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Category: Life

Random Thoughts Video

By Frank Posted on March 4, 2021 Posted in Life, Me, System Integration Tagged with Automation Academy, systems integration

I recorded this video while driving from my home in Lebanon, Tennessee to visit a customer in Knoxville. It is the day before the one-year anniversary of the tornado, and I just kind of discussed the stuff that I have …

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Working from Home

By Frank Posted on April 12, 2020 Posted in Life, Me, My Little Factory, Trainers Tagged with Allen-Bradley, COVID19, Fischertechnik, Micrologix, PLC Videos, RSLogix, SLC500, tornado

A friend of mine, Shawn Tierney from The Automation Blog challenged us on Linked In to post a picture of our hobby space, the place where we spend our time at home when we aren’t working. In my case, since …

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Coping with Change

By Frank Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in Life, Me, Random Thoughts Tagged with change, COVID19, pandemic, tornado

Last month was quite a whirlwind for me, if you’ll pardon the expression. First there was a tornado that paid a visit on March 3, and now Covid19. Like everyone else, my daily routine has been disrupted. I had a …

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Devastation…

By Frank Posted on March 12, 2020 Posted in Life, Me, My Little Factory Tagged with Automation Consulting, tornado

As some of you may be aware, several tornadoes ripped through Middle Tennessee last week. Unfortunately, my training facility and office took a direct hit and was completely destroyed. I live about a mile and a half from my office, …

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Update – Excuses…

By Frank Posted on October 14, 2018 Posted in Life, Random Thoughts

So I guess its pretty obvious I haven’t posted for a while… and I really don’t have any good excuses. Of course I still travel a lot, and I am still working on a lot of projects when I’m in …

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Happy New Year 2017!

By Frank Posted on January 1, 2017 Posted in Life, Thoughts Tagged with 2017, education, goals, learning, New Year planning, training

Well, its that time again where people around the world review the last year and make plans for the new one to come. While this can be done at any time of year, people often choose this particular day to …

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More on Life…

By Frank Posted on September 7, 2014 Posted in Life, Me, Travel Tagged with business, systems integration, training, travel

As I get older I often spend time thinking about the way my life has gone. I started with many advantages; I was born in one of the richest countries in the world during the most interesting… or at least …

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New England Adventures

By Frank Posted on March 30, 2014 Posted in Life, Me, Travel Tagged with Boston, Maine, New England, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, travel

I think I mentioned in a previous post that I’ve been traveling a lot lately. By my calculations I’ve been out of town for all but four weeks since last September. I work for myself, so there’s no-one to blame …

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A Change of Direction

By Frank Posted on July 14, 2013 Posted in Consulting, Contracting, Life, Me, Panelbuilding, The Book, Website Tagged with blogging, contracting, education, Industrial Automation Hands On, teaching, travel

For the past 20 years I have been involved in the automation and machine-building industry in one form or another. In 1996 when I had a lot more energy and less common sense, I started my own integration business that …

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Misuse of Tools

By Frank Posted on May 5, 2013 Posted in Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Life Tagged with design, Lean, tools

There has never been a better time to be an engineer when it comes to the tools available to help us in our jobs. Computers operate at amazing speeds, new software comes out every year with more and more capability …

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