In a recent Control Magazine article titled ‘Alternate Paths,’ author Jim Montague explores how going off road to move data from the field and plant floor to the enterprise level and cloud can include bypassing the usual control routes. The Industrial Internet of...

Although a Human Machine Interface (HMI) is often the last part of a control system integration project, the HMI is vital to the success of your automation system. There are countless guidelines, standards and handbooks covering HMI best practices and design including...

Blog post by Evan Kilgore, Senior Electrical Engineer, Colorado Successful projects are built on relationships. This fact is at the core of Huffman Engineering Inc. With the network of customers, manufacturers, distributors, and contractors, it is always important to...

A few weeks ago, another Cybersecurity attack hit and automation control systems integrator Huffman Engineering helped rescue one of their customers. Blog post by Keith Mandachit, Senior Engineer “We’ve been hit and we are down!” This is not what you want...

Blog post byTanner Grieve, Mechanical Engineer A safety programmable logic controller (PLC) is like a standard PLC.  It can be used to control and automate pieces of industrial equipment. A safety PLC supports all the applications that a standard PLC does;...