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IT/OT Networking
Industrial network design, virtualization and IT/OT infrastructure for regulated plants.
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FactoryTalk View SE, Historian SE Development Sprint
Not a flex, more of a Hail Mary in response to delayed shipping… I had engineers sitting around waiting for our new…
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VMWare ESXi vs Hyper-V
GMP Automation’s Creed: “This is my hypervisor. There are many like it, but this one is documented. My infrastructure is my life.…
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ITOT Switch Characterization – Lucid Lab
Doing some switch characterization tests in the lab. Glad we starting making magnets over stickers. Helps with naming devices and keeping track…
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Rack Mounted Industrial Switches
Putting together an order for two 19″ rack mounted Cisco IE-4000’s. This client is running out of wall space on the factory…
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Stratix 5700 vs 5200 – Lucid Thoughts
Is the Stratix 5200 an improvement over the old 5700? I’ve seen the early reviews from the folks preferring alternate platforms, but…
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Front-Facing Ethernet Ports
Not sure if I dislike front-facing ethernet ports or those 6’ armored strain boots on some industrial patch cables more, but inevitably…
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ITOT Converge in Standard Server Rack
Our latest PLC install, smartly nestled in a 19″ server rack. The image speaks volumes about Lucid Automation’s commitment to innovative, space…
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Tuning VMs For Industrial Applications
Virtual machines are used at every level because of the value they provide in development, testing, backup, and recovery.
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Retrofitting Stratix 5700 into Existing Biotech Skid
Retrofitting an OEM skid with a Stratix 5700. When buying new equipment be sure to specify, at a minimum, an industrial managed…
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Chromatography UV Peak Detection
Our Special Projects Intern, Eliott Park, presented his Chromatography UV Peak Detection model using a Keras TensorFlow neural net API.
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