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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, […]
Read MoreWhen 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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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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This week, we released our first app on the MindSphere Store. MindSphere is the open cloud-based IoT operating system from Siemens. The CNC Performance Improvement and Predictive Maintenance app allows […]
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Bottlenecks. They handicap your throughput, mess with your utilization, and throw a wrench in your schedule. Sometimes the solutions can be very obvious – and sometimes obviously prohibitively expensive. Ways […]
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How and why to draft a scope of work when considering automation controls projects. Lots of facility engineers and facility managers walk around with a long mental list of projects. […]
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A common misconception about Robot Return on Investment (ROI) is that labor cost savings achieves an acceptable payback period. This is often not the case – simply replacing a human operator with a robot is […]
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If you’ve never worked with us or if it’s been a while, you might be wondering what to expect. Every project we discuss and work on goes through the same […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The SIMATIC S7-1500 TM NPU (neural processing unit) is the new AI (artificial intelligence) module from Siemens. It enables you to bring AI into any SIMATIC S7-1500 PLC without a separate computer. […]
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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 […]
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