Transition from Co-op to Employee and Why Many Choose Huffman Engineering

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Blog post by Alex Winking, Mechanical Engineer There is always a learning curve from college to a professional career. Huffman Engineering has made my transition seamless. I started as a Co-op the summer of 2012. I had more questions than answers when I...

Arc Flash Safety Engineering Studies – When do they make sense?

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Having a solid electrical safety program is paramount to all industrial companies; first and foremost, to protect employees. It only takes one arc flash event to result in an electrical burn or worse – a fatality. Beyond safety concerns, protecting against an arc...

Community Service at Huffman Engineering – A New Employee’s Perspective

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Jeff Austin, Operations Manager I joined Huffman Engineering nearly 8 months ago. Following my 30-year Naval career, there were certain things I was looking for in my post-military “dream job.” One of the things that I had listed in my “top 5 must-haves”...

Control Engineering Philosophy

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Blog post by Howard Huffman, PE Although PLCs and other control equipment have evolved over the years, the approach to developing high-quality control systems programs has not changed. During the design phase of a project the project engineers at Huffman Engineering...

Redundancy in Navigation for HMIs

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Blog post by Mark Meelhuysen, Mechanical Engineer Most of us enjoy being able to click, type, and alt-tab our way around our computers without thinking twice. But what about Human Machine Interfaces that we use to control processes and track relevant...

It’s not broken, why fix it?

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Blog post by Keith Mandachit, Senior Engineer When I first started as a controls engineer, the year was 1996. Allen-Bradley's flagship Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) then was the PLC-5. My colleagues and I have implemented many control systems utilizing the...