Author Archives: John Rinaldi
Stop Wasting ControlLogix Slots: A Smarter Way to Ingest ASCII Data
An Efficient and Effective Alternative to the MVI56E-GSC or 5069-SERIAL Summary: To ingest ASCII data [...]
Dec
Adding SQL to the RTConnect A-B PLC Historian: What It Means for Factory Data
One of the very interesting new features of the RTConnect A-B PLC Historian is SQL. [...]
Dec
IEC 62443 and Secure Software Development
Life in the 2020s is in many ways more complicated than ever. Technology touches us [...]
Dec
Edge to Cloud: When and How to Forward Historian Data to the Cloud
The RTA A-B PLC Historian gives you full control of production data at the edge. [...]
Dec
Why Industrial Networks Can’t Agree on Terms
Every industry has its own language. Meteorologists have haboobs (massive dust storms), horse racing has [...]
Dec
Does Your Factory Floor Historian Have the Seven Indispensable Power Features That Actually Enable Real-Time Data Insight?
Get The Essential Historian Checklist And Learn That You Don’t Need More Data, You Need [...]
Nov
OPC UA 2025
I was one of the early proponents of OPC UA. I started studying, talking and [...]
May
OPC UA For Moving Factory Floor Data
What’s the best way to move factory floor data to Enterprise and Cloud applications? The [...]
May
Data Plumbing with OPC UA
I’ve long considered our company to be data plumbers. It’s a silly analogy, but we [...]
Apr
Data Historian vs Data Logger
People in automation misuse words all the time and I am as guilty as anyone. [...]
Jan
