Starbucks Roastery
A few weeks ago I made a trip to Seattle to visit my daughter Yuki and her family. She used to work at Starbucks’ corporate headquarters, and among other projects was involved in the design and startup of the Roastery, an …
Category: Sales and Marketing
Automation Consulting, LLC Open House
When I started this blog back at the end of 2010 I really just did it for fun. At that time I wanted to make sure it contained useful information and was non-commercial in nature. Then I went back into …
Tagged with: Automation Consulting, Automation NTH, Automation Training, Mapvision, My Little Factory, Open House, Unitronics
Automate/Promat 2017
Earlier this week I had the privilege of attending my second Automate and Promat show in Chicago. I wrote an earlier post on the Automate 2015 show, but when I went back and re-read it I realized that I actually …
Tagged with: ABB, Adept, Arduino, Automate 2017, B&R Automation, Cognex, Doerfer, IIOT, Keyence, Machine Vision, National Instruments, Omron, Parker Automation, Raspberry Pi, Rexroth, Robot, Siemens, SMC, trade shows
So… What Do You Do?
Hello from mushy Sacramento, CA. Flying in this afternoon the whole area looked like a big sponge, everything looked flooded out, and its still raining. And I thought there was a severe drought here… ********************************************** Most people have heard this …
Automate 2015
Back before I got into the integration and machine building business, I worked for a couple of different controls distributors/manufacturer’s representatives. Prior to the invention of the internet by Al Gore, industrial trade shows were the best way for vendors …
Linked In and Networking
A couple of years ago I wrote a post just as I was resurrecting my old company about “The Automation Community”. In this post I mentioned that in all my years of business I had never been able to trace …