Category Archives: RTA’s Blog

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 [...]

Celebrating a Grand Experiment

Most of us have just celebrated the 4th of July. We were all outside with [...]

The Cocktail Party Literacy Guide of EtherNet/IP

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

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 [...]

New Support for Siemens Data Blocks!

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

PackML Transforms Control Engineers into Renaissance Men

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

Web Servers for Allen-Bradley PLCs – Part 2

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

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