Industrial Automation: Sensors, Programmable Logic Controllers, and Fieldbuses
A technical engineering guide to industrial control: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), discrete sensors, ladder logic execution, and OT protocols.
Insights, updates, and practical guides from our engineering team.
A technical engineering guide to industrial control: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), discrete sensors, ladder logic execution, and OT protocols.
A masterclass in interpreting traceroute diagnostics: identifying asymmetric routing, MPLS tunnels, ICMP rate-limiting, and peering bottlenecks.
A technical comparison of network telemetry architectures: polling via SNMPv3, flow export with IPFIX/NetFlow, and synthetic active probing (TWAMP).
A rigorous engineering guide to core network quality metrics: propagation delay, RFC 3393 jitter formulas, packet loss ratios, and VoIP impact.
A technical breakdown of internet speed test mechanics: single vs multi-stream TCP tests, bufferbloat effects, server distance, and RFC 6349.
A hands-on guide to essential network engineering CLI tools: iPerf3 bandwidth benchmarking, MTR path profiling, tcpdump packet analysis, and cURL metrics.
A technical engineering comparison of traditional industrial robots and collaborative robots (cobots): kinematics, safety sensors, payload, and speed.
A technical analysis of global industrial automation trends: evaluating robot density benchmarks, International Federation of Robotics (IFR) data, and factory yields.
A technical engineering analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in infrastructure inspection: photogrammetry, thermal imaging, LiDAR, and safety.