Images of Automation – Citing another important call to get on at 2:00 pm, local engineer Fred Newman, announced that he has a hard stop when entering the family’s Zoom Thanksgiving online meeting. Photo by Chris […]
Author: The Automationer
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What are you thankful for?
With a global pandemic, as well as social and political unrest, 2020 has been a trying year. It’s often hard to remember that we have a lot to be thankful for, even when the world […]
Should we change the term master/slave?
With virtue signaling providing the catalyst to rethink the brand names of many controversial consumer products, The Automationer ventures into this dangerous territory to ask, should we stop using the term master/slave for Modbus RTU […]
Layer 2 Switch wonders what is happening up there in layer 3
Images of Automation – A local area Layer 2 access switch wonders about what is really happening up there in Layer 3. Photo by Thomas Jensen on Unsplash
Japanese nuclear officials awaiting return of Godzilla, ICS upgrades long over due
Tokyo – Faced with aging infrastructure and mature industrial control systems, Japanese nuclear officials are awaiting the return of Godzilla, in the hopes that the giant lizard will destroy again. Ministry of Infrastructure officials, speaking […]
