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Author: Frank

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

Custom Machine Builders

Frank Sep 9, 2012 Tagged with custom machines, machine building

Sometimes its hard to come up with topics that I haven’t already covered in this blog. …

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Life

Pressure

Frank Sep 2, 2012 Tagged with stress

I know, everyone probably thought this was going to be something on pneumatics or hydraulics, maybe …

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Assembly, Robots, The Book, vision

Vision Guided Robots

Frank Aug 26, 2012 Tagged with Machine Vision, Robot

This week was my first experience using vision and robots together. I have integrated many vision …

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Motion Control

Motion Control

Frank Aug 19, 2012 Tagged with motion control, servo

Following is a subchapter on motion control from my forthcoming book. My philosophy on writing these …

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Life

Learning

Frank Aug 12, 2012 Tagged with learning, training

Most people in the field of automation like solving problems and are naturally curious. Even when …

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Automation Concepts, Controls Design, Machine Design, Software & Programming

What’s in a name?

Frank Aug 5, 2012 Tagged with design, naming, programming, templates

The project I am currently working on is the first one where I have had to …

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Automation Concepts, Engineering, Me, Techniques, The Book

Engineering Philosophy

Frank Jul 22, 2012 Tagged with engineering

Yesterday I had some time to kill while my car was in the shop so I …

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Sensing, Sensors

Encoders and Resolvers

Frank Jul 15, 2012 Tagged with encoder, resolver

Here is another recently rewritten article, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. An …

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Automation Concepts, The Book

The Basics: Analog and Digital

Frank Jul 8, 2012 Tagged with Analog, Digital, sensors, The Basics

Now that I have an end in sight in regards to having my book published, I …

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Me, The Book

The Book will be published!

Frank Jul 1, 2012 Tagged with Industrial Automation, publishing

I received some exciting news Friday… my book proposal was accepted! Here is the e-mail I …

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