Technical articles for industrial IT and OT teams
74 articles on OEE, Modbus, OPC UA and MQTT, OT security, industrial data, edge computing and IT/OT project planning.
15 articles · industrial-it
LoRaWAN in Industrial Environments: Long-Range IoT for Factory and Field
When Wi-Fi is too short-range and cellular is too costly, LoRaWAN fills the gap: it connects low-data-rate sensors across warehouses, yards and remote sites at low cost per device.
Industrial Data Historians: Choosing Between OSIsoft PI, Ignition, and InfluxDB
Every factory needs a historian — but the choice between enterprise platforms, SCADA-native solutions, and open-source time-series databases depends on your scale, budget, and team skills.
Energy Monitoring for Manufacturing: From Sub-Metering to Real-Time Dashboards
A practical guide to energy monitoring in manufacturing: what to meter, how to connect meters to dashboards, and how to use demand data to find savings and prove them.
Retrofitting Legacy PLCs with MQTT: A Practical Field Guide
You do not need to replace your Siemens S7-300 or Allen-Bradley SLC to get IIoT data. A lightweight MQTT gateway bridges legacy controllers to modern analytics without touching the control logic.
Industrial Alarm Management: Building Systems That Operators Actually Trust
Alarm floods erode operator trust. A structured alarm management lifecycle based on ISA-18.2 turns a noisy alarm system into one operators can act on.
Industrial Monitoring Dashboards with Grafana: From Sensor to Screen
Grafana is not only for DevOps. Paired with a time-series database and industrial data connectors, it is a flexible, cost-effective option for manufacturing dashboards.
Containerization on the Factory Floor: Docker and K3s for Industrial Edge
What containerization looks like on a factory floor: when Docker or Podman is enough, when K3s earns its place, and the pitfalls to plan for, from persistent storage to rollbacks.
Building a Predictive Maintenance Pipeline with IoT Vibration Sensors
A well-designed vibration monitoring pipeline can reveal bearing wear, misalignment and imbalance before they become failures. This is how the pipeline fits together, from sensor to work order.
Web-Based SCADA: Why Browser-First Is the Future of Industrial Monitoring
Thick clients, Windows workstations and painful upgrade cycles are the usual pain points of classic SCADA. How browser-delivered SCADA changes the architecture, and how to migrate without a big-bang replacement.
OPC UA: The Industrial Interoperability Standard That Finally Delivers
OPC UA is replacing legacy protocols as the backbone of industrial interoperability. Here is what IT engineers need to know about adoption, security, and real-world integration patterns.
Bridging the Gap: How IT and OT Teams Can Finally Work Together in Manufacturing
IT and OT have different languages, different priorities, and different risk tolerances. Sustainable digital transformation only happens when both sides build shared frameworks — not just shared networks.
Data Preprocessing for Industrial ML: Cleaning Sensor Noise Without Losing the Signal
Raw industrial sensor data is messy. Before any ML model can deliver value, it needs to survive proper preprocessing. Here is the pipeline that actually works in the field.
Beyond Firewalls: Building Cyber Resilience in Industrial Control Systems
Zero Trust is a starting point, not an end state. Real resilience in ICS environments requires detection, recovery, and graceful degradation — not just prevention.
Time-Series Data at the Industrial Edge: MQTT, InfluxDB, and the Architecture Behind It
Storing and querying industrial time-series data at the edge requires a different mindset than cloud-native architectures. Here is what works in practice.
The Six Hidden Losses That Kill OEE (And How to Fight Back)
Measuring OEE is only the start. A structured breakdown of the six losses behind the number and how to diagnose which one is holding your line back.
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