The Squirrel and Marketing
I have been acquainted with the squirrel for a long time. In the 1960s I am fairly sure it once ate my homework. Some of my friends who have been diagnosed with ADHD, ADD or are “on the spectrum” have …
Category: Techniques
What’s Up: Office-House Modifications and Used Equipment
A couple of weeks ago I put a video out on YouTube discussing what to do with used and surplus industrial automation equipment. I am not going to discuss this today, though I could certainly use some help dealing with …
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Back to Basics 5: Industrial Training
In 2013, not long after leaving Wright Industries and going back out on my own, I taught my first PLC class for Automation Training, a Canadian company. I drove to Raleigh, NC, unpacked the equipment and set it up. It …
Back to Basics 3: Design
Everything that is accomplished in industrial automation requires design. It may be written on a napkin, but there is still thought required before starting a project. Industrial Automation Design Tools: CAD: My first CAD tool that I used was Autosketch, …
The Art of Learning
My last webinar for the Automation Academy covered a lot of what I want to talk about today, you can check it out here. I spent a lot of the last couple of months studying Ignition, a SCADA programming software …
Advanced HMI and Training
Several years ago I posted on Advanced HMI and described what it is, how you can get it and where I was at the time on developing a training HMI. The picture above shows where I am now. I finally …
Mastering the Machine Workshops
The Mastering the Machine Workshops are a series of lectures and hands-on lab exercises with the goal of training students on system integration, design, and programming in industrial automation. In last week’s post, the process of learning industrial automation skills …
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Book
My new book is out! The title as you can see above is Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Industrial Automation, and it is for sale at Amazon and other bookstores. This is the fifth book I have produced that has an …
What Is Industrial Automation?
This is a guest post from PWR, a company located in Scotland and The Netherlands. Industrial automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to minimize or eliminate the need for human intervention in the production of …
The Art of Prototyping
It has been a couple of months since I posted here, some may have wondered if I am still keeping up this blog… Actually I have been actively posting on Linked In, YouTube and my Facebook group, but its a …