Keep the Application. Evolve the Platform.
Why a running plant plans its next platform before it has to, and how to make the move without betting the plant on it. Nobody replaces a SCADA system because…
Migrating from AVEVA InTouch HMI to FrameworX: What Moves, What Gets Rebuilt
For the engineer who owns a running InTouch application and has to decide where it lives for the next ten years. If you run an AVEVA InTouch HMI application (Wonderware…
Business Case for Evolving a Legacy HMI and SCADA
Cost, security, and how to choose a platform for the next fifteen years. Nobody replaces a SCADA system because they want to. The application works, the operators trust it, and…
What a SCADA Migration Assessment Contains
We read the application before we quote the migration. Six sections, shown on one worked example. The example that runs through this article is a process-plant application with 7,553 tags,…
Model the Plant, Not the Screens: HMI Migration
AI builds every screen. The evolution starts from the model. Most plants run on an HMI application somebody built years ago, and that application holds decisions written down nowhere else:…
The AI bottleneck in HMI engineering: a toolbox without playbooks
By Marc Taccolini, Founder and CEO, Tatsoft This piece condenses the full article on Substack, which adds the engineer's own account of the two builds, with and without the repository and…
A Business Has Source Code Too: Where AI Grounding Breaks First
By Marc Taccolini, Founder and CEO, Tatsoft *This piece condenses the full article on Substack, which adds the decision register counts and the measured fall in decision filings. Some skills…
How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Connects AI to Industrial Engineering Tools
Most AI tools that have entered the industrial automation space over the past two years share a common architecture: they sit outside the engineering environment. You copy configuration data into…
Why Industrial Automation Needs AI That Builds, Not Just Analyzes
Ask any SCADA engineer how they actually spend their time on a project and the answer is always the same. A typical project has 500 to 2,000 tags. Every one…
The Autonomous Engineer | FrameworX AI Designer
This is not AI-assisted development where a chatbot suggests code snippets. This is Autonomous Engineering.