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Category Archives: RTA’s Blog

Industrial and Building Automation: Making This Marriage Work
Industrial and Building Automation: Making This Marriage Work

I have a love/hate relationship with my technology. On one hand, I love that my [...]

03
Aug
Three Industrial Automation Technologies Only an Idiot Would Abandon
Three Old Industrial Automation Technologies Only an Idiot Would Abandon

Hello, my name is Jansen, and I am a hoarder (Hi, Jansen). I absolutely hate [...]

27
Jul
What is a single protocol gateway?
What In The World Is A Single Protocol Gateway

One of the really great things about having a good communication channel with customers is [...]

20
Jul
Modbus: So Easy Your Grandparents Could Understand
Modbus: So Simple Your Grandparents Could Understand It

When I was 10 years old or so, I saved up enough money to buy [...]

13
Jul
Even more on data normalization - RTA's Blog
Even More On Normalization of PLC Data Tags

I’ve written a number of articles in the past on normalizing PLC data especially Allen-Bradley [...]

06
Jul
The Cocktail Party Literacy Guide of EtherNet/IP
The Cocktail Party Literacy Guide of EtherNet/IP

I am not an engineer. I have a great deal of respect for the profession [...]

29
Jun
Network Address Translation: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

There is little in automation that is used more often and is less difficult to [...]

22
Jun
New Support for Siemens Data Blocks
New Support for Siemens Data Blocks!

It’s not often that I get to announce something really cool, but today’s an exception. [...]

15
Jun
PackML Transforms Control Engineers into Renaissance Men
PackML Transforms Control Engineers into Renaissance Men

I once had an employer who I found awfully difficult to work with at times. [...]

08
Jun
Allen-Bradley PLCs with or without an embedded web server
Web Servers for Allen-Bradley PLCs – Part 2

The previous article in this series discussed what web servers are and how they function [...]

01
Jun