Military veterans in industrial automation

摘要

As Chief Editor of InTech magazine and also Automation.com, a subsidiary of ISA, I go to a lot of conferences. I get to meet ISA members and potential members, users of ISA standards, and other professionals active in the art, science, and challenge of industrial automation. Whether it's an "I'll never retire!" systems integrator on his fourth or fifth industrial-adjacent career or a new graduate of a control engineering program looking to find his place, I love talking to people about how they got into automation. That's because industrial automation professionals are a rare breed--part architect or auto mechanic, part physics professor or lab rat, part electrician and computer scientist.