Tag Archives: IoT
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
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
Single Pair Ethernet is Driving IP to the Edge
There is a long running show on the History Channel called Mysteries at the Museum. [...]
Jan
Understanding Network Address Translation (NAT)
At one point in my life, I hated databases. I don’t know why but databases [...]
Mar
The Enormous Mess that is Manufacturing Security
Nation-states probing our manufacturing systems, multiple standards from an assortment of standards bodies, numerous and [...]
Jan
The Manufacturing Data Prison
I don’t know how you personally spend your days, but If you spent them traveling [...]
Jan
How IoT Companies Fail Their Customers
The world has changed a lot in the last 12 years. When the iPhone was [...]
Nov
Modbus to the Rescue!
I get really irritated with many of these IoT companies. I mean, kick the garbage [...]
Oct
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