John Shipley's Bio
Director of Operations, Indiana
John Shipley has been with Patti Engineering since 2016 and is the Senior Electrical Engineer and Director of Indiana Operations. With over 25 years of experience in controls and industrial automation in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Machine Tool, Material Handling, and Steel industries, he is an expert in his craft.
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Read the eBook Now Have you ever wondered how the addition of a robot to your manufacturing flow might help address your current production issues? Are you unsure of how, and where to start researching the topic? This eBook is...
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Sometimes a client needs a solution to a problem, but does not know what or how to go about developing one. Patti Engineering offers engineering studies as a service to work as an ally and expand our clients’ engineering team,...
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On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 11:00 AM CT, John Shipley will be joining Automation World to present a webinar about a recent project. Summary In this webinar, Patti Engineering will explore how a manufacturing facility used a high-frequency RFID...
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Here’s the situation: you are on site, working on a project. You have encountered equipment that is nearly as old as you are and you're not sure how to program it. None of your colleagues is familiar with it, and...
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Note: In March 2018, Siemens acquired the leader in RTLS technology, Agilion. Have you ever spent hours searching your facility for a special piece of tooling that you know is in the plant somewhere? Or have you ever thought about...
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Blog post by Senior Electrical Engineer John Shipley Are you familiar with ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID)? UHF RFID is rapidly becoming the new standard for identification to improve efficiency, increase visibility to drive “smart” manufacturing. Processes utilizing...
BlogControl Systems Integration
Blog post by John Shipley As system integrators, there are multiple times when you will be tasked to learn something completely new. There’s no other feeling like opening a project and going, “What in the world is going on?” The...
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Blog post by Nick Hobbs, Business Development When manufacturing facilities are discussing new automation, there is sometimes the perception that upgrading is too expensive. Many facilities tend to look at the investment required – and that indeed can be a...
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This is a chapter in our eBook, Your Guide to Implementing UHF RFID and it was written by Ian Mogab, Controls Engineer. Implementing a UHF RFID project can bring huge improvements to your process, but it requires careful planning and...
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This is a chapter in our eBook, Your Guide to Implementing UHF RFID and it was written by Ian Mogab, Controls Engineer. With UHF RFID becoming the new standard for identification and tracking in manufacturing facilities, many plant managers are...
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What's so great about UHF RFID? If you are looking for a way to collect more data in your manufacturing facility, you may want to look into UHF RFID. This identification technology offers several advantages over barcodes or traditional HF...
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This is the first chapter in our eBook, Your Guide to Implementing UHF RFID and it was written by Ian Mogab, Controls Engineer. What is UHF RFID? Many manufacturers are looking to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) as a solution to...
