- Being Thankful for…the Automation Solution Option You Didn’t Implement - Are Robots the Answer? During this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our customers, both new and longstanding, have been rethinking how they deploy their employees, and how they utilize process automation to manufacture their products. Mask wearing and social distancing have become the norm for the foreseeable future and guaranteeing the safety… Continue Reading
- Improving Chemical Manufacturing in America - Optimation creates some of the most unique and innovative manufacturing processes and machines in the world. In order to do this, Optimation employees about a hundred engineers in a variety of industrial specialties and employs about a hundred tradesmen engaged in the industrial trades. Recently, I have been blogging about a few of our favorite… Continue Reading
- Top Projects in Industrial Manufacturing - Optimation employees about a hundred engineers and a hundred tradesmen to create some of the most unique and innovative manufacturing machines in the world. I’ve been blogging about some of our favorite projects in the past. Some of our projects were done for large established companies while many others have been completed for small startup… Continue Reading
- Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals in America - Do you remember the beginning of 2020? For me, I had just started my new gig here with Optimation as the Director of Marketing. I was bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready to take on the world! Then, tragedy strikes, and our entire universe is flipped upside down. The words “global pandemic”, “coronavirus” and “COVID-19”… Continue Reading
- Helping the Planet with Food Preservation and Carbon Emission Reduction - At Optimation we design and fabricate manufacturing equipment. We have about a hundred creative and inquisitive engineers and another hundred hard-working and talented tradesmen. Collaborating as a team, they can design and build almost anything. Our passion at Optimation is to grow the manufacturing base in the United States. We have a very diverse client… Continue Reading
- 5 Ways to Celebrate National Manufacturing Day - The first Friday of October every year has been designated as National Manufacturing Day. That day is set aside to proudly celebrate goods and services made in America. This year, more than ever, we are proud to celebrate American innovation. American manufacturers have led the world in technical development for the past two centuries and… Continue Reading
- Are you using a high powered SPC operating system to analyze your manufacturing process and product data? - Process Monitor (PM) has a long-term track record of eliminating production variability and saving manufacturers millions of dollars a year. “The core principle of the latent defect theory is that variation in manufacturing processes is the main culprit for defects, and eliminating variation will help eliminate defects, which will in turn eliminate the wastes associated… Continue Reading
- Advice from Health & Safety Engineer Jonathan Shaffer, CSP - As we continue business operations, Optimation has been actively working on fabrications for manufacturing COVID-19 related medical equipment. This has been a boost in our pride of American manufacturing and its continued comeback over the past few years. Measured, steady, and decisive. This is what we’ve told ourselves at Optimation throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic. From… Continue Reading
- Implementing Your Next Capital Project Investment: Is It Worth the Risk? - On several previous occasions I have been given the opportunity to blog about one of my passions; capital project execution and the application of a Phases and Gates methodology. As we have previously articulated, Phases and Gates is a shared approach to achieving a business goal, usually involving installing or upgrading manufacturing assets, shared between… Continue Reading
- Meet Matt Rhode, Our New Business Development Engineer - My passion for all things mechanical and engineering go back to my early childhood. Whether it was trying to sell my mom on the idea that modifying a borrowed moped to go just a few MPH faster really was a good idea, or, convincing my brother to convert his skateboard into a street luge; I’ve… Continue Reading
