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Mattycat started the discussion Training in the forum Automation Academy

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 17:09:00 +0000

I enjoyed your webinar, episode 69, on Mastering the Machine. I will be looking forward to the upcoming information on Automation Direct. One of my programmer friends was out of town and learned how to program on Automation Direct’s free software one night.

I might have mentioned, I recently changed employment from the plant setting back…

Mattycat posted an update: This post is for anyone who is interested in sharing […]

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 14:08:29 +0000

This post is for anyone who is interested in sharing their position in automation and how they got there. To summarize my career in a sentence, I’m a farm boy who is now doing electrical. Growing up I figured that I would be a farmer when I grew up. When I moved to the west coast, nothing was available in the farming community so I took…

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Mattycat posted an update: Thank you for putting together the RSLogix 5000 […]

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:12:12 +0000

Thank you for putting together the RSLogix 5000 Odyssey class. My biggest take away is the organization of the programs. At my work there are machine programs with 1 or 2 routines for the whole program. Troubleshooting is a nightmare. A few of the other programs in the plant have an IO Routine in which I really like. It makes looking…

Mattycat started the discussion Mastering the Machine Webinar in the forum Automation Academy

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:42:26 +0000

Mastering the Machine Webinar

Hi Frank,

I am going to try to join your Mastering the Machine webinar next week for the first time. I believe you typically run it on Saturday mornings. Your posting is Saturday with Friday’s date. So, I’m asking if it is going to be next Saturday, the 17th?

Thanks,

Matt

Mattycat replied to the discussion Static Discharge Disruptions in the forum Automation Academy

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:44:10 +0000

Reply to Static Discharge Disruptions

I work at a cannery so the static becomes a problem with us as well. The static bars are probably a good solution. We tend to have problems with our labeling centers. The cans are conveyed on plastic belts but somehow the cans gain the static charge. For a quick solution, we took wire we use to ground welders to discharge the static charge. …

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Mattycat started the discussion Goals and Assessment in the forum Automation Academy

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:50:18 +0000

Goals and Assessment

Hi Frank,

I have reviewed various publications of yours that have been helpful. It was a hard to decide on which class of yours to start with. I chose your Goals class and I am thankful that I did. I am learning from your thoroughness. I am planning on using your resources to guide my strengths and abilities in performing my future work…

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Mattycat posted a new activity comment

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:50:33 +0000

Thank you for your response. It’s helpful. I do agree that AA is a wealth of information and I’m enjoying the resources. Yesterday I read some of your experiences which was insightful and helpful. We don’t use Beckhoff at my work. If that changes, I’ll know where to go!

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Next year I will have been an electrician for 20 years. Time flies when you’re having fun! For the past 6 years I’ve been working as a plant electrician. Working as a plant […]

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Mattycat posted an update: Next year I will have been an electrician for 20 […]

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:10:56 +0000

Next year I will have been an electrician for 20 years. Time flies when you’re having fun! For the past 6 years I’ve been working as a plant electrician. Working as a plant electrician requires a different skill set compared to when I worked in construction. For the last year and a half I have been learning more about automation with the…

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