Tag Archives: Industrial Automation

The Future of Modbus

Modbus is the one of the great grandfathers of industrial automation. To say it’s long [...]

OPC DA Data Modeling

One of the more interesting parts of my jobs is talking with automation guys (yes [...]

OPC Part 3 Other IPC’s

Recently I have spent some time talking about DDE – Dynamic Data Exchange. DDE is [...]

OPC – An Introduction

Not many people know my background and history. In reality I’m just an Italian dirt [...]

Robostir

I’m going to take a risk here. It’s hard to be public about a thing [...]

Barcodes – YA Gotta Love EM’

How old is barcoding now? I think that when I watched Fred Flintstone as a [...]

CODESYS TO THE RESCUE

It’s the hot and sticky part of summer here in the upper Midwest. Lots of [...]

The 10.5 MYTHS of Industrial Device Converters & Gateways 6-10.5

Myth#6 – No Need for DeviceNet Gateways – DeviceNet is Dead (and Profibus too) I [...]

Personal Area Networks Part 3 of 7

Personal Area Networks (PAN) – A Simple Primer   The previous two articles in this [...]

Yes, I’ve Changed My Mind

Alright I’ll admit it. I’m kind of stubborn. I think everyone is to a certain [...]