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A Primer on PLCs

Posted on August 5, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

  A PRIMER ON PLCS Today we’re going to establish a basic understanding of PLC programming and how TPK can help your facility in the integration of automated systems. PLC stands for Programmable Logic Controller. A PLC is a teachable unit that is

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Automation, Controls, Technicians, tutorial, Uncategorized

Slim Chickens – Finished TPK Project

Posted on July 25, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

Slim Chickens – Finished TPK Project From the TPK archives – TPK is proud to announce its completion of a project at Liberty University of Lynchburg, Virginia. TPK completed its electrical upgrades and lighting updates and additions this summer on the new Slim

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Case Study, Onsite, Technicians, Uncategorized

Inspecting Organic & Machined Surfaces

Posted on July 22, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

Inspecting Organic & Machined Surfaces Polyga’s FlexScan3D is an absolutely feature-packed program, and we’re only beginning to dig into all the myriad things it can do with 3D scan data. We’ll be continuing our FlexScan3D tutorial series with a look at a unique

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3D Scanning, tutorial, Video

Calculating Angles in FlexScan3D

Posted on July 15, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

CALCULATING ANGLES IN FLEXSCAN3D Continuing our how-to series for FlexScan3D by Polyga, this time we briefly cover how to calculate the angle between two planes of a 3D scanned object in FlexScan3D. This is a powerful measurement tool for use in reverse engineering

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3D Printing, 3D Scanning, Video

Hole Filling a 3D Model with FlexScan3D

Posted on July 12, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

Hole Filling a 3D Model with FlexScan3D A few weeks ago, we showed how to 3D scan a small spaceship toy into Polyga’s FlexScan3D software. While the scan looked great, even the best 3D scan will leave out a couple key things, producing

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3D Printing, 3D Scanning

A Mobile Command Center

Posted on July 8, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

A MOBILE COMMAND CENTER When you are an integration company based in Virginia but you do work for clients all around the country, there are a limited number of ways to get the needed material to your job site. Determine how much and

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Onsite, Technicians, Uncategorized

We Have a Robot Visitor!

Posted on July 1, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

WE HAVE A ROBOT VISITOR! Happy Friday! It’s a short one today, but we have some interesting news to share: a robot came to visit us this week! We work with a vendor called Hartfiel Automation, which supplies us with many of the

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Automation, Controls, Robotics, Uncategorized

Manually Moving a FANUC Robot

Posted on June 28, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

HOW TO MANUALLY MOVE A FANUC ROBOT Last week we encountered an issue where a FANUC robot froze in an error position (an area that interfered with the safety sensors on the accompanying system). The only way to reset the error was to

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Automation, Controls, Robotics

Setting Up a Virtual Machine

Posted on June 24, 2022September 23, 2022 by admin

SETTING UP A VIRTUAL MACHINE In our line of work, we often come across legacy automated systems that are no longer compatible with the “latest and greatest” operating systems. (Think, for example of an automated system built in 2010 that only works with

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Case Study, Controls
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