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Douglas Machine Inc., Kliklok-Woodman and Nercon Engineering & Manufacturing will have the opportunity to increase market awareness with customers, expand into new market sectors, and improve technical and functional excellence.

PMMI’s support will enable OMAC’s volunteer leadership to expand its membership domestically and internationally, plus engage customer and supplier teams in further developing OMAC standards, including PackML.

Automation.com, March 2011 The largest material handling event of the year will take place later this month in Chicago, ProMat 2011. New automation solutions will be on display. Perhaps the automation solutions for material handling in the food sector carries the most unique requirements for palletizing robots, stretch wrapping equipment, labeling systems, pallet control systems and laser-guided automatic vehicles.

The AIOE’s purpose is to bring together operations professionals from consumer products companies and solutions providers to address key industry issues.

The Standard-Knapp solution has enabled AriZona to significantly increase case packing speeds. For 12-packs of both 16-ounce and 20-ounce glass bottles, packaging speed has increased by 20 percent.

Nord provided drives and gears for the packaging, palleting and transport systems at the new factory of Hacklberger Beverage.

Adept will acquire InMotx in a cash and stock transaction valued at $4.3 million. InMoTx specializes in packaging equipment for the food industry.

Senior management at U.S. manufacturing companies is once again optimistic, according to a Grant Thornton November survey.

FANUC sold its 100,000th robot in North and South America to Schneider Packaging.

September U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $399.76 million, according to AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association and AMT, The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

By TURCK Pro Pack Systems’ Pro Print/EBS-HS-2 packaging machine will print, erect and seal a corrugated shipping case. Pro Pack uses TURCK proximity sensors and AIM I/O module stations on the machine for I/O acquisition and control.

Schneider is FANUC’s largest integrator in the case packing and palletizing segment in North America.

QComp Technologies is a robotics integrator, providing automation solutions for a variety of industries.

Combi’s case packing combined with QComp’s multi-axis robot and vision systems will significantly increase customer’s production speeds.

August U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $246.42 million, according to AMT.

The Machine Builder Program is part of the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork framework.

In 1910, David Hudson and Alexander Sharp founded the company when they took over the shop and foundry of the Sectional Roll Co. and renamed it The Hudson-Sharp Machine Co.

Industrial Automation North America will occur September 10–15, 2012, alongside the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2012 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.

New members include companies from all of PMMI's membership categories: 10 general members, 4 supplier members, 1 materials member and 1 processing member.

Shoemaker will manage sales and customer service of automatic and semi-automatic stretch wrapping products throughout the West Coast.