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Category: Machine Builders and Integrators

Machine builders (custom and OEM), system integrators and other non-vendor automation companies.

ATS Automation

By Frank Posted on September 8, 2013 Posted in Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with ATS, ATS Automation, custom machines, machine building, systems integration, templates

When I was at Wright Industries, one of the companies that we often competed against for projects was ATS Automation. Though Doerfer and Wright are very large as far as custom machine-building companies go, ATS is a much larger organization. …

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Mastering the Machine

By Frank Posted on May 19, 2013 Posted in Machine Builders and Integrators, Software & Programming, Website Tagged with blogging, business, ladder logic

If you visit this sight regularly you may have noticed a change in the sidebar; there is now a button that says “Download Mastering the Machine”. I wrote in a previous post about changes I am making to both this …

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Details

By Frank Posted on March 17, 2013 Posted in Engineering, Machine Builders and Integrators, troubleshooting Tagged with aluminum extrusion, Debug, details, engineering

Not long after starting the original Automation Consulting in 1996 I met a machine builder in Knoxville who taught me a great deal about machine building. When we started working together there were only a few of us and sometimes …

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Machine Builders and Integrators

By Frank Posted on February 24, 2013 Posted in Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with custom machines, machine building, systems integration

This morning I decided to update the list of machine builders and integrators under the resources tab of this site. There is a definite bias in this list that leans towards companies in Tennessee, and an additional bias towards companies …

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Custom Machine Builders

By Frank Posted on September 9, 2012 Posted in Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with custom machines, machine building

Sometimes its hard to come up with topics that I haven’t already covered in this blog. I have already discussed custom machinery in various different topics over the last couple of years, but today I decided to just do a …

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Contracting

By Frank Posted on April 1, 2012 Posted in Consulting, Contracting, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with contracting

I’ve been back working for myself again now for about 2 months since returning from my trip to Central America. For the first 6 weeks or so I was pretty busy setting up my office, networking and doing some small …

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Packaging & Nalle Automation

By Frank Posted on March 11, 2012 Posted in Extrusion, Machine Assembly and Fabrication, Machine Builders and Integrators, Packaging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with networking, packaging, vendors

This week I made my first sales trip for my new consulting company. I returned to Knoxville where I had my old company ACS for 10 years and paid a visit to several old customers and friends. If you have …

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Lessons in Automation Part IV

By Frank Posted on January 22, 2012 Posted in Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with history, travel

Since I am out of the country for a few weeks I am featuring some writing from Doug Alward, Applications Engineer from Wright Industries. I have prepared these excerpts from the introduction to Doug’s book ahead of time; as you …

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Lessons of Automation Part III

By Frank Posted on January 15, 2012 Posted in Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with Alliance Automated Systems, history, Meikle Automation, travel

Since I am out of the country for a few weeks I am featuring some writing from Doug Alward, Applications Engineer from Wright Industries. I have prepared these excerpts from the introduction to Doug’s book ahead of time; as you …

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Lessons of Automation Part II

By Frank Posted on January 8, 2012 Posted in Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with history, travel

Since I am out of the country for a few weeks I am featuring some writing from Doug Alward, Applications Engineer from Wright Industries. I have prepared these excerpts from the introduction to Doug’s book ahead of time; as you …

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