Tag Archives: Historian

10 Reasons Why Connecting a Database Directly to Your PLC Is a Terrible Idea

Direct connections between PLCs and databases are a fundamentally flawed architecture for production environments. They [...]

How is a Historian Different from an Edge Gateway?

Summary: What is the difference between an industrial Historian and an Edge Gateway? While both [...]

Adding SQL to the RTConnect A-B PLC Historian: What It Means for Factory Data

One of the very interesting new features of the RTConnect A-B PLC Historian is SQL. [...]

Edge to Cloud: When and How to Forward Historian Data to the Cloud

The RTA A-B PLC Historian gives you full control of production data at the edge. [...]

Does Your Factory Floor Historian Have the Seven Indispensable Power Features That Actually Enable Real-Time Data Insight?

Get The Essential Historian Checklist And Learn That You Don’t Need More Data, You Need [...]

Bridging IT and OT with Real Time Automation’s A-B PLC Historian

Not every plant wants to keep its operational technology locked away. For organizations focused on [...]

Using Real Time Automation’s A-B PLC Historian in a Closed OT System

Industrial automation has always walked a fine line between progress and protection. On one hand, [...]

Advantages and Disadvantages of Data Logging Solutions

Unlike the devices we used in industrial applications a few years ago, today’s devices are [...]

What a Good Data Logger Looks Like

We all know that in the not too distant past, data logging meant someone walking [...]

Where Modbus Still Make Sense

I’d be willing to bet that if I tried to pawn off my old Betamax [...]