Knowledge

📚 Knowledge

Practical notes from the workshop floor — on PLCs, SCADA, migrations and keeping production running.

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Our long-form technical blog lives on its own site: detailed write-ups on PLC recovery, SCADA architecture, retrofits, OEE and the day-to-day realities of keeping production running.

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Recovering a PLC program after a power failure

When a controller comes back blank after an outage, what you do in the first hour decides everything. A practical guide.

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Retrofit or replace? Modernising an industrial control system

How to decide between modernising your existing control system and replacing it — the questions we ask first.

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SCADA energy monitoring & OEE across 30 machines

How we gave a plant live energy data, an MS SQL historian and real OEE & piece-time numbers across thirty machines.

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