Happy New Year!
Hard to believe, but its been almost two years since I started this blog! I really wasn’t sure what this was going to be when I started. I had begun writing my book in about September of 2010 as a …
Category: Me
Automation Fair
As part of my picture-collecting for the book I decided to attend the Allen-Bradley Automation Fair again this year. I have attended the last few years in Orlando, Chicago and Nashville; this year it was in Philadelphia. There are always …
Kaizen
A major element of Lean methodology is Kaizen, or “improvement”. The term can refer to a continuous process or to a planned improvement event concentrating on a specific target. From the Industrial Automation: Hands On manuscript: Continuous improvement, or Kaizen, …
Engineering Philosophy
Yesterday I had some time to kill while my car was in the shop so I brought my notebook with me to do a little brainstorming. My wife and I had discussed some of her work situation in the morning …
The Book will be published!
I received some exciting news Friday… my book proposal was accepted! Here is the e-mail I received: “Good news. I just wanted to let you now that your proposal was approved with flying colors! Congratulations! I’m in the process of …
Update On The Primer
For those who have been following my blog for a while you are aware of the evolution of my book The Automation Primer and some of the things I have been doing on the path to getting it published. Late …
Engineering
I started my technical career in the US Air Force. I joined when I was 21 years old after holding a series of minimum wage jobs after failing to graduate high school and getting my GED in 1978. The military …
Life…
I has now been about 14 months since I started this blog and I’ve covered a lot of different subjects. I try to make the content as automation-related as possible but it is getting more and more difficult to cover …
Lessons of Automation Part I
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 …
Legacy – The Tower
I just finished reading a free e-book from Chris Guillebeau’s website “The Art of Non-Conformity“. Chris is a motivational guy who really has a unique take on life and how we don’t always need to conform to what others think …