Engineering Philosophy
Yesterday I had some time to kill while my car was in the shop so I brought my notebook with me to do a little brainstorming. My wife and I had discussed some of her work situation in the morning …
Author: Frank
Electrical Engineer and business owner from the Nashville, Tennessee area. I also play music, Chess and Go.
Encoders and Resolvers
Here is another recently rewritten article, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. An Encoder is a type of transducer that senses position or orientation, usually for use as a reference or active feedback to control position. Encoders …
The Basics: Analog and Digital
Now that I have an end in sight in regards to having my book published, I have been going back over various parts of the manuscript and doing some editing. I have already done this a few times to the …
The Book will be published!
I received some exciting news Friday… my book proposal was accepted! Here is the e-mail I received: “Good news. I just wanted to let you now that your proposal was approved with flying colors! Congratulations! I’m in the process of …
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
As part of my job I have often been tasked with gathering information pertaining to machine or production line performance, production data or implementation of SCADA systems. Most of the time my job ends at the plant floor and others …
Time Management
As I wind down on my current project and start working on my next I am feeling the stress of having too many things to do and not enough time to do them in. My next job involves system integration …
Gage R & R
This past week I spent most of my time putting finishing touches on the program for the system I am working on. The three machines in the system are running fairly well though as they are put through their paces …
Leak and Flow Testing
Over my 17 years or so of building automated machinery I have worked with a lot of leak, pressure and flow testing equipment. Some applications were quite simple and didn’t require purchasing a packaged system such as the Cosmo leak …
Standardization
In several of my previous posts I have touched on this subject indirectly. As I finish up on my current project I am reminded of how every system has its own challenges and seems different from every other machine or …
Update On The Primer
For those who have been following my blog for a while you are aware of the evolution of my book The Automation Primer and some of the things I have been doing on the path to getting it published. Late …