Category Archives: RTA’s Blog
Why Integrating Legacy Modbus RTU Is Often a “Kitchen Sink” of Struggle
The Background: An Integrator Struggling to Update Industrial Kitchens An integrator is facing his first [...]
Mar
The RTA Difference: Why Control Engineers Trust RTA as Their Protocol Gateway Supplier
When it comes to moving factory floor data, control engineers choose Real Time Automation (RTA) [...]
Feb
How to Move ASCII Data to an Allen-Bradley PLC Without Custom Code
The most efficient way to move ASCII data to a ControlLogix or CompactLogix PLC is [...]
Feb
10 Reasons Why Connecting a Database Directly to Your PLC Is a Terrible Idea
Direct connections between PLCs and databases are a fundamentally flawed architecture for production environments. They [...]
Feb
Going Beyond Tag Names: The Eight Types of Data Context That Make Plant Data Actually Matter
Raw plant floor data without context is just noise. You cannot trust it, compare it [...]
Feb
Untapping the SNMP Data Sitting Inside Your Production Network
Most factories already have hundreds of devices reporting useful health data through SNMP. Switches, UPS [...]
Feb
One Control Engineer’s Tedious Fight With Intermittent Modbus RTU Communications Failures And When to Just Give Up
Summary A Control Engineer with a PLC master and a two-slave node Modbus RTU network [...]
Jan
How is a Historian Different from an Edge Gateway?
Summary: What is the difference between an industrial Historian and an Edge Gateway? While both [...]
Jan
Why Are Industrial Gateways Important to Smart Manufacturing Systems?
Summary: Industrial gateways, a broad term that also includes protocol gateways (aka protocol converters), are [...]
Jan
The One Teeny Error That Sabotages Modbus to ControlLogix Integration Projects
Summary: When Modbus data appears incorrect in a ControlLogix or CompactLogix PLC, the cause is [...]
Jan
