Category Archives: RTA’s Blog
Driving Manufacturing Insights from AI
Ever wonder what a data model actually is? It’s one of those terms that mean [...]
Nov
What Engineers Get Wrong About IEC 61850
I’ve spent a lot of years helping people move data around factory floors. It started [...]
Nov
Forbes Makes Me A Contributing Author?
In a decision that may cause them to reconsider their membership standards, the Forbes Technology [...]
Oct
Why It’s Time to Unbundle OPC UA for Industrial AI
Every so often I have to eat my words in public, and today it’s OPC [...]
Oct
Intermittent Failures: The Reason Control Engineers Have Gray Hair (And How Historians Help)
My life on the factory floor consisted of working at two massive consumer products companies, [...]
Sep
Securing Modbus Networks: 12 Best Practices for OT & Industrial Cybersecurity
Modbus was designed in 1979 with no built-in security, no authentication, no encryption and no [...]
Sep
How a Machine-level Historian Quickly Fixes PLC Issues Without IT Infrastructure or Recurring Cost
It’s 2:07am. Third shift is running normally. There are no critical alarms and no obvious [...]
Aug
The Sticker Price Illusion: The True Cost of a Protocol Gateway
I’ve been in the gateway business for more than twenty years and there is one [...]
Aug
Manufacturing AI is Only as Smart as the Data It Can Reach
I’ve been around a long time, and I can tell you that manufacturing AI is [...]
Jul
