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Teaching the Teachers

By Frank Posted on April 6, 2016 Posted in Training 2 Comments

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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Tagged with: aluminum extrusion, Automation Training, Hydraulic, Pellissippi, PLC programming, pneumatics, Siemens, training

The Bite Too Big to Chew

By Frank Posted on April 17, 2011 Posted in Machine Design, quoting 2 Comments

This is the loading station of a machine that was one of the last jobs I did with my small machine building company. It is a precision hydraulic press for torque converters. During the years of 2005-2006 we had acquired …

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Tagged with: education, Hydraulic, quoting and bidding

A Metalforming Application

By Frank Posted on February 6, 2011 Posted in Applications, Hydraulics, Metalforming No Comments

I decided to write a little about my first metal-forming job after receiving an e-mail from a gentleman in India who has been in the metalforming business for 43 years (hello Ananth!) It reminded me of some of the good …

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Tagged with: Hydraulic, Metal, Rollforming

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Teaching the Teachers

The Bite Too Big to Chew

A Metalforming Application