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Month: March 2012

Design Tools

By Frank Posted on March 25, 2012 Posted in Controls Design, Machine Design, Software & Programming Tagged with design, programming, timing diagram

As I re-acclimate myself to the machine building world after my vacation and re-starting my company I am reminded of all of the various design tools that are required to successfully implement a machine or production line. Of course there …

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Life…

By Frank Posted on March 18, 2012 Posted in Life, Me, Thoughts Tagged with contracting, life

I has now been about 14 months since I started this blog and I’ve covered a lot of different subjects. I try to make the content as automation-related as possible but it is getting more and more difficult to cover …

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Packaging & Nalle Automation

By Frank Posted on March 11, 2012 Posted in Extrusion, Machine Assembly and Fabrication, Machine Builders and Integrators, Packaging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with networking, packaging, vendors

This week I made my first sales trip for my new consulting company. I returned to Knoxville where I had my old company ACS for 10 years and paid a visit to several old customers and friends. If you have …

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Batching

By Frank Posted on March 4, 2012 Posted in Process, Touchscreens Tagged with batching, load cell, Maple Systems, process

Batching refers to a number of different techniques related to the automation world including the creation of an object stage by stage over a series of workstations or the execution of a series of jobs or programs on a computer …

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