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Business, Me, The Automation Academy, Thoughts, Website

Happy New Year! (Help Wanted?)

Frank Dec 31, 2022 Tagged with admin, content creation, contracting, marketing

Wow, it’s been a crazy year! As with most years, I generally use the holidays to …

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Consulting, Contracting, Me, Training, Travel

Teaching and Consulting

Frank Mar 20, 2016 Tagged with Automation Consulting, Automation Training, consulting, contracting, education, training

Four years ago I relaunched my old company, Automation Consulting Services, Inc. as Automation Consulting, LLC. …

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Business, Machine Builders and Integrators, Me

Tips on Starting an Automation Business

Frank Sep 13, 2015 Tagged with business, consulting, contracting, machine building, panelbuilding, sales

Today’s post is in response to Barry Brock, who asked: “I have been doing machine modifications …

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Applications, Automation Concepts, Contracting, Machine Builders and Integrators, Software & Programming, troubleshooting

More Startup and Debug

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 …

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Consulting, Contracting, Life, Me, Panelbuilding, The Book, Website

A Change of Direction

Frank Jul 14, 2013 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 …

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Consulting, Me, Website

Death of a Website

Frank Jan 21, 2013 Tagged with blogging, consulting, contracting, Wordpress

Well, its not really dead, but after having a developer make a nice professional site for …

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Consulting, Contracting, Machine Builders and Integrators

Contracting

Frank Apr 1, 2012 Tagged with contracting

I’ve been back working for myself again now for about 2 months since returning from my …

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Life, Me, Thoughts

Life…

Frank Mar 18, 2012 Tagged with contracting, life

I has now been about 14 months since I started this blog and I’ve covered a …

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