Category Archives: RTA’s Blog

The Control Engineer’s Guide to Amazon AWS – Part 1

It’s not news that Amazon AWS is a growing presence on factory floors across the [...]

Questions You Must Ask Before Investing in Factory Connectivity (Part 2 of 2)

I had a pretty wild night during my first semester of college. It was homecoming [...]

Questions You Must Ask Before Investing in Factory Connectivity (Part 1)

If you’ve stumbled upon this article hoping to find all the nitty-gritty solutions for your [...]

Achieving Digitalization Without Losing Data

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too I am always befuddled by folks who go [...]

Industrial and Building Automation: Making This Marriage Work

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

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 [...]

What In The World Is A Single Protocol Gateway

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

Modbus: So Simple Your Grandparents Could Understand It

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

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 [...]

The Always Confusing World of Data Scaling and Normalization

Many IIoT devices create ‘landfills’ of unusable data because it hasn’t been standardized, scaled or [...]