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Month: December 2012

Emergency Stops and Guard Circuits

By Frank Posted on December 19, 2012 Posted in Automation Concepts, Controls Design, Safety Tagged with design, Emergency Stops, safety

Before the implementation of safety standards as defined in the machinery directive and OSHA the single channel circuit on the left was often used for most machines regardless of the hazard level. In the 1990s several events led to the …

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Pneumatics Chart

By Frank Posted on December 13, 2012 Posted in Pneumatics Tagged with pneumatics

Well, I finally finished all of the pictures and tables for my book and I thought I’d share one of them here. I must make a confession: I use pneumatics a lot, specify components for systems, troubleshoot machines with air …

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McGraw-Hill, Reviewers and the Final Manuscript

By Frank Posted on December 2, 2012 Posted in The Book Tagged with McGraw-Hill

In last weeks post, I mentioned that I had made a trip to New York to meet with McGraw-Hill. I had already planned a trip to Philadelphia for the A-B Automation Fair, so I made a grand tour of the …

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