Blue Collar Automation is a boutique system integrator that seizes every opportunity to take on big challenges. Founded three years ago by Brennen Dugger, the western Tennessee firm provides a range ...

Today, engineering, design and documentation account for nearly half of the costs in control panel construction. While the mechanical design and automation of machines are largely software-driven, ...

When striving for long-term sustainability, designers have latitude as to how complex a system they wish to design. Build sustainability into every aspect of the control panel’s life—design, ...

Unused space. Energy distribution. Thermal management. When it comes to the manufacturing floor, space is at a premium and the drive to reduce costs by fitting panels into tight spaces while complying ...

As twenty-first century factories evolve at a staggering rate, a major challenge is for human-operated control panels to keep up with this pace. The large and bulky mechanical behemoths of the past ...