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Holiday Throwback - Looking back on the year and over the years, we’ve sent many greeting cards. For this holiday throwback Thursday, we thought we’d share some of our favorites. Continue Reading
Year-end Wonderings and Miracles: 3 Questions - This time of year may conjure up a sense of miracles and wonder. It also is a time of year for budget planning and project wrap-ups. Putting these together then, it's no wonder that many people pray for budget miracles and miraculous project conclusions. Often times clients come to us seeking information and guidance with… Continue Reading
Use a blended team for engineering and trades services - Creating a blended team to provide engineering services is a best practice of bringing on and integrating new people into an organization. Our company has many seasoned engineers who have built longstanding successful relationships with our clients. While having depth in experience is important, we know they will not be working forever. We see the… Continue Reading
A Gift of Manufacturing Funding for Christmas - Last week, Governor Cuomo announced the award of half a billion dollars in state economic assistance to Rochester and the Finger Lakes region. That is a nice Christmas gift. Just how great it is will depend on how much value we and the region can gain from it. The question we should ask ourselves is,… Continue Reading
Need Equipment? Consider Retrofitting - When your solution provider presents you with a proposed equipment project to solve a current manufacturing need, is he or she really offering you the most cost effective approach? How can you be sure that your partner has left no metaphorical solution stone unturned, and that you are in fact being offered a well thought… Continue Reading
Diversity of a different kind also yields success - Business Truth: a successful company provides products or services with a unique value proposition. One way to do this is by specializing in one particular area, or ‘vertical.’ Another way to do this is to provide a flexible solution that can work well for a variety of clients. This is true for my industry -… Continue Reading
Safety Co-Ops at Optimation - In the past 7 years we have been using college co-ops in a Corporate Safety Engineering role at Optimation. Three of the six we have had have moved on to careers in the health and safety field, one will be returning to college shortly and one will continue to work for Optimation on a part-time… Continue Reading
Manufacturing Trends in 2016 - At Optimation Technology we care deeply about manufacturing in the USA. It is our passion to grow the U.S. manufacturing base and increase manufacturing employment. We served a broad cross section of industries and provide automation, process optimization and customized manufacturing equipment for our clients. 2015 was a difficult year for many U.S. manufacturers. Manufacturing… Continue Reading
DCS Systems and the “Connected Enterprise” - It’s been just a few weeks since my FT Batch presentation at the Rockwell Process Systems User’s group meeting in Chicago and I remain overwhelmed by a significant theme of the event: our modern DCS systems are now a “connected enterprise.” If you read this overview article on Rockwell’s site, The Connected Enterprise puts the… Continue Reading
Train Multiple Resources For Contract Engineering Services - Many of our clients look to hire one of our employees as an embedded resource at their facility. This work could be anything from being a part of the customer’s project team, to being an on-call resource to do whatever is required onsite, or as an engineering consultant. Some companies are constrained by headcount limits,… Continue Reading