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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

BYOD Impacts the Factory Floor

by Bob McIlvride

The growing worldwide trend for workers to “bring your own device” (BYOD) to work has impacted the industrial space, according an IHS Technology survey.

Advanced Tunnelling for OPC with Cogent DataHub

by Bob McIlvride

OPC DA does not network well. Advanced tunnelling for OPC avoids problems with DCOM, and provides robust, secure networking for OPC DA.

The Industrial-Strength Real-Time Enterprise

by Bob McIlvride

Invensys VP Dr. Peter Martin foresees enterprise being powered by real-time performance measurement based on industrial automation technologies.

The IoT Pulls Industrial Computing to the Edge

by Bob McIlvride

The advent of IoT technology redraws the architectural map of computer-assisted manufacturing by bringing computing power to the edges of the system.

Business Wakes Up to the IoT

by Bob McIlvride

The main finding from an Economist Intelligence Unit report is that there is a quiet but significant interest among companies of all sizes in the Internet of Things.

Is Convergence the Future for Industrial Automation?

by Bob McIlvride

As we move towards a single social village, the powerful force of convergence is being felt in business and industry. Are process control and automation next?