I just got back from teaching a class in California using the conveyor and training demo mentioned in my previous post on Automation NTH. I have discussed training quite a bit on this blog before, but I feel like this…
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Live Sensors Webcast for Control Engineering
Hey, this Frank Lamb from Automation Primer. I will be doing a webcast for Control Engineering magazine on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 2 p.m. EST (1 p.m. CST, 11 a.m. PST, I can’t tell you MST because it’s a…
Posted in Me, Sensing, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with: Balluff, Carlo Gavazzi, Control Engineering, Frank Lamb, Sensor Webcast, sensors
Ladder Logic 208: System Routine 2
Today’s post is a continuation of the series on PLC Ladder Logic I started several years ago; for more of these post click on the PLC tab at the top of the site. In particular this continues my discussion of…
Posted in PLCs, Software & Programming Tagged with: Auto Cycle, ladder logic, PLC Pulse Train, PLCs, programming
Automation NTH
Over the past six years I’ve written posts about a lot of different companies; machine builders (Nalle Automation/NAS, Wright Industries/Doerfer, even my old company ACS), training companies (Automation Training and Udemy), and a whole bunch of controls manufacturers (check out…
Posted in Engineering, Machine Builders and Integrators, Training Tagged with: Automation NTH, conveyors, MTSU, PLC Trainers, training
Are Things too Complicated?
Today’s post is inspired by an ongoing adventure I have been having in the design and fabrication of My Little Factory. For those who haven’t been following my post since the beginning of this year, a great deal of my…
Posted in Automation Concepts, Conveyors, My Little Factory, Photoeyes, Sensors Tagged with: Banner, complicated, Keyence, My Little Factory, photoeyes
Super Vision!
As some of you may know, especially those of you who have known me since the 1990’s, machine vision used to be a major part of my career. I could conservatively say I was part of at least 40-50 vision…
Posted in Applications, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers, vision Tagged with: machine vision, Mapvision
Unitronics
Today’s post, as promised last week, is written by Ryan McCarthy, a reader of this blog. While I always offer to place a reciprocal link to the website of whoever contributes guest posts to this site, amazingly Ryan is neither…
Posted in PLCs, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with: HMI, platforms, PLCs, Ryan McCarthy, U90 Ladder, UniLogic, Unitronics, VisiLogic
Automation Consulting, LLC Open House
When I started this blog back at the end of 2010 I really just did it for fun. At that time I wanted to make sure it contained useful information and was non-commercial in nature. Then I went back into…
Posted in Me, My Little Factory, Sales and Marketing, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with: Automation Consulting, Automation NTH, Automation Training, Mapvision, My Little Factory, Open House, Unitronics
Fabricate – Panel Preparation
Today’s topic is on exactly what happens before you start wiring a control panel. It will also serve as an update on my progress on “My Little Factory”, which has drawn a lot of questions from my readers. As I…
Posted in My Little Factory, Panelbuilding Tagged with: Automation Direct, Emergency Stops, HMI, knockouts, My Little Factory, nibbler, panelbuilding, pushbuttons, stepper bit
My Little Factory – Innovate
The week before last I talked about how I make some of the mechanical things for My Little Factory. A quick update on that: I have managed to make some progress on fabricating the escapements for the indexing conveyor, but…
Posted in My Little Factory, Product Development Tagged with: Arduino, design, IIOT, innovate, inventions, load cell, maker, prototyping, Radio Shack, Raspberry Pi, summing board, Tibbo
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