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Tag: brainstorming

Applications, Applications, quoting

Applications and Inventions

Frank Feb 1, 2015 Tagged with applications, brainstorming, inventions, PoP - Proof of Principal, quoting and bidding

This week’s post is intended to explain a little bit about the applications process machine builders use when quoting custom machinery. Just because a machine is customized to produce a specific product doesn’t mean it is unique or necessarily qualifies …

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Machine Design, Product Development, quoting

Design By Committee

Frank Oct 26, 2014 Tagged with brainstorming, feasibility study, Web Handling

Several years ago at my previous employer, I was tasked to do a feasibility study for a large consumer products company. Their patent was about to expire on a product used in the medical field and their marketing department had …

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Applications, Lean Manufacturing

Process Types

Frank Dec 11, 2011 Tagged with asynchronous, brainstorming, continuous, design, process, synchronous

In designing automated systems the first task that needs to be accomplished is to determine what type of process will be taking place. Often when making this decision we go with what we know: if building an assembly machine I’m …

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Applications, Consulting, quoting

Applications

Frank Jun 5, 2011 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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Applications, Controls Design

Hello from Tucson

Frank Mar 17, 2011 Tagged with brainstorming, travel

As I travel on business I realized that it is more difficult to post when on the road. All of the familiar patterns are broken as I don’t have a ready plugged-in and booted up computer to sit down and …

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