Pat's Technical Corner

PulseRoller R&D Lab

What if you could bring a potential customer in and show them the most complex applications of your technology in one place, answer their questions by showing them how it actually works and focus them on the potential solutions to their unique materials handling issues?

May 16, 2018

8 Steps to Successful Project Implementation

Have you ever been involved in a project that didn’t go so well?  A common issue in designing and commissioning a new Materials Handling System is system requirements not being clearly defined upfront.  The end-user knows what he or she wants, but he or she is not exactly sure how it should be accomplished. This one simple omission during a

May 16, 2018

Time to Go Modular

May 16, 2018

Pushmi-Pullyu

The pushmi-pullyu is an animal character from Hugh Lofting’s children’s book “The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle.” The pushmi-pullyu is a “cross between a gazelle and a unicorn” and it has two heads – one at each end of its body. According to Wikipedia, “the pushmi-pullyu usually only uses one of its heads to talk, reserving the other for

May 09, 2018

With a Brain the Size of a Planet

One of my favorite reads is the Douglas Adams’ “trilogy” (there are more than 3 books) of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  It’s a spoof of science fiction with colorful characters and insane plot twists.  Throw Star Trek, Star Wars, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus into a mixing bowl, put it in the microwave, and you get the gist

April 02, 2018

Relativity, Regrets, and Reality TV

I am an avid reader of science related books, particularly ones about physics (yes I do this for fun).  A while back I remember reading a biography of Einstein and at one point after he was famous he recollected to an interviewer about some of his “not so huge” regrets from his work (recalling that his addition of a “cosmological constant”

February 06, 2018