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Sam Hoff Chats with Tony Veroeven of CSIA During the Manufacturing in America Conference March 2018

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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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Sharing Solutions to Industrial Cyber Security Challenges

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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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Remote I/O: What and Why

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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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Is Your System Recoverable?

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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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Mitigating the Challenges of Working on Production Equipment

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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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Linking SQL Servers Saves Time

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Blog Post by Ryan Goad, Controls Engineer If you’re working on a system that accesses data on multiple servers, did you know that you can have one access point that […]

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Tricky Parameters for a Vision System: A Case in Point

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by Dan Bock, Controls Engineer Vision systems are tricky; they need to be reliable and accurate in any possible scenario.   Even in a favorable environment for a vision system, without […]

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Should I Use the Advanced Recipe Function in the GOT HMI?

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Blog Post by Terrance Brinkley, Director of Michigan Operations The Mitsubishi Electric GOT 1000 HMI offers the ability to create complex recipe data right within the HMI.  It’s a great […]

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Taking IO-Link to the Next Level

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Blog post by Ryan Hibbert, Controls Engineer If you’re wondering what IO-Link is, check out our first IO-Link post, here. IO-Link is making waves in industrial automation because it makes […]

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What’s So Great about IO-Link?

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Blog post by Ryan Hibbert, Controls Engineer You may have heard about IO-Link and have wondered what it is.  We have recently been working with a new line of IO-Link […]

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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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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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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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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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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 Hired to Convert Obsolete Siemens S5 PLCs to Latest Siemens S7 Control Platform

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With discontinuation of the S5 product series, maintenance of these control systems is becoming more difficult and expensive. Patti Engineering is providing the necessary engineering labor to provide Siemens program conversion services using the latest version of Siemens.

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