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TÜNKERS will be responsible for Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and South Korea.

For the 2009 competition, igus donated Energy Chain cable carriers and DryLin linear guide systems to 400 competing teams.

Crowder comes from Precision Valve & Automation, where he served as product manager.

CoroWare, a systems and robotics technology integrator, will acquire LTC International, a business operations and telecommunications consulting firm.

Visit the PLCopen Organization booth and see how PLCopen member companies are committed to control software standards that improve your quality and productivity.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

Japan’s AIST selected ORBexpress as the communications architecture for AIST’s new advanced robotics platform, OpenRTM-aist.

ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.

Students will receive a certificate with the approved CERT logo when they complete the CERT program.

The catalog contains 800 pages with more than 4,800 products, including hundreds of new items.

Automatizaciones Garco S.A. de C.V. of Monterrey, Mexico, is Adept's exclusive distributor for Mexico.

By Rick Zabel, Automation.com The proposed name change of ISA (to "International Society of Automation") is up for a vote again during ISA Expo in Houston, October 14-16, 2008. Last year, the change was voted down, but I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the change. And there are many reasons for the change. If ISA is truly the global society of automation professionals, then its name should reflect its cause. It's time for a change!

The robotic welding solution combines hardware and software to automate robot programming and weld production of Kern’s high mix, low volume parts.

More than 160 organizations have joined the South Carolina Engineering Cluster. The cluster has two goals: promoting engineering as a career for students and promoting the South Carolina engineering industry.

Tim Kilty replaces Jim Ellison who will continue to serve in an advisory capacity.

John Dulchinos, president, was named CEO to succeed Robert Bucher, who was named executive chairman of the board of directors.

LEGO Education WeDo Software is a drag-and-drop, icon-based environment that students ages 7 to 11 can use to easily program their own robotics inventions.

The Computer Numerical Controls (CNC) market has simply exploded in the last two years lead by the surge in production of machine tools in the European and Asian markets.

This article gives a short overview of general-purpose robotics software platforms currently available for service robotics applications. The article is a compilation of the knowledge the authors accumulated during an experimentation work they’ve been recently involved in.

Could it be that high fuel prices, the weak dollar and crises in the U.S. manufacturing industry are creating opportunities? Andy Chatha of ARC Advisory Group thinks so. He says the U.S. industry has suddenly become competitive on the world market, and companies are no longer moving operations overseas. Instead, many are expanding their facilities, and he predicts a boom in automation right here in the U.S.