Author Archives: John Rinaldi
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
Is The Human Body Circulatory System Like an Ethernet Network?
I’m a scuba diver and always anxious to get to a warm weather location with [...]
Nov
A Better Way to EtherNet/IP or PROFINET
Manufacturers love EtherNet/IP and PROFINET. Those industrial communication protocols simplify everything for them. It’s almost [...]
Oct
VLAN Confusion
I have maintained for a long time that it is hard to do IT/OT conversion [...]
Aug
OPC UA – Love at First Sight
In 2011, I discovered OPC UA. It was love at first sight. I was totally [...]
Jul
