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About Bob McIlvride

Bob McIlvride is the Director of Communications at Skkynet, as well as Communications Manager at Cogent Real-Time Systems, and is responsible for writing and editing technical documentation and marketing communications, as well as keeping in touch with sales partners and customers. He has a Master’s degree in Professional Writing, and 25 years experience writing and publishing in the natural gas and process control industries. He has lived on three continents, speaks three languages, and considers the whole world as his home.

Entries by Bob McIlvride

Case Study: ABB Energy Automation, Italy

by Bob McIlvride

Italy’s ABB Energy Automation feeds data from power plant facilities directly to corporate offices—in real time—using the Cogent DataHub.

Case Study: Gazprom, Russia

by Bob McIlvride

Gazprom uses DataHub to integrate SCADA, HMI modules, RTUs, data processing and historical archiving for 23,000 kilometers of pipelines.

Case Study: TEVA API Pharmaceuticals, Hungary

by Bob McIlvride

Pharmaceuticals company TEVA combines tunnelling and aggregation to network OPC data through their firewall.

Case Study: Plastics Manufacturer, Scandinavia

by Bob McIlvride

A leading plastics manufacturer used the DataHub to access process data for engineering analysis and ERP, realizing substantial savings of time, materials, and production costs.

Case Study: University of California, Berkeley, USA

by Bob McIlvride

DataHub is used to integrate data for distributed control of unmanned aerial vehicles at the Vehicle Dynamics Lab (VDL) of the University of California, Berkeley.

Case Study: Excavator Manufacturer, Brazil

by Bob McIlvride

Key decision makers at an excavator manufacturer plant in Sao Paulo gain complete overview of live production data at their central office.