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Category: Consulting

A Change of Direction

By Frank Posted on July 14, 2013 Posted in Consulting, Contracting, Life, Me, Panelbuilding, The Book, Website Tagged with blogging, contracting, education, Industrial Automation Hands On, teaching, travel

For the past 20 years I have been involved in the automation and machine-building industry in one form or another. In 1996 when I had a lot more energy and less common sense, I started my own integration business that …

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Death of a Website

By Frank Posted on January 21, 2013 Posted in Consulting, Me, Website Tagged with blogging, consulting, contracting, Wordpress

Well, its not really dead, but after having a developer make a nice professional site for me last year for my business, I replaced it today with a WordPress site so I could manage it myself. In last week’s post …

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Tennessee Association of Independent Integrators

By Frank Posted on April 8, 2012 Posted in Consulting, Contracting, Panelbuilding, TAII Tagged with TAII

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been contracting with a machine builder about an hour from where I live. This project will probably take until some time in May and maybe beyond. During this time it is …

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Contracting

By Frank Posted on April 1, 2012 Posted in Consulting, Contracting, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with contracting

I’ve been back working for myself again now for about 2 months since returning from my trip to Central America. For the first 6 weeks or so I was pretty busy setting up my office, networking and doing some small …

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The Automation Community

By Frank Posted on February 12, 2012 Posted in Business, Consulting, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Linked In, networking, sales, Social Networks

As I begin establishing my new automation business I have been using the old tried and true technique of networking to reach out to potential customers. When I started my previous business in 1996 the internet was not nearly as …

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Wright Industries and Doerfer

By Frank Posted on December 18, 2011 Posted in Consulting, Machine Builders and Integrators, Website Tagged with Automation Consulting, custom machines, vendors, Wright Industries

Since this week was my last week at my former employer, Wright Industries I thought I’d talk a bit about the company and what they do. Wright is located in Nashville, Tennessee and is part of the Doerfer companies group. …

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Automation Consulting

By Frank Posted on December 4, 2011 Posted in Consulting, Machine Builders and Integrators, Website Tagged with Automation, consulting, education

Only two weeks left at my current employer. I have learned a lot there, and if I had to work for someone else there is nowhere better in my opinion. At the same time I have really missed having full …

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Six Sigma and Lean – What have I learned?

By Frank Posted on November 13, 2011 Posted in Consulting, Lean Manufacturing Tagged with Six Sigma

This was the final week of my Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing courses through Purdue University. I took my final exam this morning and I’m happy to say that I aced the test, though since it was open book that’s …

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What do Systems Engineers do?

By Frank Posted on July 29, 2011 Posted in Consulting, Integration, Trades Tagged with systems integration

So I’m still out in Tucson writing specifications for a pretty big integration job that’s coming up quickly. This is really not my forte’, I’m more of a design and programming sort of guy. What my days have consisted of …

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Applications

By Frank Posted on June 5, 2011 Posted in Applications, Consulting, quoting Tagged with brainstorming, quoting and bidding

My goal is to become a national and international resource and as such I am hoping to expand my network considerably. Please contact me if you wish to become part of my new automation solutions network.

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