Sam Hoff's Bio
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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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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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We’ve all heard about the importance of The Cloud when it comes to digitalization and modernizing your facility. The Edge, however, may be the most overlooked and underestimated part of the Industry 4.0 puzzle. What is The Edge? The Edge...
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A lifetime ago, back in March, we reached out to you all to ask: What can we do to help? The most immediate need we are hearing from you is social distancing and contact tracing. Many facilities that have been...
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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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There are currently many options to visualize your data on the plant floor. WinCC OA and MindSphere are two common products that are, in many ways, quite similar. WinCC OA SCADA Designed for on-premise storage License Based Extremely flexible open software Statistics MindSphere...
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Blog post by Sam Hoff, CEO of Patti Engineering I was recently meeting with a client who has 200 manufacturing engineers working for him. Of those 200 engineers, he estimates that 100 of them will retire within the next five...
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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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You can hardly open a trade publication or check a conference agenda without bumping into “IIoT.” But the third time we heard someone (who is technically competent and pretty savvy) ask what it was, we figured it was time to...
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Being CSIA certified has been perhaps the biggest driver of improvement for our business. CSIA certification is not just a box to check or another shiny gold plaque to hang on the wall. The process is intense and thought-provoking, and the changes...
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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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This article originally appeared in our August 2016 Newsletter. This month, we continue our celebration of 25 years in business by recognizing the partnerships that have allowed us to be successful. We have been doing work for Mitsubishi Electric since...
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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.
