Category Archives: RTA’s Blog
Ensuring You Get the Best Protocol Gateway
Here at Real Time Automation®, we specialize in making easy-to-use connectivity products, including industrial protocol [...]
Apr
How Does DH+ Compare to Ethernet?
When it comes to industrial communications protocols, one of the inevitable questions is: How does [...]
Mar
10 Keys to Understanding MTConnect
MTConnect is an open, royalty-free standard that provides a very detailed semantic vocabulary for devices [...]
Mar
Taking a Drive Down the Data Highway
Do you remember the term data highway? That’s what they called the internet way back [...]
Feb
Three Reasons to Love EtherCAT
My wife and I are very similar people in a lot of ways but also [...]
Feb
A Refresher Course on OSI & TCP/IP
We spend so much time and energy talking about protocols, I thought now might be [...]
Jan
Get Your CANopen-er Gear Today!
CANopen is the only industrial protocol in which devices are not strictly peer-to-peer and not [...]
Jan
Will DF1 Live Forever? (Revisited)
DF1 is no longer entering middle age, it’s creeping up on retirement age. Anyone who [...]
Dec
PROFIBUS Fun Facts
I love fun facts, especially those that disprove common misconceptions. Here are a few that [...]
Nov
Wondering Aloud About Device Discovery
In the IT world, both network pings and System Network Maintenance Protocols (SNMP) provide a [...]
Nov
