McGraw-Hill, Reviewers and the Final Manuscript
In last weeks post, I mentioned that I had made a trip to New York to …
Author: Frank
Electrical Engineer and business owner from the Nashville, Tennessee area. I also play music, Chess and Go.
Panel Layout and Electrical Design
I had planned on writing a bit about my meeting with the publisher last week, but …
Automation Fair
As part of my picture-collecting for the book I decided to attend the Allen-Bradley Automation Fair …
The Future of Automation
As I mentioned in my post last week, I recently read a few articles on the …
Kaizen
A major element of Lean methodology is Kaizen, or “improvement”. The term can refer to a …
Ladder Logic 102: Organization
*Note: This post was written in October of 2012. Since that time I have written a …
Finally…
It took about three months from when I was told my manuscript was accepted, but I …
CE Marking and the Machinery Directive
Last week I covered some of the US safety standards that apply to to machine building. …
Safety Standards
When designing machinery for automated processes, one of the most important factors to consider is the …
Custom Machine Builders
Sometimes its hard to come up with topics that I haven’t already covered in this blog. …