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 …
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 …
In 2013, I created a document called Mastering the Machine, a 26 page e-book about planning and building a machine or production line with an emphasis on documentation. I had just started my business again after spending 6 years working …
Last week someone commented on a 2015 post on starting an automation related business, and I realized I hadn’t written much on the topic since then. I think I hit most of the highlights of what I wanted to say …
After months of work I am happy to announce the formal opening of the Automation Academy on November 19, 2020. I have explained in previous posts why I created this site, in this post I mostly want to just show …
I have had an eye opening experience now that I have opened the Automation Academy to a few people. I started with a list of 34 people who showed interest in my new membership site. I sent e-mails and several …
