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  • Encompass promotes Scott Cameron to SVP of Operations

    Encompass Supply Chain Solutions provides forward and reverse logistics for a diverse range of finished goods and replacement parts.
    09 February, 2015 | 1 minute
  • Festo announces Handling Guide Online

    The individual steps including RFQ, layout, quotation and CAD design, for which 10 to 15 days were required in the past, have been shortened to a 20 minutes by the Handling Guide Online.
    07 February, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • Güdel publishes 2015 linear motion catalog

    Catalog covers configurations for standard modules of TrackMotion, gantry and linear motion units in virtually any size and for all robots.
    30 January, 2015 | 1 minute
  • Egemin to supply AGVs to IVC

    Egemin will supply an integrated warehousing system with AGVs to handle the intermediate transport flows of slabs and rolls and storage of slabs.
    28 January, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • AS/RS Safety & Service: Keeping Your System Up and Running for Long-term Benefits

    By Bob Douglas, Westfalia Technologies Although an AS/RS can generate ROI in about five years, proper service and maintenance further maximize this investment and can lead to a system lifespan of 25+ years, thus lowering the total cost of ownership and providing long-term operational efficiencies.
    26 January, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • Service Center maintains material handling equipment

    Center checks, maintains and rebuilds metal detection, material handling and magnetic equipment.
    23 January, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • KION promotes Vincent Halma to president and CEO

    Halma succeeds Brian Butler, who is leaving the KION Group at his own request in order to pursue new opportunities outside the company.
    16 January, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • LB Foster builds Assembly line for Jaguar XF Sportbrake

    The tabbing and framing cell takes the Sportbrake body floor out of the assembly line to have the side body panels, roof and other components put in place, tabbed and then welded by robots.
    13 January, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • AGV Solutions formed in North Carolina

    AGV Solutions has a complete line of forklift AGVs, unit-load AGVs and specialty AGVs to handle loads ranging from light-duty logistics to heavy loads in the steel industry.
    06 January, 2015 | 1 minute
  • Egemin promotes Thomas Kaminski to CEO

    Kaminski has been with Egemin Automation for over a decade, most recently as Vice President of Engineering.
    19 December, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Westfalia Automates Southern Wine & Spirits

    Using an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) and Savanna.NET warehousing software, the facility stores 24,750 pallets and is equipped for pallet storage up to 10 pallets deep.
    11 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Egemin to provide chain conveyor in China

    KXTX in Wuhan, China, will become the first Chinese company in the industry with an automated in-floor chain conveyor system.
    08 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Patti Engineering Installs PC-based Sorting System

    By Georgia Whalen, Patti Engineering Patti used Phoenix Contact PCs to automate high speed inline checkweighers on a parcel sortation system for Fives Intralogistics.
    04 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • SmartCheck keeps cranes craning

    By installing condition monitoring systems on its gantry cranes, port operator RheinCargo is now able to detect any damage to crane hoisting gear early, therefore eliminating any costly, unplanned downtime.
    24 November, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Murata Machinery acquires Cimcorp Group

    Muratec and Cimcorp are both companies in the material handling system business.
    03 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Service Robot market growing

    For the period of 2014 to 2017, sales forecasts indicate an increase to about 134,500 units with an estimated value of US$ 18.9 billion.
    30 September, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Kardex Remstar appoints Thomas Coyne President

    Kardex Remstar is a provider of automated storage and retrieval systems for manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, offices and institutions.
    18 September, 2014 | 1 minute
  • IMTS show report

    IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 was the fourth largest IMTS in history and the largest six-day show ever with registration of 114,147 representing 112 countries.
    17 September, 2014 | 10 minutes
  • Daifuku America adds office space

    Daifuku America added 8,000 square feet of new office space and remodeled their existing building in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
    09 September, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Manufacturing Technology Orders Down in July

    July U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $354.63 million, down 11.5% from June and down 1.4% when compared with the total of $359.70 million reported for July 2013.
    08 September, 2014 | 3 minutes
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