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Author: Frank

Electrical Engineer and business owner from the Nashville, Tennessee area. I also play music, Chess and Go.

Automation Update December 2017

By Frank Posted on December 17, 2017 Posted in Me, My Little Factory, Training Tagged with Automation NTH, Automation Training, My Little Factory, training

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. While things are going pretty well for me right now, I’ve had a really rough past few months. I think the longest I’ve gone before without posting was a couple of weeks maybe, …

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Loving Your Automation

By Frank Posted on September 24, 2017 Posted in Business, Philosophies, Thoughts Tagged with Loving Your Automation, pride in work, wiring

This week’s post is not really on automation, or anything technical. A couple of days ago I visited a local plant at the invitation of a consultant who is working with their management team to improve their processes. While this …

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My New Trainers!

By Frank Posted on September 17, 2017 Posted in My Little Factory, PLCs, Trainers, Training Tagged with Automation NTH, education, My Little Factory, PLC Trainers, training

Well, its official. I have my first actual PLC trainers, in addition to the ones on the wall in My Little Factory. I think they’re awesome! They did take 8 weeks to build, but as more are made I think …

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Advanced PLC Training using Industrial Equipment

By Frank Posted on September 10, 2017 Posted in Training Tagged with Allen-Bradley, AOI, PLCs, programming, templates, UDT

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

By Frank Posted on August 17, 2017 Posted in Me, Sensing, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Balluff, Carlo Gavazzi, Control Engineering, Frank Lamb, Sensor Webcast, sensors

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 …

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Ladder Logic 208: System Routine 2

By Frank Posted on August 13, 2017 Posted in PLCs, Software & Programming Tagged with Auto Cycle, ladder logic, PLC Pulse Train, PLCs, programming

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 …

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Automation NTH

By Frank Posted on July 23, 2017 Posted in Engineering, Machine Builders and Integrators, Training Tagged with Automation NTH, conveyors, MTSU, PLC Trainers, training

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 …

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Are Things too Complicated?

By Frank Posted on July 9, 2017 Posted in Automation Concepts, Conveyors, My Little Factory, Photoeyes, Sensors Tagged with Banner, complicated, Keyence, My Little Factory, photoeyes

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 …

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Super Vision!

By Frank Posted on June 27, 2017 Posted in Applications, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers, vision Tagged with machine vision, Mapvision

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 …

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Unitronics

By Frank Posted on June 11, 2017 Posted in PLCs, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with HMI, platforms, PLCs, Ryan McCarthy, U90 Ladder, UniLogic, Unitronics, VisiLogic

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 …

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