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Focus On: Retaining Automation Know-How

This insightful look at our February 2010 cover story, "Stick to the Playbook" (www.ControlDesign.com/reuseknowhow) examines how machine builders are creating standards and reusable modular design to retain the work and the knowledge of their engineers. Control Design's editorial staff interviews Pat Phillips, engineering manager at Haumiller, which builds high-speed, automated assembly machines, and Chris Lovendahl, sales manager at Concep Machine, makers of special-purpose machine and factory-automation systems, to get a closer look at how those two companies are retaining their automation know-how.