Research Triangle Park, NC (15 June 2010) – The ISA100 Wireless Compliance 
Institute (WCI) announced that Yamatake Corporation has joined the WCI Governing 
Board signaling support for the ISA100 Industrial Wireless Standard. Yamatake’s global 
leadership in process automation systems and field instruments will be critical in 
continuing the adoption of the ISA100 wireless communications standards around the 
world.

As a WCI board member, Yamatake joins an impressive list of leading companies 
dedicated to providing the leadership needed for a global rollout of an industrial wireless 
standard. The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute membership represents a 
cross-section of user and supplier organizations from the manufacturing and automation 
controls community, including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Yokogawa, Yamatake, GE, 
Fuji Electric and Honeywell.

“Yamatake brings a wealth of expertise in digital field solutions, and its knowledge of 
the Asia Pacific region will be invaluable to WCI for meeting customers’ needs and 
promoting the adoption of the ISA100 standards  around the world,” said Andre Ristaino, 
managing director, ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute.

The ISA100 family of open standards is a reliable, flexible, and scalable communications 
protocol that helps streamline and optimize the integration of automation applications for 
industrial processes. This protocol makes it easier for multi-vendor systems and 
equipment to communicate and work together.

The ISA100.11a industrial wireless networking standard is the first in the ISA100 family 
of standards. This mesh standard protocol helps supplier companies build interoperable 
wireless automation control products. As a result, manufacturing and processing plants 
are able to create, modify, and optimize beginning-to-end operations quickly, 
cost-effectively, and seamlessly.

Future ISA100 standards will include support for backhaul functionality, factory 
automation, and other key-use cases. Details on the approved standard, the ISA100 
roadmap, and use-case presentations are available at www.isa.org/ISA100