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Industrial Automation & Control Organizations to Join
Following are some of the professional organizations for automation and control industry. They are all great places to find technical and non technical resources in the automation industry as well network with other engineers in the business.
ISA – International Society of Automation
Website: www.isa.org
Membership Cost: $100 / Year
ISA is a non profit technical society established in 1945. It provides “access to technical information, professional development resources, and opportunities to network with other automation professionals.”
Some of the benefits of becoming a member at ISA are
- Affiliation with an ISA section
- Subscription to the monthly ISA journal InTech
- Free admission to ISA’s annual trade show
- Downloading ISA standards, recommended practices, and technical papers at no extra charge
- Reduced prices for ISA products, events, and training courses
ISA also has a what it calls “Sections” where members meet (in groups of 30 or more) meet locally to network and listen to technical or vendor presentations.
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Website: www.ieee.org
Membership Cost: $175/ Year
IEEE is the largest association for Electrical engineers. If you’ve never heard of IEEE you should be worried. IEEE is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It was established in 1963 and produces 30% of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields.
In my experience IEEE has been mostly a research source to refer to for technical and academic reasons rather than networking with other engineers in the workforce.
SME – Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Website: www.sme.org
Membership Cost: $125/ Year
SME is a non profit organization that connects manufacturing practitioners to each other, to the latest technology and the most up-to-date processes spanning all manufacturing industries and disciplines. SME was originally founded in 1932.
MCA – Motion Control Association
Website: www.motioncontrolonline.org
Membership Cost: Ranges from $350 / Year to $2300 / Year
Direct quote from MCA’s website:
The Motion Control Association (MCA) is a global not-for-profit trade group dedicated to promoting the understanding and use of motion control technologies and developing business opportunities for mechanical and electronic (mechatronics) motion control companies.
MCA is part of the Automation Technologies Council, an umbrella group with over thirty years experience serving global automation companies involved in robotics.
MCA has different membership plans for suppliers (different prices for different sizes), distributors, affiliates (universities, government agencies, etc), and user membership (for internal purposes only). You can read more about all of these options here.
RIA – Robotic Industries Association
Website: www.robotics.org
Membership Cost: Ranges from $150 / Year to $10,000 / Year
If you are looking for information on industrial robotics this is the organization for you to join. RIA was founded in 1974 and is the only trade group in North America organized specifically to serve the robotics industry.
Similar to other organizations Robotics Industries Association (RIA) also has many different membership options. Read more about all of them by clicking here.
AIA – Automated Imaging Association
Website: www.machinevisiononline.org
Membership Cost: From $600 / Year to $2500 / Year
Automated Imaging Association (AIA) is the world’s largest machine vision trade.
AIA also has different membership options. Read more about them here.
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