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Happy New Year! (Help Wanted?)

By Frank Posted on December 31, 2022 Posted in Business, Me, The Automation Academy, Thoughts, Website Tagged with admin, content creation, contracting, marketing

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 …

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Is OEE Enough?

By Frank Posted on March 9, 2021 Posted in Automation Concepts, Machine Builders and Integrators, Me, The Automation Academy Tagged with MES, OEE, systems integration

OEE, or Overall Equipment Effectiveness, is the percentage of manufacturing time that is productive. It is composed of three parts: Availability – The percentage of time the process is running during planned production time Performance – The percentage of production …

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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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Grand Reopening/Virtual Tour

By Frank Posted on July 5, 2020 Posted in Me, The Course Tagged with industrial Education, My Office

Well, it’s official! I have moved into my new business location, and have already had my first student for two days of class! I hesitate to call it my office or training facility because it’s actually an old house… but …

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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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All About Automation – Essen, 2019

By Frank Posted on June 9, 2019 Posted in Travel, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Essen, Fischertechnik, trade shows

Last week I attended a trade show in Essen, Germany. It was a fairly small one as trade shows go, but the company Fischertechnik, whose models I use for my training simulators, was there and I needed to discuss some …

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Automation Update December 2017

By Frank Posted on December 17, 2017 Posted in Me, My Little Factory, Training Tagged with Automation NTH, Automation Training, My Little Factory, training

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. While things are going pretty well for me right now, I’ve had a really rough past few months. I think the longest I’ve gone before without posting was a couple of weeks maybe, …

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Live Sensors Webcast for Control Engineering

By Frank Posted on August 17, 2017 Posted in Me, Sensing, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Balluff, Carlo Gavazzi, Control Engineering, Frank Lamb, Sensor Webcast, sensors

Hey, this Frank Lamb from Automation Primer. I will be doing a webcast for Control Engineering magazine on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 2 p.m. EST (1 p.m. CST, 11 a.m. PST, I can’t tell you MST because it’s a …

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