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Josh Eastburn

Josh Eastburn is director of technical marketing for Opto 22. After 12 years as an automation engineer working in the semiconductor, petrochemical, food and beverage, and life sciences industries, Eastburn works with the engineers at Opto 22 to understand the needs of tomorrow’s customers. He is a contributing writer here.

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  • Case Study: Connecting Cloud-based Quality Control to the Edge
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    Case Study: Connecting Cloud-based Quality Control to the Edge

    Intrinsics Imaging’s AI-powered vision system uses edge I/O to integrate cloud analytics into process controls. This case study originally appeared in Automation 2022: Cybersecurity & Connectivity Volume 2.
    By: Josh Eastburn
    06 May, 2022 | 6 minutes
  • Case Study: RDI Controls Executes Control System Retrofit
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    Case Study: RDI Controls Executes Control System Retrofit

    Pennsylvania-based engineering services company RDI Controls designed distributed control systems to retrofit three turbine peaking plants with Opto 22’s groov EPIC and SNAP PAC controllers. This article was originally published in the Automation 2021: Control Systems Ebook.
    By: Josh Eastburn
    09 September, 2021 | 7 minutes
  • Case Study: From Warehouse to Enterprise with Edge Computing
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    Case Study: From Warehouse to Enterprise with Edge Computing

    New hand sanitizer packaging plant uses unique automation architecture to run at the pace of modern business. This article is from the Ebook Automation 2021: OT/ICS Cybersecurity.
    By: Josh Eastburn
    19 May, 2021 | 7 minutes
  • Building Industrial MQTT Networks at Scale with Edge Computing
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    Building Industrial MQTT Networks at Scale with Edge Computing

    MQTT (formerly MQ Telemetry Transport) consistently ranks as the most popular IoT-specific messaging protocol. However, there are several obstacles to bringing the power of MQTT to an industrial environment. From Volume 1 of the Automation 2021 Ebook: IIoT & Industry 4.0.
    By: Josh Eastburn
    10 March, 2021 | 8 minutes
  • Building Industrial IoT from Edge to Cloud
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    Building Industrial IoT from Edge to Cloud

    Next-generation distributed I/O and control open new possibilities for connected infrastructure.
    By: Josh Eastburn
    10 September, 2020 | 9 minutes
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