The plan was simple — a day off from code, hands on the pyrolyser. It ended in a thousand lines of Python, a fitted biomass decomposition kinetic model and a settings calculator covering 16 fuels. On mass balance, why screw fill ratio isn't a property of the equipment, and why nobody will reply to your email about feeder settings this week.
Knowledge Base
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ITIL runs hundreds of pages, ISO/IEC 20000 requires an audit. FitSM sits in between — a free European ITSM standard with 17 general requirements plus 65 process-specific ones, deployable without a dedicated quality team. A summary of FitSM Foundation 3.0.6.
Polish Standards are protected by copyright, but facts about them are not. A field study of legal decisions when building a tool that alerts on changes to PN-EN standards: metadata scraping, fair use for PDF diff, and the database sui generis trap.
Not every temperature transmitter flags a disconnected thermocouple. An F&F MB-TC-1 case study: real Modbus register data, three sensor states, and the limit of what software can actually detect.
How to list available COM ports, send and receive raw bytes over a serial port, and test communication with an industrial device without any extra tools.
How the Flowbus protocol works in Bronkhorst mass flow controllers, message structure, parameter addressing and your first connection.
How Modbus RTU works over RS-485, frame structure with CRC, device addressing and common timing issues.
What RS-485 is, what the bus looks like, termination, grounding, USB converters and common wiring mistakes.
A collection of real problems I've hit while doing serial communication in industrial environments — what happens, why, and how to fix it.
What LOGO! is, how to program it, how to talk to it over Modbus TCP and Ethernet, and when it's the right choice instead of a bigger PLC.
What thermocouple modules are, types of thermocouples, how to read temperatures over Modbus RTU and what the registers in a typical multi-channel module mean.
How Modbus TCP works, frame structure, register types and your first connection to an industrial device.