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Long-form, field-earned analysis on industrial automation and IIoT — written by practitioners, for practitioners.
Your FAT Test Sheet May Be Complete — and Still Fail to Test the Process
Why proving every I/O point doesn't prove the process works — a structured, architecture-first approach to functional acceptance testing using IEC 62381, IEC 62382 and ISA-88.
How to Learn Ignition from Scratch (Updated for 8.3)
A practical, free roadmap into Inductive Automation's Ignition — from the free trial and Inductive University to databases, version control, and working with AI. Updated for 8.3.
Practical OT Cybersecurity for Industrial Engineers
Six field-tested lessons — from asset inventory and backups to USB control, security culture, and a step-by-step path into ISA/IEC 62443.
Tag or Database? Where Your Data Belongs in Ignition
The 'now vs record' question, a 6-point decision checklist and the anti-patterns to avoid when placing data in Ignition Tags vs databases.
How to Tackle Industrial Programming in the Age of AI
You were never really a programmer. You were always an architect. How AI is changing industrial programming, and how to change with it.
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