July 13, 2022
Buying industrial equipment isn’t like buying an iPhone. You don’t upgrade just because a new model is available. Most manufacturing systems include expensive, bespoke equipment designed to last for decades. A controls system upgrade can give this equipment a new lease on life for a fraction of the cost of equipment replacement.
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April 27, 2017
The famous American engineer, statistician, professor, author, and lecturer, W. Edwards Deming said “In God We Trust, All Others Must Bring Data!” I started my career as a Quality Engineer in the automotive industry and this popular quote from Deming was hung from the cubicle of one of my colleagues. As I think about it now, I realize that two words are missing.
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March 24, 2017
The complexity of a control system architecture requires careful consideration for current and future testing needs.
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October 6, 2015
HMI screens are used widely in industry as a means to control process or equipment, but there seems to be as many ways to design them as there are stars in the sky. In my nearly 20 years of doing controls.
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September 30, 2015
The beauty of modern control systems is that they are based on programmable controllers. We can take a programmable controller (PLC) from one application, apply some fancy programming to it and use it for a completely different application. Is it really that simple?
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