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Samuel M. Hoff, Chief Executive Officer, started the company from his home in 1991. Since then he’s expanded his business to more than 35 college-degreed engineers. Patti Engineering has engineering offices in Auburn Hills, MI, Austin, TX, and Indianapolis, IN.
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Patti Engineering has unveiled its newly redesigned website to elevate user experience and provide easy access to our decades of knowledge in automation and digitalization. Featuring a brand-new logo, the website allows visitors to explore Patti Engineering’s core solutions and areas...
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Check out Patti Engineering's new logo! Our sleek new design reflects our commitment to innovation and excellence in control systems integration and digitalization. We remain the same company at our core, holding rigorous standards and striving to provide exceptional solutions...
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You’re probably no stranger to Industry 4.0 and its ability to transform traditional manufacturing processes. Patti Engineering utilizes Industry 4.0 and digitalization technologies to increase efficiency and productivity, reduce costs, and improve the overall quality of products across a wide...
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"With Ignition, Patti Engineering helped us reduce up-front costs and total cost of ownership. We were able to create everything in one environment and train our employees on a single system, rather than using multiple systems and packages." -Plant Manager,...
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In the December issue of Plant Services magazine, CEO Sam Hoff spoke with the Big Picture Interview. They discussed how a systems integrator can guide your digital projects, the state of digitalization, and more. Read the full interview here.
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Last week, Kettering University honored Sam Hoff with its Alumni Service Award at its Evening of Distinction and Determination. "Kettering means so much to me. It's such a unique school. I want to have a part of helping the school...
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Intro (Sam Hoff did a podcast interview with Bryan Powrozek, Sr. Manager, Industrial Automation at Clayton & McKervey, and discussed digital transformation. Here are some highlights of the podcast.) What is digital transformation to Sam Hoff? Digital transformation and Industry...
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Today marks 30 years of Patti Engineering. Back in 1991, three weeks before Sam’s wedding day, he founded a company named after his bride-to-be. Today, the company is more than 30 employees across three offices. To celebrate three decades, we’re...
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Especially with visitor and safety restrictions over the last year, more of our customers have been requesting virtual commissioning on their projects. Find out why. Read about a project example where we cut down estimated downtime by weeks.
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To our valued partners and customers, During these unprecedented times, I've been thinking about our industry. While things are changing every day, it is becoming clear that manufacturing will have a major role to play in meeting immediate needs and...
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Earlier this month, participants at Manufacturing in America had the chance to kick field goals at Ford Field. We set up a tracking system using Siemens MindSphere that measured multiple aspects of the field goal kicks. Click here or on...
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Patti Engineering's CEO Sam Hoff featured in CSIA's Talking Industrial Automation podcast Sam Hoff spoke with Tony Veroeven of CSIA for the Talking Industrial Automation podcast series during Siemens' Manufacturing in America conference in March 2018. Sam talks candidly about...
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In a recent Control Magazine multi-part series titled ‘You Can Be a Cybersecurity Badass,’ author Jim Montague explores how system integrators and end users are sharing best practices around cybersecurity like never before. As Montague explains in the article, in...
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Blog post by Sam Hoff, CEO When the iPhone came out on in the middle of 2007, it was an extremely disruptive technology. For the first time, we were carrying a fully-connected computer on our person. Thanks to an app...
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It is with deep sadness that we learned Dick Morley passed away in New Hampshire Tuesday evening. Dick was best known as the inventor of the PLC, but he was also known to many in our community as a mentor. Sam...
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by Sam Hoff, CEO Maybe you are considering a career in engineering but you really like people, or you like to read and write, or you like to do only research, or you want to be in sales. You might...
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On Wednesday, December 7, Patti Engineering will attend Marian High School’s 2nd annual STEM Career Night, entitled “Women Changing the World with STEM.” Controls engineers Connie LeMarbe and Nick Sadro will attend the event and speak with students at the...
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This article originally appeared in our October 2016 newsletter. Recently, we noticed that we’ve had an influx of customers asking about adding robots to their production line. Maybe it was the display at the IMTS. (Didn’t attend IMTS? Check out...
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Earlier this week, Jim Hopkins and Steve Newcomer from Phoenix Contact stopped in the office. They surprised us by celebrating our 25th anniversary! We really appreciated such a nice gesture. You can read their letter below.
