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The Philosophy of Buy-In

Frank Apr 20, 2014 Tagged with Buy-In, consulting, Lean, politics, Six Sigma, standardization, standards, templates

Whew, finally back from a grueling two-week trip to New Hampshire. In addition to the politics …

Frank Apr 6, 2014 Tagged with Communications, e-mail, Industrial Automation Hands On, Philosophy, phone

Last week I had a bit of fun telling you about my travels to New England. …

Frank Jan 19, 2014 Tagged with ASCII, Communications, concatenation, parsing, PLCs, programming, RS232, RTA, serial, systems integration

Today’s post is in response to Amit’s question on a previous topic about leak testers. He …

Yesterday I received an invitation to attend the International Automation Exhibition 2014 to be held in …

Frank Dec 22, 2013 Tagged with contracting, Debug, Evana, HMI, machine building, PLCs, standardization, startup, templates

After spending the last several months working on some of my entrepreneurial ideas and teaching PLC …

Frank Dec 15, 2013 Tagged with Bussman, circuit breakers, design, Ferraz-Shawmut, fuses, Littelfuse, panelbuilding

Continuing the topic on motor control circuit design I started a few weeks ago, today’s topic …

Frank Dec 8, 2013 Tagged with circuit breakers, MCP, Motor Control, MPCB, overloads

Today’s post continues a series on electrical design that I started last week. Saravanan asked a …

Frank Nov 29, 2013 Tagged with Allen-Bradley, circuit breakers, design, fuses, Motor Control, Siemens, starter, VFD

Today’s topic is in response to Saravanan who posted a request last week on my “Panel …

Frank Nov 10, 2013 Tagged with Automation Solutions, guest posts, PLCs, programming, safety

Today’s article is a guest post from Automation Solutions, a Melbourne, Australia-based company. If you would …

Frank Nov 3, 2013 Tagged with Denver, p&id, process, training, Water Treatment

Last week I mentioned that I would be traveling to Denver to do some work in …