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Lessons of Automation Part III

By Frank Posted on January 15, 2012 Posted in Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with Alliance Automated Systems, history, Meikle Automation, travel

Since I am out of the country for a few weeks I am featuring some writing from Doug Alward, Applications Engineer from Wright Industries. I have prepared these excerpts from the introduction to Doug’s book ahead of time; as you …

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Lessons of Automation Part II

By Frank Posted on January 8, 2012 Posted in Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators Tagged with history, travel

Since I am out of the country for a few weeks I am featuring some writing from Doug Alward, Applications Engineer from Wright Industries. I have prepared these excerpts from the introduction to Doug’s book ahead of time; as you …

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Lessons of Automation Part I

By Frank Posted on January 1, 2012 Posted in Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators, Travel Tagged with history, travel

Since I am out of the country for a few weeks I am featuring some writing from Doug Alward, Applications Engineer from Wright Industries. I have prepared these excerpts from the introduction to Doug’s book ahead of time; as you …

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Legacy – The Tower

By Frank Posted on December 8, 2011 Posted in Me, Travel, Website Tagged with travel

I just finished reading a free e-book from Chris Guillebeau’s website “The Art of Non-Conformity“. Chris is a motivational guy who really has a unique take on life and how we don’t always need to conform to what others think …

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More About Japan

By Frank Posted on May 15, 2011 Posted in Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Japan, travel

As mentioned in my previous post I recently took a trip to Japan. If you have ever been or plan to go there is something you should know: in general, the Japanese love gadgets and automation. The picture above is …

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Japanese Words…

By Frank Posted on May 11, 2011 Posted in Lean Manufacturing, Poka-Yoke, Techniques Tagged with Japan, kaizen, kanban, poka-yoke, travel

For all of my thousands of followers I’m sure you all noticed that I didn’t post for the last couple of weeks. I spent some time on a badly needed vacation, visiting Seattle and Japan. As mentioned in a previous …

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Hello from Tucson

By Frank Posted on March 17, 2011 Posted in Applications, Controls Design 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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