Easy as pie.  Pie in the sky.  4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie.  I just can’t help thinking of all kinds of pie today because yes, it is International Pi day!  As in the irrational and never ending Pi.   For four thousand years we humans have relied on Pi to solve all sorts of things from the simple calculation of the area inside a circle to architectural and engineering challenges.

Getting ready for your annual or semi-annual plant maintenance shutdown?

To keep the budget and schedule intact, remember to keep your to-do list as short as possible and focus on the things that can only be accomplished during a major shutdown.  Everything else can be scheduled during normal minor shutdowns for preventive maintenance.

Of course, you can’t schedule an emergency and by now you have learned that the universe can turn on a dime and to expect the unexpected.  ACS Industrial Services won’t be shutting down, and your ACS repair team will be here to help you with your industrial electronic equipment repairs, even the unexpected rush electronic repairs.

At last, Automation.com has released the results of its annual salary survey and this year they collaborated with InTech.  I anxiously await the results of this survey each year because it paints a unique picture of what’s going on in the engineering and manufacturing world.

In a nutshell, job satisfaction has increased among automation professionals with more than 80% indicating they are satisfied with their job – although these days some level of satisfaction can come from just having a job at all.