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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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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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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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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by Ryan Goad, Controls Engineer and Nick Sadro, Electrical Engineer When manufacturing facilities execute a controls system project, they often debate whether to do the project internally or to hire […]
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by Sam Hoff, CEO Maybe you are considering a career in engineering but you really like people, or you like to read and write, or you like to do only […]
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This article originally appeared in our August 2016 Newsletter. This month, we continue our celebration of 25 years in business by recognizing the partnerships that have allowed us to be […]
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Earlier this week, Jim Hopkins and Steve Newcomer from Phoenix Contact stopped in the office. They surprised us by celebrating our 25th anniversary! We really appreciated such a nice gesture. […]
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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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Next week, several of us are headed to the CSIA conference in Puerto Rico. Sam, our CEO has attended every conference since 1996. So we thought we’d share a few […]
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Blog post by Steve Palmgren, VP of Texas Operations Exactly 6 years ago today, I found myself trying to “help” our cats in the parking lot of a gas station at […]
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If you are an industrial end-user of automation technology – manufacturer, oil & gas company, water/wastewater plant, etc. – from time to time you may need to hire a control […]
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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