TLDR; gives you an opportunity to narrow down your reading list in the ICS / OT environment. I hope you have a chance to read this series regardless of your background. This series comes from a management consultant with front line field experience. Extreme Ownership has three primary books: Extreme Ownership, The Dichotomies of Leadership and Top Gun. I understand a new book has been published on strategies and tactics for leadership. This review will cover the first bo

TLDR; is intended to give the readers a competitive edge, and I can think of no better series than Kaban by Gary Metcalf. His three books offer a stepwise approach to implementing continuous improvement in any workplace. Kaban is a short, no-frills phrase for how Toyota took over the market. At it's core, it is the philosophy of continuous improvement. Let's be honest, we all have things that we can do better. This book allowed me to cut down dramatically on overtime by

TLDR; offers you an opportunity to preview books relevant to our field. Usually, I try to cover a single book and give a brief overview. However, some books are so good that I end up reading the entire series. Posts like this should be like skirts: long enough to cover everything but still short enough to keep interest. I read Tribe of Hackers, Tribe of Hackers Red Team and Tribe of Hackers Blue Team, which are relevant to my career aspirations. There are also Tribe of Ha

I am a sucker for news and rarely manage to keep up with much, especially after having a child. However, I found a delightful blog Alana Murray's Substack .. (For us old timers, Substack is an interesting business model for modern journalism. Rather than subscribe to a brand, like Wired or the Atlantic, you can subscribe to individuals. It feels strange, but the world is changing.) Here is a taste of one of her recent posts... Most people who work in industrial controls r

TLDR; exists to save you time in reading. In this case, I feel it appropriate to tell you to order this book if you are new to the field...

PID loops are fairly easy to explain but it can be a pain to practice and simulate them. Let's talk just a little about them and point...

TLDR saves you time on books that you might read, or be recommended. One such book is The Four Tendencies , by Gretchen Rubin. This...

I do not pretend to be the best with state machines or digital logic. Our electrical engineering and computer science buddies will...

Digital timing charts are similar to truth tables but on steroids. They are my absolute favorite for showing how systems should work. ...

Pro-tips exist to help improve your professional life. These are general and not aimed at anyone specific... but some issues do seem to...

A friend of mine recently took the PE for Controls, which is now online and significantly different from the all-encompassing, open book...

Truth tables are nice and will help you peel away redundancy in code, but fail to take into account changes in state. AND, NAND, OR and...

Pro tips exist to help you in your career. They usually focus on topics that I have experience with, but I had the pleasure of talking...

Truth tables come up in computer science classes, electrical engineering classes and, to a lesser extent, in relay logic. However, I...

It turns out there are good number of relevant podcasts for this field. They are also great for when you are on the road! Just a few...

I recently had a co-worker define SCADA as "secret computer and data assignments." While it was funny, it was a comment on how the end...

Pro-tips exist to help professionalize the services you offer. (When you are in controls, you are very rarely the end customer.) ...

This is a nice article written by an old friend, Jake Brodsky. All credit goes to him, the original work can be found here! When I first...

The majority of the posts in this blog are aimed at integration firms, rather than the end clients. However, what to choose to do with...

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, has finally said what we all knew. Utilities are being targeted and there is “far too little public...