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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Wow, it’s been a while since I posted… That’s because I’ve been creating lots of content for the Automation Academy, and I am writing a new book on industrial maintenance and troubleshooting. Both require a lot of writing, pictures, and …
As I approach the one year anniversary of the tornado and the onset of Covid-19, I can’t help but think of how my training approach has changed. Automation Training classes have been few and much smaller, and of course they …
Our guest at Friday’s Mastering the Machine event at the Automation Academy was Doug Alward, Senior Applications Engineer (retired) at Wright Industries. Doug has a wealth of experience in the applications field and shared all kinds of insights on what …
Today’s post is a guest post from Allied Analytics, LLP. Overview: The infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has infected approximately 62.8 million people globally with 1.46 million fatalities since December …
Today’s post is in response to a request for help on a social media technical forum. Here is a picture of the Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) the person needed help with: and here is what they wrote: “How can i …
After months of being out of the training environment due to the pandemic, September took me back on the road. In addition to standard training classes for Automation Training (Siemens and Omron), I was approached by a customer to do …
