Bill Dehner

Bill Dehner has spent the majority of his 14-year engineering career designing and installing industrial control systems for the oil and gas, power and package handling industries. He has a BSEE with an associate degree in avionics from the USAF and is currently working for AutomationDirect as a technical marketing engineer.

latest from Bill Dehner

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Product advice on easy, affordable modern control, IIoT implementation

February 8, 2022

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Industrial access on the go

Figure 1: This IIoT maturity model depicts how companies progressively digitalize their operations, in order to more effectively access and act on operational data. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Exploit IIoT to improve operations

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Automation built for resiliency

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How to choose between managed and unmanaged switches

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Embedded HMIs excel in automation applications

August 5, 2020

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Open-source benefits for industrial controllers

May 4, 2020

Figure 1: HMI development environments typically provide many design elements representing physical devices, such as valves and pumps, and logical devices, like analog meters. Some samples of the AutomationDirect C-more development software are shown here. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Configure intuitive HMI screens to simplify automation

January 31, 2020

Figure 3: An HTTP instruction, such as this HTTPCMD block in an AutomationDirect BRX PLC, enables a PLC to initiate a request to an internet website API to obtain data. AutomationDirect Do-more Designer Software has the necessary instructions. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Benefits of connecting a PLC to the internet

July 1, 2019

Configuration software should make it easy to create basic graphics, and to implement more advanced features like remote connectivity, data logging and security. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Choosing the right HMI

June 10, 2019

Figure 3: Specifying HMI operational parameters instead of a vendor allows OEMs to select HMIs with the best price-performance ratio. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Specifying performance instead of parts

May 28, 2019

PLM, Control Design

Controller embeds programming efficiency

July 7, 2017

Figure 1: Providing feedback to a centralized automation system allows closed-loop control for a variety of different machines and processes. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

PLM, Control Design

Efficient controls require feedback

January 21, 2015