Category Archives: RTA’s Blog
2020: Not The Worst Year – Not By A Long Shot
If you’re like me, you’re still thinking “Thank God that freaking 2020 is over!” For [...]
Feb
The Massive Pothole on the Road to Digitalization
I’m sure it’s unique to me but when I sit at my desk to work, [...]
Feb
Rapid Digitalization of Manufacturing? Welcome to Fantasy Island! (What Say You?)
I often wonder if I am a square peg in a round hole. I see [...]
Feb
Single Pair Ethernet Driving IP to the Edge (Part 1)
Ready or not, soon we’ll have Single Pair Ethernet (SPE): a twisted pair cable carrying [...]
Feb
10 Dumb Industrial Ethernet Mistakes Smart People Make
My friends at Fluke Networks recently published an excellent article detailing the mistakes many of us [...]
Feb
Where Supporters of Pub/Sub Get It All Wrong…
Unless you’ve chosen to lock yourself down on your couch for the last year, you [...]
Feb
What is an EtherNet/IP Network?
That would seem like an odd question to ask. I’ve been involved with EtherNet/IP for [...]
Jan
Types of Network Address Translation (NAT) for Control Systems (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series discussed 1:1 NAT and Port Forwarding NAT. This article continues [...]
Jan
Types of Network Address Translation (NAT) for Control Systems (Part 1)
In an earlier article, I discussed the concept of Network Address Translation. That article described [...]
Jan
Single Pair Ethernet is Driving IP to the Edge
There is a long running show on the History Channel called Mysteries at the Museum. [...]
Jan
