Collector of Books
I am Phranc, Collector of Books. Many books have I, and many more have I read. Since I was a child, I have read every evening before bed. This is a habit; one I shall never quit. I read both …
Author: Frank
Electrical Engineer and business owner from the Nashville, Tennessee area. I also play music, Chess and Go.
Collector of Information
I am Phranc, Collector of Information. Much information do I have, I call it “Potential Knowledge”. But it is not real knowledge until it stays in my head. So much information do I have that I can not remember it, …
Collector of Things
I am Phranc, Collector of Things. Many things do I have, I call them “Stuff”. So many things do I have that I sometimes forget I have them. I may then search to find a thing that I think I …
Site Update, Random Stuff
Hi Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls… This site was started as a method of providing industrial automation content to co-workers and friends, then to the public. It was started in January 2011, before I published my first book, and …
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 …
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 …