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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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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Blog post by Marc Bourque, Electrical Engineer What is arc flash, and why should you be concerned about it? What is arc flash? Arc flash (also called a flashover) is […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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We’ve had a new office mate this week in our Austin office! This FANUC LR-Mate is getting ready to inspect parts on an upcoming project. He’s got a payload of 7kg and […]
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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 […]
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Blog post by Marc Bourque, Electrical Engineer What is Remote I/O? Remote I/O is the ability to control inputs and outputs that are not near the PLC. Most remote I/O […]
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Blog post by Joe Palace, Senior Electrical Engineer Having a robust system is having a system that recovers well after a system fault. It’s the difference between minimal downtime and […]
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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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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 […]
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Blog post by our Auburn Hills engineers Does the idea of working on your production equipment send a million-dollar-a-minute shiver down your spine? There are, of course, risks involved when […]
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Blog post by Nick Sadro, Controls Engineer I was recently working on a large project where I was responsible for programming several Yaskawa Motoman robots for material handling and dispensing […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Blog post by Nick Sadro, Controls Engineer Networking is hugely important in industrial settings. Inside manufacturing plants, almost all machines are connected together, and most plants have data from the […]
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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 […]
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