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First Look: Red Lion’s New NT5000 Gigabit Industrial Ethernet Switches (M5E38)

Shawn Tierney -
I take a first look at Red Lion's newly released Industrial Gigabit Ethernet Switch, the N-Tron NT5000 series, including unboxing and initial setup, in...

Red Lion’s New NT5000 Managed Gigabit Switches (P144)

Shawn Tierney -
Today my guest is Diane Davis from Red Lion who introduces us to their new N-Tron NT5000 line of Managed Gigabit Switches in Episode...

Industrial Ethernet Switches from Antaira (P136)

Shawn Tierney -
Today my guest is Scott Preston of Antaira who introduces us to their line of Industrial Ethernet Switches in Episode 136 of The Automation...

First Look: MOXA NAT-102 (M5E29)

Shawn Tierney -
I take a first look at the NAT-102 Industrial Network Address Translation Device from MOXA today on The Automation Minute. [vimeo 690594466 w=750 h=420] The Automation...

First Look: MOXA SDS-3000 Smart Industrial Ethernet Switches (M5E19)

Shawn Tierney -
We take a first look at the SDS-3000 line of Industrial Ethernet Smart Switches from MOXA in this episode of The Automation Minute. [vimeo 597394126...

Honeywell Fault Tolerant Ethernet and Control Firewall

Brandon Cooper -
After a previous article about Honeywell Experion Controllers with PMIO, I received some feedback in regards to how Experion controllers connect to a process...

Using Fiberoptic cabling for Ethernet Networks

Brandon Cooper -
If you are working with Ethernet networks in your facility, whether IT or OT networks, chances are that all the network equipment is not...

What is PRP?

Brandon Cooper -
Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) is a standard defined in IEC 62439-3 and is adopted in the ODVA, Inc. EtherNet /IP specification, and is used...

Cisco & Stratix Switch Setup using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

Brandon Cooper -
In this continuation of getting familiar with the CLI (Command Line Interface) of your Cisco or Stratix switch, we will go beyond getting connected...

Cisco & Stratix Command Line Interface Basics

Brandon Cooper -
“Everything must be connected”. That is pretty much the philosophy in the manufacturing environment because every sensor, every data point needs to be captured,...

Choosing The Right Ethernet Switch

Brandon Cooper -
Like many other people that work in controls and automation, I came from an electrical and instrumentation background and did not have any experience...

Setting the Password in Your Stratix Switch

Brandon Cooper -
One of the things I love the most about working with industrial control systems in the OT (Operational Technology) environment is that you never...

Using The 1783-NATR To Bridge Networks

Brandon Cooper -
With small control teams managing already large and increasingly growing control systems, an opportunity that I have encountered is the need to remotely access...

Flex I/O – How to add on Ethernet to ControlLogix (S21)

Shawn Tierney -
In today's article (and video) I walk through how to add Ethernet Flex I/O to a ControlLogix System: Step 1) To start, open your RSLogix...

S7-1200 – How To Set The IP Address Of A New PLC (S16)

Shawn Tierney -
In this week's episode of The Automation Show, we take a look at how you set the IP Address of a new Siemens S7-1200: For...

SLC-5/05 – Using the BOOTP Utility to Set the Ethernet/IP Address

Shawn Tierney -
How to set the Ethernet IP Address of a SLC-5/05 Controller using the free BOOTP-DHCP utility. If you have a new SLC-5/05, or one that has...

Ethernet Basics: Addressing

Shawn Tierney -
In yesterday's article I covered the basics of Ethernet cabling, hubs and switches. In today's article I'll cover the essential Ethernet basics of IP Addressing,...

Ethernet Basics: Hardware

Shawn Tierney -
One of the best courses I took back in the 90's was an Ethernet Networking course. At the time I was already familiar with DH+,...

System Design – How To Use Rockwell’s New Ethernet/IP Capacity Tool

Shawn Tierney -
In today's article I'll show you how to use Rockwell's new Ethernet/IP Capacity Tool. The replacement for Rockwell's discontinued Ethernet/IP Capacity Tool can now be...

RSLinx, MSExcel – Get A-B Programmable Controller Data into Microsoft Excel using RSLinx Classic (M4E41)

Shawn Tierney -
In this episode I demonstrate how to use RSLinx Classic to get data from Allen-Bradley Programmable Controllers into Microsoft Excel (Episode 41 of The...

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