OPC UA vs MQTT: Which Should You Use for Industrial Automation?
OPC UA and MQTT are often treated as competing industrial protocols, but they solve different problems. Here is…
September 2026
Will AI Replace PLC Programmers? What Automation Engineers Need to Learn Before 2030
AI can already generate PLC code, understand TIA Portal projects and automate engineering tasks. Does that mean PLC…
AI-Generated Attack Tools Are Targeting Siemens S7 PLCs — What Automation Engineers Need to Know
For years, industrial cybersecurity warnings have sounded abstract to many controls engineers. Keep the PLC network isolated.Do not…
Rockwell Automation Joins Project Glasswing: What AI-Enabled Cyber Defence Means for Industry
Rockwell Automation has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, bringing frontier artificial intelligence into the fight to secure industrial software,…
TIA Portal V22 – release date and what’s new
Siemens will be releasing new software for Siemens PLC in November 2026. No more information at the moment
Siemens Eigen Engineering Agent: TIA Portal AI Tested
AI-assisted PLC programming has moved quickly over the last few years. Generic AI tools can already generate Structured…