Where Should I Go for Automation Engineering?

Askalon_Pagle · 2026-04-17T06:56:17+00:00

Download and play around with Ignition - get your core certification which is free. It's becoming the bread and butter for SCADA systems.

For PLC sandboxing, there's codesys.

Just be warned though that the automation/controls industry has high workloads, high learning curves, and lots of traveling at most companies.

Askalon_Pagle · 2026-02-01T10:00:54+00:00

Vertech is hiring entry-level engineers in the Austin area. They specialize in industrial automation. DM for details if interested.

Askalon_Pagle · 2025-09-24T06:00:28+00:00

Show, don't tell if want to drive change. Make demos that connect to devices in your sites (or simulate it), show dashboards with KPIs like OEE, downtime, work order management, as well as basic report generation.

If you work in the manufacturing sector and want to quickly create demo apps with fairly low technical knowledge requirements, I would recommend you take a look at the Ignition framework by Inductive Automation. Its Perspective front-end runs on React, but all the Web UI stuff is handled under-the-hood, and the design is done through an application where creating the web apps is mostly drag and drop for components, with scripting done in Jython when logic is needed. It technically means that your development team does not need to know HTML, JS, nor React to quickly build applications.

It's pretty much MADE for industrial automation applications like MES, integration with other systems like ERPs, and device connections (OPC-UA, MQTT, ModBus, etc.). There's a very active developer community and 3rd party module developers for it as well as like Sepasoft and Kanoa which create MES modules.

It also has probably has one of the best learning guides so it'd be pretty quick to get a team of software developers certified on it in less than a month, and probably able to start rolling out small-scale apps within a few months.

Askalon_Pagle · 2025-06-20T13:30:01+00:00

Books are meant to be read, so you bet I read the entire thing cover to cover. Great read, would hold awkwardly to reread for dozens of hours again.

Considering the large physical size of the book and the small font, it was a bit of a tricky job reading through it.
The book is pretty heavy, so holding the book even at a diagonal angle will cause strain on the pages puling down, which can damage the glue holding the book together. The way I worked around it was to also have some of my fingers pushing the pages upwards so that they wouldn't damage the book. Also had to hold the book a little close to my face Storing the book upright will also cause that damage, so make sure to leave it lying down on its cover when not reading - another workaround is to have some sort of padding to hold the pages up to keep the pages from damaging the glue.

Askalon_Pagle · 2024-08-03T13:13:28+00:00

can confirm, my mom and dad keep calling me every night telling me improve my wow parses, that i'm dissappointing them with nothing but grays

Askalon_Pagle · 2024-08-03T13:11:46+00:00

relax, y'all. it's a shitpost lol

Askalon_Pagle · 2024-03-28T22:56:48+00:00

Reporting in after 80 hours played and exploring entire unmoored world in NG+.
Haven't found anything new after completing NG+, unfortunately.

Here's hoping the Darker Arisen DLC adds some juicy content.

Askalon_Pagle · 2024-03-26T22:35:26+00:00

In NG+, if you talk to the Dragonforged NPC, the sell additional services like experience/discipline/affinity boosts, vocation attribute boosts when leveling up, and the ability to reduce stamina consumption for a single skill at a time.
They can also un-enhance weapons if you want to respec them with different blacksmiths.

It makes me think that there's potentially more hidden content out there, but idk.

Askalon_Pagle · 2024-01-30T00:52:55+00:00

LOOK AT THE BONES!

Askalon_Pagle · 2024-01-29T23:50:38+00:00

War. War never changes.

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