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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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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 […]

A Range of Recent FANUC Robotics Projects

Patti Engineering has a long history with FANUC Robotics. In fact, Patti Engineering has been working with FANUC robots since the inception of our company in 1991. Now, we are […]

An End Users Perspective on Choosing the Right Control System Integrator

Penny wise, dollar foolish? Many of us remember this saying, perhaps as part of a lesson our parents taught us growing up. Sometimes we can go to such great lengths […]

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, […]

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

“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 […]

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? […]

Real Ale Brewing Quadruples Speed on Bottle Line

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 […]

Patti Engineer Sails in Race to Mackinac

We are proud that our own Charlie Rysenga was invited to participate in the 2014 Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac this weekend. This is Charlie’s second year participating in the […]

Going Green – Creating Sustainable Water and WastewaterSolutions

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 […]

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

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 […]

Patti Engineering Invited to Share PROFINET Expertise at ARC Advisory Group’s 18th annual Industry Forum 2014

The ARC Advisory Group’s 18th annual Industry Forum 2014, “Industry in Transition: The Information Driven Enterprise”, is in progress this week in Orlando, Florida. At this event industry executives come […]

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

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 […]

Patti Engineering to Sponsor 18th Annual Michigan Regional Future City Competition

is very excited to be supporting the Engineering Society of Detroit’s (ESD) Michigan Regional Future City Competition again this year. This is an impressive program for our youth here in […]

A Team Effort to Help Forgotten Harvest Feed the Hungry

November 1st, we enjoyed volunteering at Forgotten Harvest, a great organization benefitting the Detroit area. The mission of Forgotten Harvest is to relieve hunger in the Detroit metropolitan community by […]

A Fun Evening of Pampering

A different spin on our typical high energy “fun fund” event. A little pampering time for all in attendance!