Jordan Cota

About Me

I've been in controls and automation since 2020. I started in food and beverage, built a maintenance ticketing system from the ground up and put a status light on the production floor so anyone could see at a glance whether the line was running. Simple ideas that worked. Since then I've connected PLCs, built SCADA systems, integrated protocols most people haven't touched, and made machines readable to the people running them. I don't wait to be handed a problem. I find it, figure it out, and build something that lasts.

I studied at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton with a focus in history, where I received an Associate's Degree. I have a wide variety of passions and enjoy many activities in my free time. I enjoy pickleball, making kombucha, hiking with friends, long walks on the beach, the discovery of new hobbies, and the Oxford comma. I love working on my 1986 BMW K75 and old radios; I have a STA-78 Realistic upstairs and a Sansui A2000 in the living area. Hell, I built this website with HTML coding so I am always tinkering in the analog and digital world!

Published Articles

Check out some of my contributions to the Glassdome Sustainable Manufacturing Blog. These articles dive into practical tips for OT networks, continuous improvement, and more.

Technical Guide: How to Configure MTConnect on a Haas NGC Controller

A step-by-step guide to integrating MTConnect for real-time data on Haas CNC machines.
Why You Need a NAT Device for Your OT Network

Explore the role of NAT in securing and optimizing operational technology networks.
What is Kaizen? Unlocking Continuous Improvement on the Shop Floor

An introduction to Kaizen principles and how they drive efficiency in manufacturing.
How to Connect Older Machines to IoT (Without Replacing Them)

Connecting older machines to Glassdome and Industry 4.0

Get in Touch

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Portfolio

Showcasing my professional projects and contributions in manufacturing and OT solutions.

Forklift Conveyor System

The client was interested to know the Uptime and Downtime of this conveyance system as well as the total amount of parts that were being produced daily. I was able to communicate with the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), a CompactLogix Allen-Bradley, and bring in the key variables in our Glassdome system to monitor these values for changes. The client also requested the ability for operators to input reasons for downtime events, so I built a dashboard that operators could interact with on several iPads nearby, allowing for quick response times and downtime reason tracking. This was a small part of the total of 60 machines that were later connected to the Glassdome network via 30 cellular gateways that fed data to Glassdome. This required an extensive amount of collaboration with multiple parties from the client side, including the IT department, Operations, Maintenance department, Engineering, OEMs, and floor-level operators, to complete this project.

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Water Quality Project - Modbus TCP Conversion

For this project, I spearheaded the retrofit of a legacy Arduino-based monitoring system into a standard Modbus TCP application for future proofing. The client was looking to monitor several water stations; they wanted to know pH level, chlorine amounts (FCL), water temperature (Fahrenheit), and flow (GPM); all in real-time and with alarming. The Arduino system worked fine for a while, but it was using some more complex protocols like I2C and the company that installed the system was bought out. We decided to convert several of the signals from this I2C into 4-20mA and then finally into a Modbus TCP Analog input module for conversion.

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General Dashboard Examples

Here are a few more examples of dashboards I've built with various industrial communication protocols, EIP (Allen-Bradley PLCs), DH+ (Allen-Bradley), Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, OPC-UA, MTConnect, TCP, and FOCAS (Fanuc CNC Machines)