- Three Tips for Navigating Ambiguity in Achieving Growth for Your Business - There is tremendous uncertainty in business today and constant pressure to grow, expand, and excel. Together with competitive pressures, complex economic operating conditions, and many other variables, we find ourselves often dealing with less than all the information we would like to have at our disposal. Failing to act is paralysis, and leads potentially to… Continue Reading
- How to Get Started with your Industrial Automation Controls Project - As one of the industrial automation companies that assists clients in maintaining their competitive edge, we frequently participate in capital upgrade projects for industrial automation controls that embrace the application of automation as a means to keep production costs low and product quality consistently high. We have frequently been invited to engage in our client’s… Continue Reading
- The Engineering Services Contract – how to partner with your customers - The procurement processes at many companies can be very complex and time consuming. It can take longer to get a purchase order than to complete the work on some projects. One solution to this is to set up an engineering services contract, or a blanket contract. Often times you have a customer that you do… Continue Reading
- Using Checklists to Produce Quality Engineering Services - At Optimation Technology we design, fabricate and install equipment for the manufacturing industries. One of our goals is to provide services of the highest quality possible. Just how can a company like us define and achieve quality for our customers. Is there a subjective standard that can be used or is quality more objective in… Continue Reading
- Partnering with Machine Builders for Cost Effective Turnkey Projects - When it comes to providing engineered solutions for our clients in the manufacturing segment, Optimation recognizes that the most effective approach maybe require us to engage the assistance of subject matter experts and OEM equipment providers beyond our own stable of excellent technical folks. While we thrive at engineering, designing and building custom designed process equipment to… Continue Reading
- The Roundup - A roundup of posts from this week, as well as a few other things we thought were worth noting. Have a great weekend! Concept to Completion Manufacturing and the China Effect in 2016 Safety Lessons Learned the Hard Way Continue Reading
- Safety Lessons Learned the Hard Way - Just this past weekend a worker died in the Alberta oil sands region near Fort McMurray. We can take lessons from this tragedy and remind ourselves to study our practices to ensure that corners are not cut and best practices are employed to assure workplace safety. This blog post speaks to safety issues in general,… Continue Reading
- Manufacturing and the China Effect in 2016 - On the first day of trading in 2016, the Chinese stock market collapsed. Chinese stocks tumbled seven percent in their opening session of 2016, forcing the exchange to suspend trading. Most analysts blamed the sharp decline on reports of weak factory activity. China’s economy, based heavily on manufacturing, is sputtering. Its manufacturing index has dropped… Continue Reading
- Concept to Completion - We like to provide clients with a turnkey solution, and often use the phrase From Concept to Completion. (Some people say cradle to grave, but I think this is much friendlier!) Defining project requirements is the “concept” portion of the project and having a working solution with a delighted customer is “completion.” How do we… Continue Reading
- Collaborative Robots With Coordinate Measurement - I had seen early adaptations of collaborative robots at a Hanover Fair in 2007, but it was only last year when they started showing up here at Optimation. Collaborative robots Articulated robots in manufacturing have traditionally been separated from operators by safety guarding. Despite all of the advantages that can be achieved by using robots… Continue Reading
