010
Unique Flow Measurement Challenges for Large UV Systems
By Phil Sanders – Clark County Water Reclamation District, Guy Miller & John Trofatter – Accusonic Technologies
2009 ISA Water/Wastewater & Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 4-6, 2009
16 papers. Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
2009 Newsletters
Summer 2009
Economy Pumping: Asset Management for Energy Savings
By Valentine Sonnier
3rd Annual ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 4-6, 2008
Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
2nd ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 4-7, 2007
Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
Note: There was no water/wastewater symposiums held in 2004, 2005 or 2006.
1st ISA Water/Wastewater Instrumentation Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA – Aug 20-21, 2003
Refer to ISA Technical Paper Archive
2002 Newsletter
Spring 2002
Understanding Flowmeter Specifications
By John Davis
A PC-based SCAD System for a Wastewater Treatment Plant
By Robert J. Dusza, Jr, Town of Manchester Water and Sewer Division
2021 Newsletter
Summer 2001
Application Considerations for Radar Level Devices
by Steve J Marrano, Hazen and Sawyer