The Mining & Metals Industries Division (MMID) is one of ISA Technical Divisions. Its goal is to support and advance its members who are working and/or interested in the mining and metal industries. MMID focuses on leveraging automation functionality and technology solution to enhance mining processes and metal production.

Who is best served by this division? Professionals concerned with economically and environmentally sound practices as related to the extraction of metal ores, coal, cement, sand, gravel, and other minerals-and the handling, separation, processing, fabrication, related processes, and research and development for the production of finished mineral or metal products. It also covers the Iron and Steel Making industry, Aluminum Processing and other light metals and the production and manufacturing of metals products.

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  • Glad to have you in the automation community, A-Fu! Looking forward to collaborating with you at ISA Taiwan Section. ------------------------------ Yao Chou Chan ISA Taiwan Section joseph.chan@lab4learn.com Taipei, Taiwan ------------------------------

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    Hello Everyone, I'm Afu, and I live in Taiwan. I'm excited to be part of this community. I currently work at Delta Electronics Industrial Automation BG, where I'm responsible for product cybersecurity strategy and cybersecurity standard certification. ------------------------------ ...

  • Hello everyone, I'm Vishakh P, currently working as a DCS Technician at Kuwait Oil Company with 10 years of experience in industrial control systems (DCS, SCADA, ESD, PLCs) . My background is in Process Control Instrumentation , and I have a keen interest in ICS/OT cybersecurity ...

  • Hi Eric, That's a good idea. Doing now. Hi @Ian Verhappen and @Greg Lehmann , what are the latest trends in SCADA system development, and how do they address the needs of modern industrial operations? ------------------------------ Warm regards, Carlos Mandolesi Technical ...

  • Thanks Jonas, very interesting. I'm wondering what are the requirements to consider a Data Diode as a real one. I know there are phisical devices that blocks the data flow in one of the directions but not sure if those diodes supports all the TCP protocols as OPC-UA. On the other ...

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