Tag Archives: OPC UA

What Are the 10 Most Important Questions to Ask About Modbus?

Modbus RTU will live forever. With its simplicity, ease of use, world-wide implementation, and small [...]

MQTT Grows Up

Over the years, I have been critical of the MQTT protocol. I am a manufacturing [...]

It’s a Polyglot World, After All…

An Introduction to Siemens Controllers for AB Control Engineers Manufacturing is now a “polyglot” or [...]

Where Modbus Still Make Sense

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

The Manufacturing Data Prison

I don’t know how you personally spend your days, but If you spent them traveling [...]

What Exactly is UA TCP?

Everyone who has any knowledge of the internet is well-aware of the Transport Control Protocol [...]

OPC UA or a RESTful Interface?

Exactly 40 years ago, the Modicon Corporation birthed Modbus and the manufacturing world has never [...]

The Future of EtherNet/IP

Every technology has a life span. It’s introduced. Innovators and early adopters get a hold [...]

It’s a Messy, Messy World – Part 2

In my last article, I described what we all know – the world is not [...]

It’s a Messy, Messy World – Part 1

In the recent past, most of our work revolved around I/O systems, networks, controllers and [...]