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Lessons Learned in Managing Time Onsite

What is worth my time? When programming onsite, what is worth doing: continuing to troubleshoot hardware or writing a new function? Anyone who has worked with technology knows that it […]

4 Types of Collaborative Robots to Increase Productivity

Blog post by Ian Mogab, Controls Engineer Often times you may hear of manufacturers opting to replace their human workforce with robots in order to increase productivity. However, there are […]

Taking IO-Link to the Next Level

Blog post by Ryan Hibbert, Controls Engineer If you’re wondering what IO-Link is, check out our first IO-Link post, here. IO-Link is making waves in industrial automation because it makes […]

Phoenix Contact Helps Us Celebrate 25 Years

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. […]

What’s So Great about IO-Link?

Blog post by Ryan Hibbert, Controls Engineer You may have heard about IO-Link and have wondered what it is.  We have recently been working with a new line of IO-Link […]

Getting Started With Universal Robots – Safely

Blog Post by Ian Mogab, Controls Engineer What are UR robots? UR robots, or universal robots, are collaborative robots, meaning that if they are configured correctly they can work alongside […]

Tips for Attending the 2016 CSIA Executive Conference

Next week, several of us are headed to the CSIA conference in Puerto Rico. Sam, our CEO has attended every conference since 1996.  So we thought we’d share a few […]

Celebrating Six Years in Austin, Texas

Blog post by Steve Palmgren, VP of Texas Operations Exactly 6 years ago today, I found myself trying to “help” our cats in the parking lot of a gas station at […]

What is a CSIA Certified Control System Integrator and Why Should Users of Industrial Automation Care?

If you are an industrial end-user of automation technology – manufacturer, oil & gas company, water/wastewater plant, etc. – from time to time you may need to hire a control […]

Will Engineers Write?

Blog Post by Steve Palmgren, VP of Texas Operations Marketing is necessary to any business. If you don’t ever “put yourself out there,” how will anyone know you exist? But […]

Setting Up Reliable Monitoring for a Water and Wastewater System Using Phoenix Contact Radioline

Blog Post by Patti Engineering Senior Engineer Nick Hitchcock, P.E Recently, we worked on a project to monitor and control equipment over distances.  In our case, we were controlling and […]

O-O Approach For Industrial Automation Software Development

Blog post by Shahrokh Yousefi, Controls Engineer, Patti Engineering Texas Office The Object-Oriented (O-O) approach to programming has long proven successful in software applications, but is not common in industrial […]

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Simple Steps to Connect a SIMATIC S7-200 to a SIMATIC S7-300/400 via Ethernet

Blog post by Shahrokh Yousefi, Controls Engineer, Patti Engineering Texas Office While working on a machine that is controlled by a SIMATIC S7-200 controller, have you been surprised by the […]

Three Considerations for Programming a Control System Timer

This week, several of us tackled programming solutions where timers were the linchpin.  On one project, a timer was extending cycle time, which caused a huge production back up.  Changing […]

How to Save Time and Frustration When Configuring VFD Safety on Profinet

Blog post by Nikhil Niphadkar, Controls Engineer, Patti Engineering Texas Office Industrial Engineering principle: “Do it right the first time”. I have seen people, including myself, struggle while configuring safety […]

An Engineer’s Debugging Tip – No Packet Sniffing Hardware or RS232 Port Required!

Blog post by Steve Palmgren, Vice President Texas Operations, Patti Engineering To the layman packet sniffing may sound a little suspect…drug related possibly??? But, in an engineer’s world using RS232 […]

At Patti Engineering We Work Hard and Play Hard

At Patti Engineering we work hard and we play hard. We expect a lot from our employees. They are dedicated and work hard to make our company successful. The ‘Fun Fund’ is a little way we give back to...

Patti Engineering Names St Valentine Catholic School Winner of its Special Award at Regional Future City Competition

On January 26th, Patti Engineering sent a team of engineers to the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) Regional Future City Competition which took place at Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, […]

Experienced Engineers Share Tips to Minimize Downtime When Implementing an Automation Project

Big or small, automation projects can slide off course with budget overruns, unanticipated technical glitches, miscommunications, and/or unwelcome downtime and delays. So, how does one avoid the unwanted project pitfalls? […]