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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 one form or another. In 1996 when I had a lot more energy and less common sense, I started my own integration business that …

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Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators

Lessons in Automation Part IV

Frank Jan 22, 2012 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 III

Frank Jan 15, 2012 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

Frank Jan 8, 2012 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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Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators, Travel

Lessons of Automation Part I

Frank Jan 1, 2012 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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Me, Travel, Website

Legacy – The Tower

Frank Dec 8, 2011 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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Vendors and Manufacturers

More About Japan

Frank May 15, 2011 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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Lean Manufacturing, Poka-Yoke, Techniques

Japanese Words…

Frank May 11, 2011 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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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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