When 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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It’s one of the most recognizable icons in the world and, as part of a $30 million dollar renovation project, the Statue of Liberty had its obsolete, 30-year-old rescue elevator […]
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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, […]
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Blog post by Lynn Minard, Director of Finance When thinking about replacing or completing maintenance on an obsolete system, the focus is often put on the cost of the new […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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