Standards Committee Work

I enjoy working with experts in their field to develop, update and maintain published consensus-based standards documents. I find consensus-based standards work is very rewarding as you get the opportunity to share ideas and best practices with the top experts in their area of expertise.

Standards committee work is a long-term endeavour. It often takes 3-5 years (or more) to develop a good high-quality consensus-based technical standard or technical report. There are many benefits of using published standards. The main one is that by using published standards you can avoid having to do custom-design-work by using best practices that have been developed by strong committees of experts that has been subjected to a rigourous peer-review process.

Here is a list of the committees I am currently actively involved with:

• ISA112 SCADA Systems, Co-chair - International Society of Automation
• ISA18 Alarm Management, Voting Member
• ISA101 HMI Design - Human Machine Interfaces, Voting Member
• ISA105 Commissioning
• Standards and Practices Board, International Society of Automation (ISA)
• ISA99 Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems
• CSA P125: Operational Technology Functional Safety and Security - Canadian Standards Association
• IEC TC65/65A/WG15: Industrial Process Measurement, Control and Automation - System Aspects - Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries - info - International Electrotechnical Commission
• IEC TC65/65A/WG19: Industrial Process Measurement, Control and Automation - System Aspects - Human-Machine Interfaces for Process Automation Systems - info
• SCC/IEC TC65/65A: Canadian Mirror Committee for IEC-TC65/65A: Industrial Process Measurement, Control and Automation - Standards Council of Canada
• AWWA Cybersecurity Sub-Committee - Amercian Water Works Association
• WEF Automation and Information Technology Committee - Water Environment Federation
• OWWA Automation Committee - Ontario Waterworks Association (Ontario, Canada)

Standards & Technical Reports (in progress)

CAN/CSA-IEC 62443-2-4:17 "Security for industrial automation and control systems - Part 2-4: Security program requirements for IACS service providers". Adoption of IEC-62443-4-1 as a national CSA standard. Via CSA technical committee P125: Operational Functional Safety and Security, ,Canadian Standards Association.

CSA/IEC-62443-4-1: "Security for industrial automation and control systems - Part 4-1: Secure product development lifecycle requirements". Adoption of IEC-62443-4-2 as a national CSA standard. Via CSA technical committee P125: Operational Functional Safety and Security, Canadian Standards Association.

ISA-112: "SCADA Systems Standards." New ISA Standard for SCADA Systems. Lead Editor and co-chair. Started in Fall 2016. Expected publication in 2022. (info)

ISA-101-TR1: "HMI Philosophy." Co-author. Expected publication in 2022. (info)

ISA-18-TR8: "Management of Notifications other than Alarms." Co-author. Expected publication in 2021. (info)

ISA-18.1: "Annunciator Sequences and Alarms." Major update to the existing 1979 (R2004) standard. Co-author. To be published in 2021. (info)

MECP Technical Bulletin: "Alterations for SCADA Systems in Municipal Residental Systems". Member of the Ontario Water Works Association: Automation Committee who is developing this technical bulletin jointly with the Drinking Water Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP). Project has been underway since 2018. Expected publication by the MECP in 2021/2022.

MECP Technical Bulletin: "SCADA Data Collection Best Pratices". Member of the Ontario Water Works Association: Automation Committee who is developing this technical bulletin jointly with the Drinking Water Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP). Project has been underway since 2019. Expected publication by the MECP in 2021/2022.

Standards & Technical Reports:

ISA-TR101.02-2019: "HMI Usability and Performance." Techncial Report, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-TR18.2.1-2018: "Alarm Philosophy." Technical Report, International Society of Automation, Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-TR18.2.2-2018: "Alarm Identification and Rationalization." Technical Report, International Society of Automation, Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-TR18.2.7-2017: "Applying Alarm Management when Utilizing Packaged Systems." International Society of Automation. Lead Editor and committee co-chair. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-RP105.00.01-2017: "Management of a Calibration Program for Industrial Automation and Control Systems." Recommended Practice, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ANSI/ISA-18.02-2016: "Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries." Standard, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ANSI/ISA-101.01-2015: "Human Machine Interfaces for Process Automation Systems." Standard, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-TR18.2.3-2015: "Basic Alarm Design." Technical Report, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-TR18.2.6-2012: "Alarm Design for Batch and Discrete Processes." Technical Report, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)

ISA-TR18.2.4-2012: "Advanced and Enhanced Alarm Methods." Technical Report, International Society of Automation. Co-author. (info, preview, buy-copy)