Happy New Year! (Help Wanted?)
Wow, it’s been a crazy year! As with most years, I generally use the holidays to take stock of what the previous year or years have brought and make plans for the upcoming year. I have mentioned the changes that …
Author: Frank
Electrical Engineer and business owner from the Nashville, Tennessee area. I also play music, Chess and Go.
Machine Vision and The Vision Show
On October 12 this year at the end of a trip to the Northeast I had the pleasure of attending The Vision Show, a trade show that occurs annually in Boston, MA. You can check out my recap of the …
YouTube Webinars
Hey folks, you may have wondered why I don’t post here as much anymore… of course I work a lot, and that’s part of it. I do 2 weeks a month at Automation NTH… mostly content development and training. I …
Beckhoff Video
This was last week’s Mastering the Machine video on the Beckhoff PLC platform and TwinCAT. I am working on the programming part, it should be out in a few weeks. If you want a copy of the document I showed …
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Book
My new book is out! The title as you can see above is Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Industrial Automation, and it is for sale at Amazon and other bookstores. This is the fifth book I have produced that has an …
What Is Industrial Automation?
This is a guest post from PWR, a company located in Scotland and The Netherlands. Industrial automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to minimize or eliminate the need for human intervention in the production of …
Happy New Year!
I know it’s a week late, but I hope everyone is getting off to a good start this year. I had a couple of people join me the morning of New Years Eve for my Mastering the Machine webinar, you …
PLCnext Webinar
Friday, November 19, 2021 was the one year anniversary of the Automation Academy, my system integration training website! I do these webinars every two weeks as live Zoom events, part of the Academy’s events. This webinar was on PLCnext, Phoenix …
The Future Of Smart Sensors In Manufacturing
This is a guest post from Keyence, a manufacturer of sensors, gauges and control devices. ********************************************************************************************** We live in an increasingly data-driven world, and the manufacturing and automation industries are no exception. As businesses in these fields strive to keep …
Webinars and YouTube
This is the latest Mastering the Machine video on YouTube, I have been doing these every two weeks for almost a year now. The topic was Pi-Plates and NodeRED and as usual I learned a lot from my guest, Jerry …