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We can certainly print up standards with, say, Fisher-Rosemount's name on them...if FRCO wants to pay for it. Or they can license the thing and print them themselves. We can do that.
But Al, it isn't true to say the companies already support the lions' share of standards activities.
In the first place, it isn't true. ISA's other revenues do that, to something like 65% of the support costs. In the second place, company sponsorship is so far down that it is fair to
say that over 50% of the people involved in standards work are doing so _despite_ the _un_support they receive from their companies.
Companies do not support ISA. Some companies advertise in ISA publications. Most instrument companies do not support their personnel in ISA activities. Most user companies are not supporting ISA either.
I give you an example.
The ISA Section in Austin, Tx, (the Bluebonnet Section) went dormant twice during the 1980's. Why is this an example of company non-support? Look at who else is in Austin. FRCO world headquarters, National INstruments, Weed
Instruments, AMP connectors, CarrollTouch, Danaher Controls, Schlumberger, TN/KSI and ThermoElectron Instrument Division, Antx, Motorola, IBM, The University of Texas, and the JJ Pickle Research Institute, Sematech, and the
Fieldbus Foundation. There are actually more instrument companies and large users than that...I just stopped naming names.
How many ISA members does it take to support a section? How many potential members are there in the Austin area, who do not belong because their
companies do not pay for it? Let alone sponsor them in time-consuming and labor-intensive standards activities.
Walt Boyes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Pawlowski [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Free ISA Standards
>
> I wonder if any equipment manufacturers/suppliers would be willing to
> provide free copies of ISA standards for free if they were allowed a
> non-exclusive distribution license. Seems like it could work similarly to
> distribution by ISP's, and others, of "freeware". ISA might even
> be able to
> structure some type of deal to cover (at least partially) lost sales
> income. Certainly, ISA's "publication" expense would be
> minimized. Many of
> the companies already support the lion's share of the standard process
> anyway by providing employee resources.
But Al, it isn't true to say the companies already support the lions' share of standards activities.
In the first place, it isn't true. ISA's other revenues do that, to something like 65% of the support costs. In the second place, company sponsorship is so far down that it is fair to
say that over 50% of the people involved in standards work are doing so _despite_ the _un_support they receive from their companies.
Companies do not support ISA. Some companies advertise in ISA publications. Most instrument companies do not support their personnel in ISA activities. Most user companies are not supporting ISA either.
I give you an example.
The ISA Section in Austin, Tx, (the Bluebonnet Section) went dormant twice during the 1980's. Why is this an example of company non-support? Look at who else is in Austin. FRCO world headquarters, National INstruments, Weed
Instruments, AMP connectors, CarrollTouch, Danaher Controls, Schlumberger, TN/KSI and ThermoElectron Instrument Division, Antx, Motorola, IBM, The University of Texas, and the JJ Pickle Research Institute, Sematech, and the
Fieldbus Foundation. There are actually more instrument companies and large users than that...I just stopped naming names.
How many ISA members does it take to support a section? How many potential members are there in the Austin area, who do not belong because their
companies do not pay for it? Let alone sponsor them in time-consuming and labor-intensive standards activities.
Walt Boyes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Pawlowski [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Free ISA Standards
>
> I wonder if any equipment manufacturers/suppliers would be willing to
> provide free copies of ISA standards for free if they were allowed a
> non-exclusive distribution license. Seems like it could work similarly to
> distribution by ISP's, and others, of "freeware". ISA might even
> be able to
> structure some type of deal to cover (at least partially) lost sales
> income. Certainly, ISA's "publication" expense would be
> minimized. Many of
> the companies already support the lion's share of the standard process
> anyway by providing employee resources.