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.
All topicsOEE & production 10Industrial protocols 19OT security 19Industrial data 15Edge & IIoT 13IT/OT projects 13
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MTBF and MTTR: how to calculate them and where they mislead
Definitions, formulas and a worked example for MTBF and MTTR, plus the pitfalls: what counts as a failure, what counts as repair time and why averages hide long outages.
Firmware Update Management for Industrial Devices: Policy Over Panic
Unpatched devices are a risk; botched updates are a production outage. A process for firmware that balances both.
PLC Program Backup Best Practices: Protecting the Code That Runs Your Plant
The only copy of a machine's logic should never live on a single laptop. A practical backup strategy for PLC programs of any age.
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