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BlogCompanyTexas

The Professional Engineer License and What it Means if Hiring an Engineering Company to Assist with Automation Projects

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Nick Hitchcock of Patti Engineering’s Austin, Texas branch, recently earned his Professional Engineer (PE) license from the Texas Board of Professional Engineers. Nick is Patti Engineering’s fourth engineer to earn […]

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BlogControl Systems IntegrationMitsubishi

An Inside Look: Major Mitsubishi Electric Control System Upgrade for Automotive Manufacturing Giant

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Quality built industrial equipment can often outlive the PLC and other industrial controls that make it operate. Patti Engineering has a long history of performing control system upgrades to keep […]

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BlogControl Systems IntegrationSiemens

Going Green – Creating Sustainable Water and WastewaterSolutions

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Going green and identifying energy-efficient sustainable solutions is a hot topic of conversation across the globe. Advances in technologies are driving sustainable city development. Today, city governments are recognizing that […]

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BlogControl Systems Integration

Real Ale Brewing Quadruples Speed on Bottle Line

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Real Ale Brewing Company is the home of a dedicated team of brewers producing high-quality handcrafted ales. The company has experienced consistent growth year over year, and is nationally ranked […]

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BlogCompany

Top Ten Attributes of a Good Plan for Successful Deployment/Implementation of an Automation Project

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“A goal without a plan is just a wish,” Patti Engineering VP of Operations Ken Kutchek reverberates, from French writer and poet Antoine de Saint Exupéry, to his audience at […]

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Discover 5 reasons to upgrade to Siemens SIMATIC S7 PLC for enhanced automation efficiency and performance.
BlogControl Systems IntegrationSiemens

Five Reasons to Upgrade to Siemens SIMATIC S7 PLC

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  Reliability Sticking with a legacy system means taking a gamble that you can still rely on your system, its parts, and its maintenance. We had one customer who was […]

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BlogCompanySiemens

Our Partnership History with Siemens

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As we head into our 25-year milestone, we are highlighting our history with some of the partners to whom we owe much success. Siemens is one of those partners. Eleven […]

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BlogRobotics

Do I Need a Vision System for my Robot or Should I Fly Blind?

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by Joe Palace, Senior Electrical Engineer When a robot performs an application, a process, or a validation check on a part, it relies on that part being the same size […]

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Asset TrackingBlog

UHF RFID 101 [Infographic]

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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 […]

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BlogIndustry 4.0 / Digitalization

FAQs on IIoT

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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) […]

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BlogCompany

What is your plan when your equipment goes down?

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Blog post by Dave Foster, Vice President of Engineering It’s not a matter of if your equipment is going to go down, but when.  The impact of this inevitability on […]

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BlogCompany

Automation Project ROI

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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 […]

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Automated warehouse with robotics and conveyor system by Patti Engineering.
BlogIndustry 4.0 / DigitalizationSiemens

The Many Benefits of PLM Plant Simulation Software

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Siemens Tecnomatix® Plant Simulation is a valuable PLM software tool for engineers working at a manufacturing facility and for engineers building or modifying manufacturing machinery. Blog post by Terrance Brinkley […]

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BlogControl Systems Integration

Tips for Learning New PLC Software

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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 […]

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BlogCompany

The Importance of Down Time from Work

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Blog post by Barb Rausch, Human Resource Manager “Vacations help us change the view, which can spark an idea or kick start creative thinking.” – Rieva Lesonsky, CEO GrowBiz Media. […]

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Asset TrackingBlog

Strategies to Ensure Your UHF RFID Antenna Coverage is Sufficient

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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 […]

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BlogIndustry 4.0 / Digitalization

The Ever-increasing Need for Using Digital Twins

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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 […]

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BlogControl Systems Integration

Minor Upgrades, Major Improvement

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Blog post by Ryan Goad, Controls Engineer A couple of years ago, we completed a major retrofit of a database at a garment distribution facility.  In the last few months, […]

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BlogControl Systems Integration

Software Etiquette

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When writing software, it’s important to write code that is organized and contains descriptive comments. This helps the code be more readable when the programmer goes back to it to […]

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BlogControl Systems Integration

Tips for Working with Legacy Technology On Site

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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 […]

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