Nov 14, 2024 5:41:38 PM | ISA standards ISA Releases Update to Widely-Used 5.1 Standard

ISA updates the ANSI/ISA-5.1 standard, enhancing readability and adding new symbols to better depict instrumentation and control functions in process industries.

ISA has published a new update of its most widely used standard, the internationally recognized ANSI/ISA-5.1, Instrumentation and Control Symbols and IdentificationISA-5.1 establishes a uniform means of depicting and identifying instrumentation and control functions used for measurement, monitoring and control in the process industries.

The 2024 revision of this standard changed the title from Instrumentation Symbols and Identification to Instrumentation and Control Symbols and Identification to emphasize that symbols for control are included. In addition, improvements have been made to the standards' readability, as well as the addition of new symbols, recognition of new automation technology, reference sections and the loop instrument diagrams symbol table.

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Allison Rogers

Written By: Allison Rogers

Allison Rogers is the marketing specialist for ISA.