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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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Will Engineers Write?

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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O-O Approach For Industrial Automation Software Development

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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

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

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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 […]

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A Range of Recent FANUC Robotics Projects

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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 […]

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An End Users Perspective on Choosing the Right Control System Integrator

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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At Patti Engineering We Work Hard and Play Hard

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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...

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

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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, […]

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

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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? […]

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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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Patti Engineer Sails in Race to Mackinac

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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