Nicholas P. Sands, P.E., is a senior manufacturing technology fellow in DuPont’s Kevlar, Nomex, and Tyvek businesses and the global alarm management leader for DuPont (Email: nicholas.p.sands@dupont.com). He is an International Society of Automation (ISA) Fellow and a past ISA vice president of standards and practices. He is a cochair of the ISA-18 committee on alarm management, a director of the ISA-101 committee on human machine interface, and a director of the ISA-84 committee on safety instrumented systems. Sands earned his BS in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech.