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	<title>Automation Field Engineer</title>
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		<title>Industrial Automation Companies Financial Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following data are just to give you a general idea where each one of the following companies stand in the automation and control industry. The data are mostly from MSN Money Central and are for the last year&#8217;s financials.
Some of the following companies are involved in field other than automation as well. So the [...]


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		<title>DeviceNet Thick Cable Communication Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DeviceNet network can use Thick Cable, Thin Cable, and Flat Cable types for communication. Some of the features and qualities of the thick cable type used in DeviceNet networks are:

The Signal pair (#18) is the blue/white wire
Power pair (#15) is the black/red wire
PVC/nylon insulation on power pair
Industrial temperature range
Storage: -40o C to +85oC
Operating: -20o C [...]


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		<title>Field Service Engineer Job to be Done II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote an article on the Jobs to be Done for Automation Field Service Engineering businesses.
I was thinking about it today and came up with couple more ideas. They deal mostly with us (field service engineers) and shareholders. I will keep posting these ideas for a while and then start analyzing them.

Saving the [...]


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		<title>Some Good Automation &amp; PLC Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of suggested books to read on automation, control, and PLCs:
Fundamentals of Programmable Logic Controllers, Sensors, and Communication ~ $110.00
Author: Jon Stenerson
Published: January 2004
Content:

Safety/logout/tagout
Major brands of PLCs
Input/output modules and wiring
IEC 61131-3 programming
Communications, including industrial buses
Sensors, sensor wiring, and applications
Supervisory. Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Instrumentation and process control Fundamentals of robotics


Programmable Logic Controllers [...]


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		<title>Industrial‌ Automation Companies in Cleveland Ohio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a fair number of industrial automation OEM‌ (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and engineering consultant companies in Cleveland,‌ Ohio area. Here are some of them:
Rockwell Automation
Website: www.rockwellautomation.com
Phone: (440) 646-5000‎
The best industrial automation company. Of course I am biased because I work at Rockwell Automation.
Avtron
Website: www.avtron.com
Phone: (216) 642-1230
Avtron is mostly involved in control &#38; automation in [...]


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		<title>Philips Engineers Get Merits &amp; Profit Share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philips engineers get their merits back this year. Not only they will get their merits back but also a 2% salary increase as profit share. Of course that is if they don&#8217;t have individual bad reviews from their managers.


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		<title>Repeaters in ControlNet Network Topologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Repeaters can be used in various topologies in ControlNet networks. Following are the four topologies with their features:
Bus Topology

Repeaters have to be in series.
This is the most basic (and more common) layout

Star Topology
Repeaters are configured as hubs in this configuration
Tree Topology

Repeaters have to be in parallel form
This formation is a combination of Star and Bus [...]


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		<title>Electronic Keying Mismatch in RSLogix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few major reasons why you would get electronic keying mismatch error in RSLogix.
Major / Minor Revisions
If the major or minor revisions of the module in the chassis does not match the one set in the program you will get the keying mismatch error.
Catalog Number of the module
If the catalog number of the module [...]


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		<title>ControlLogix Message Instruction Path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To write a message instruction (MSG) in ControlLogix one needs to give it a path to define where it needs to go. Following is how to set that communication path.
The path looks something like this:

What do the numbers mean? Pay attention that the numbers below don&#8217;t necessary correspond to the position in the address.

Back plane [...]


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		<title>Automation Field Engineering Jobs To Be Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first steps in analyzing a business to find growth strategies is to find out what the &#8220;Job to be done&#8221; is in that line of work. I am a field engineer in the automation industry, so I decided to come up jobs to be done of my line of work.
As field engineers [...]


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