Tag Archives: Historian

Recommendations for Managing Fragmented Automation Systems At Small Manufacturers

Intermittent Failures: The Reason Control Engineers Have Gray Hair (And How Historians Help)

My life on the factory floor consisted of working at two massive consumer products companies, [...]

How a Machine-level Historian Quickly Fixes PLC Issues Without IT Infrastructure or Recurring Cost

It’s 2:07am. Third shift is running normally. There are no critical alarms and no obvious [...]

The Four Critical Requirements For A Machine-Level Historian

Personal preferences matter a lot to people and that includes equipment choices like a data [...]

It Works Until It Doesn’t: The Deceptive Success of Using a PLC as a Data Server

He wanted data. He got a production problem. Users often like to use their PLC [...]

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 [...]