SCADA Videos
& Tutorials
Plain English video guides on SCADA monitoring, PLC programming, and industrial automation for oil and gas operators.
What Is SCADA? Explained in 4 Minutes
SCADA components, real-world oil and gas examples, cloud vs traditional systems - explained in plain English.
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Cloud vs On-Premise SCADA - The REAL 5-Year Cost
One architecture costs about half as much over 5 years. Hardware, licensing, upgrades, security - the honest TCO comparison operators don't get from vendors.
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SCADA vs PLC - Stop Confusing These Two
The reflex vs the awareness: what a PLC actually does, what SCADA actually does, and how they work together.
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Ladder Logic in 4 Minutes - The Language Running Every Factory
Rungs, contacts, coils, the seal-in circuit, and why a 1969 language still beats modern code on the plant floor.
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Modbus Explained - The 1979 Protocol Still Running the Oilfield
Registers, RTU vs TCP, the register-map gotcha, word-order bugs, and why Modbus refuses to die.
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MQTT vs OPC UA - Which Protocol for Your Plant Data?
Heavyweight information model vs featherweight pub/sub - and why the real answer is both, by layer (with Sparkplug B).
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Wellhead Monitoring in 2026 - Stop Driving to Your Wells
Transmitters + solar RTU + LTE + cloud dashboards + SMS alarms within the minute = significantly fewer truck rolls. The full stack and the math.
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Oilfield Alarms Done Right - The 30-Second Rule
Deadbands, delays, priorities, SMS+voice escalation chains, acknowledgment, and the monthly review that kills alarm fatigue.
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Pipeline SCADA - Watching 200 Miles From One Screen
Station instrumentation, rate-of-change leak indication, line balance, remote valve control, and API 1164 compliance.
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SCADA as a Service - Why Subscription Beats the Capital Project
No servers, no license true-ups, no upgrade weekends - per-site subscription monitoring, live in days.
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What Oil & Gas Automation REALLY Costs (Honest Numbers)
Instruments, panels, comms, and the layer-4 software decision that changes the total by half - line-item by line-item.
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SCADA Migration Without the Disaster - A Field-Tested Plan
Inventory → prioritize → run in PARALLEL → cut over site-by-site. The playbook that removes the horror stories.
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Securing SCADA & OT Networks - What Auditors Ask in 2026
The air gap is dead. Segmentation, per-device credentials, MFA, encryption, IEC 62443 / API 1164 / NIST 800-82.
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Alarm Management - Why Operators Ignore Your Alarms
ISA-18.2 rates, alarms-must-have-actions, deadbands, floods, and the monthly loop that transforms control rooms.
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Remote Monitoring for Industrial Equipment - The Complete Picture
What to instrument first, the sensors-to-cloud path, why alarms (not dashboards) are the product.
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Unified Namespace - The Data Architecture Everyone Is Talking About
UNS minus the hype: ISA-95 hierarchy, MQTT + Sparkplug B, publish-once-consume-everywhere, and the honest caveats.
Watch + Read →SCADA, Explained Without the Jargon
Most SCADA training material is written for controls engineers who already know what an RTU is. This library takes the opposite approach: every video explains supervisory control and data acquisition the way you'd explain it to a new pumper, an operations manager evaluating monitoring software, or an owner deciding whether remote wellhead monitoring is worth the money. Real oil and gas examples - tank levels, compressor status, pressure alarms - not abstract diagrams.
The platform demo walks through a live Merobix system end to end: real-time dashboards, alarm and callout flow, the historian, site maps, shift logs, reports, and the mobile app your field crew actually uses. The fundamentals videos cover how SCADA systems are built - sensors, PLCs, gateways, and the cloud - and how a modern cloud SCADA platform differs from the traditional on-premise servers most operators inherited.
New videos are added as we publish them. If you'd rather read, the same topics are covered in depth on the blog, and Merobix University offers free structured courses on SCADA fundamentals for operators and technicians.