Three cheers for the facilities, maintenance, and plant managers out there! No, make that TEN cheers! What a great bunch of nimble and creative people who increasingly have to achieve more with less…and for the most part, enjoy that challenge.
As it is Friday afternoon and you are probably about to bail out of the office a little early to get a head start on your weekend, I thought I’d ask you to spare a moment of silence for the deceased circuit board pictured. Mr. DJ, play us some taps […]
Here on the east coast we are not only roasting from the heat, but simmering like a pot roast in the humidity. And there’s no end in sight. Which, in my sweaty misery, reminds me of the nasty effects of heat on your industrial electronics. Do you know what they […]
No power light on board. No LCD on logic board. CNC not working. Work halted. These are words no manufacturer of any size wants to see or hear. It is the sound of work stopping – a mighty bad sound.
Making a big investment in new automation equipment may cause you to become paralyzed with fear of making a mistake. Buyer’s remorse is a gut-twisting feeling no one wants to have whether the item is as small as a new cell phone or a much larger purchase like a new […]
There are all kinds of keepers. Goal keepers, lion keepers, game keepers, scorekeepers, book keepers and, of course, the big fish that was “a keeper”. This morning, while having some intensely delicious coffee at The Filling Station, I met a new kind of keeper – the Gunpowder River Keeper. Yes, […]
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and…power supplies? Oh yeah…power supplies are everywhere and in everything. Ubiquitous and almost as necessary as oxygen, the underappreciated yeoman power supply runs the motors of your life, from the microscopic to the 40,000 volt monster variety.
Americans enjoy freedom like no other country in the world. We embrace freedom in every way possible and guard it with our very lives. Whether your ancestors sacrificed their blood to create a free country in 1776 or they arrived on America’s shores in later centuries to follow their dream […]
Yep, we agree. Filling out forms is a pain in the rump. Either online or on paper, every time you turn around, it seems like someone wants you to fill out a form oftentimes repeating information you know darn well they already have. Feel the blood pressure rising yet? Reaching […]
