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Safety Risk Assessments
Blog post by Jason Weedin Safety is an important part of our lives. How do we determine if a machine is safe to operate or even safe to be around? Sometimes it is possible to simply look at a machine and determine whether it is safe just by watching it. However, when a new operator…
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Using Adept to Simplify Process Control Engineering Management
We recently talked to Synergis Software about why we chose their Adept software to manage our documents and drawings. While we’ve always made an effort to keep documents organized, the software makes it much simpler and has saved us significant time. You can read the details below! http://huffmaneng.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/synergissoftware-huffman-engineering.pdf
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Why Drawings Should Be Considered an Important Part of Project Documentation
Blog post by Amy Obst, Senior CAD Operator Drawings do not always get the recognition they deserve, even though they are a crucial part of documentation during a project. Drawings are important because they are used to communicate the technical details of a project in a common format. The drawings also become the foundation for…
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Huffman Engineering Continues Water Infrastructure Renovation Work for MUD on Minne Lusa Pump Station Improvements
Huffman Engineering continues work with the Metropolitan Utilities District (MUD) to complete renovation projects on aging infrastructure critical to providing safe drinking water to 211,623 customers. MUD is a customer-owned public utility that provides natural gas and water services to customers located in the Omaha, Nebraska and surrounding communities. In 2016, Huffman Engineering completed a…
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Finding a Path to Harness the Power of IIoT and Big Data
In a recent Control Magazine article titled ‘Alternate Paths,’ author Jim Montague explores how going off road to move data from the field and plant floor to the enterprise level and cloud can include bypassing the usual control routes. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is evolving quickly; harnessing its power is becoming more of…
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5 Tips for HMI Development
Although a Human Machine Interface (HMI) is often the last part of a control system integration project, the HMI is vital to the success of your automation system. There are countless guidelines, standards and handbooks covering HMI best practices and design including those published by ISA, ASM, and ISO to name a few. Nonetheless, with…
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Partnerships Make Us Successful
Blog post by Evan Kilgore, Senior Electrical Engineer, Colorado Successful projects are built on relationships. This fact is at the core of Huffman Engineering Inc. With the network of customers, manufacturers, distributors, and contractors, it is always important to treat interactions as partnerships. Having a teamwork mindset going into a project will help lead to…
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Ransomware/Wiper Attack Hits Automation Control System… and the Aftermath
Paying the ransom and allowing the hackers to decrypt the compromised systems was not an option. The only choice was to rebuild each system either from scratch, or hopefully with a backup. We were about to find out how good – or not good – the customer’s backup plan was. Most of the HMI interfaces…
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What Are Safety PLCs?
Blog post by Tanner Grieve, Mechanical Engineer A safety programmable logic controller (PLC) is like a standard PLC. It can be used to control and automate pieces of industrial equipment. A safety PLC supports all the applications that a standard PLC does; however, a safety PLC contains integrated safety functions that allow it to control…
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Jay Steinman Writes Article for Control Engineering Magazine
In the May issue of Control Engineering magazine, our Jay Steinman wrote an article entitled “Defining and Measuring Project Quality.” In the article, he writes: “Quality is often described in vague terms that are difficult, if not impossible, to make quantitative measurements. Quality is apparent to the customer, especially when lacking, but what exactly is…
