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Panel Layout and Electrical Design

By Frank Posted on November 18, 2012 Posted in CAD, Controls Design, Panelbuilding Tagged with CAD, design, engineering, panelbuilding, wiring

I had planned on writing a bit about my meeting with the publisher last week, but I received a comment on a post from about a year and a half ago on Controls Specifications. Doug asked me to cover a …

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Electrical and Controls Specifications

By Frank Posted on June 26, 2011 Posted in Controls Design, Panelbuilding Tagged with panelbuilding, specifications, wiring

Recently my wife took a job with a multinational OEM as a panelbuilder. This company recently built a new plant in our area and moved their panelbuilding operation here from Texas. They build custom refrigeration equipment and the associated compressors …

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Panelbuilding

By Frank Posted on March 27, 2011 Posted in Panelbuilding Tagged with panelbuilding, tools

This picture is from about 1999 when my small company was primarily a panel shop and controls integrator. At this time about half of our work came from NAS who built a lot of custom packaging equipment (they build mostly …

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A few thoughts on panelbuilding…

By Frank Posted on February 10, 2011 Posted in Panelbuilding, Trades Tagged with panelbuilding, wiring

It seems like there is a constant battle between mechanical designers, electrical designers, maintenance technicians and engineers over just what a properly fabricated control panel should look like. If it were up to mechanical, the panel would be the size …

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