Everybody's Converting
Moving machine signals and other data from machine measurement and sensing devices to control systems and across networks means that most if not all analog signals generated on machines eventually are converted to digital.
ControlDesign.com: April 9, 2009; Industrial Networking magazine, Spring 2009

Tips for Configuring Networks
Design and initial configuration are among the most important stages when constructing an industrial network. Proper configuration can be easier, and a consistent network operation ensured by evaluating a few tips gathered from software and network suppliers.
ControlDesign.com: April 25, 2008; Industrial Networking magazine, Summer 2008

Slow Inroads for Factor Wireless
Spring 2003, pages 23,24,26

How Wireless Works
Spring 2003, pages 24-29

How Tough Is Your Ethernet Cable?
Summer 2003, pages 20-23

Use Code Changes to Cut Cabling Costs
Winter 2003, pages 30-32

Phil Burgert is a freelance editor and writer with more than 20 years of experience in business, technology and general journalism. He specializes in coverage of metals and other material, environmental coverage and manufacturing technology control and industrial networking topics. He has been based in Oak Park, Ill, for the past decade after spending five years as a daily trade newspaper foreign correspondent in London and Düsseldorf. He has also worked on other technology publications in New York and Chicago and has had other reporting positions in Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Georgia. Burgert has both bachelors and masters degrees in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

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