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Tag: aluminum extrusion

Teaching the Teachers

By Frank Posted on April 6, 2016 Posted in Training Tagged with aluminum extrusion, Automation Training, Hydraulic, Pellissippi, PLC programming, pneumatics, Siemens, training

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of teaching a Siemens S7 advanced class for Automation Training to some of the professors in my old home town of Knoxville. They were from several of the area colleges and vo-tech …

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Details

By Frank Posted on March 17, 2013 Posted in Engineering, Machine Builders and Integrators, troubleshooting Tagged with aluminum extrusion, Debug, details, engineering

Not long after starting the original Automation Consulting in 1996 I met a machine builder in Knoxville who taught me a great deal about machine building. When we started working together there were only a few of us and sometimes …

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Misumi

By Frank Posted on August 28, 2011 Posted in Extrusion, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with aluminum extrusion, gauging, Misumi, Tinkertoys, vendors

Despite being an Electrical and Controls engineer I often have to do mechanical design, albeit on a basic level. Whenever I need to fixture something, for instance on a vision application or other inspection, one of the first manufacturers I …

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Binder Processing

By Frank Posted on April 24, 2011 Posted in Assembly, Extrusion, Packaging Tagged with aluminum extrusion, servo

This is another machine built with NAS in about the 1998-1999 time frame. As you can tell, NAS was a huge user of aluminum extrusion; for about 5 years or so the were the biggest 80-20 customer in East Tennessee. …

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Leak Tester

By Frank Posted on April 10, 2011 Posted in gauging, Test Equipment, vision Tagged with aluminum extrusion, gauging, Machine Vision, pressure testing

This is another application done with NAS from about 1998. We did a lot of vision, gauging and leak testing applications for Tennex, a Japanese cooperative venture in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This company has since been bought by Mahle, a German …

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