Tag Archives: Cloud
Snake Oil Salesmen from the 1800s are Back and Now They’re Selling IoT Systems to Manufacturers
I am a pretty calm guy. Sometimes too calm. I remember one time when I [...]
May
Meet MQTT, The Industrial Protocol That Takes Your Data To The Cloud
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is a mechanism for moving data around the factory floor [...]
Oct
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 [...]
Sep
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 [...]
Jul
Wireless: Cut the Cord or Not?
Our society is now wireless. More and more of us are streaming news, entertainment, sports [...]
Sep
OPC UA as the Architecture for IT/OT Convergence
The challenge today is to how to best migrate the tightly-coupled factory floor architectures with [...]
Apr
Manufacturing Faces Many and Varied Headaches
It’s a difficult time for manufacturers. Very difficult. If you have a small to medium [...]
Nov
ASCII to the Cloud Part 2
Stash is an old friend of mine (we’ve called him Stash since high school when [...]
Jul
Modbus and OPC UA – How do we make that marriage work?
Tens of millions of Modbus devices have been shipped all over the world. There probably [...]
Jun
ASCII to the Cloud Part 1
Even though it’s 2018, we still find ASCII devices on the factory floor. And we [...]
May
