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 …
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Is OEE Enough?
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 …
Random Thoughts Video
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 …
Grand Reopening/Virtual Tour
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 …
Working from Home
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 …
Coping with Change
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 …
Devastation…
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, …
All About Automation – Essen, 2019
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 …
Automation Update December 2017
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, …
Live Sensors Webcast for Control Engineering
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 …