Tag Archives: PROFINET IO

Future of ASCII Data

ASCII, as you know from my previous columns, has been with us for a long [...]

MODBUS – Glad You Asked!

I travel a lot. When you travel as much as I do, you tend to [...]

What the “UTF”?

In this edition of my dissertation on ASCII I am going to devolve into the [...]

OPC UA Profiles

One of the easier OPC UA concepts to understand is OPC UA profiles. Profiles are [...]

Why Modbus TCP?

RTA recently started working with a client on a development project where we’ll be embedding [...]

The End of Cyclic Communication…

It’s amazing to think how life has changed over the last ten years. Today, I [...]

To Modbus or Not to Modbus, That Is the Question!

Every technology and innovation has its day. The steam engine, a revolutionary technology that revolutionized [...]

OPC UA Under the Radar

OPC UA® is still very under the radar for a lot of folks in the [...]

ASCII Encoding Guide

ASCII is extremely important to all of us. As computers were developed in the 1950s [...]

Other Devices

John Donne wrote the famous poem “No Man is an Island.” Personally, I’m thinking about [...]