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  • March manufacturing technology orders up 30%

    March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $507.91 million according to AMT, up 30.4% from February and up 3.2% when compared with the total of $491.96 million reported for March 2012.
    13 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Mettler Toledo publishes Hazardous Area Catalog

    Catalog covers weighing solutions for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries with hazardous environments.
    10 May, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Jervis B. Webb to supply conveyors to Chrysler

    The project includes miles of inverted friction drive system at the Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, which will be used in the body paint process, as well as for delivery of car bodies between the paint shop and general assembly system.
    22 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to deliver hoisting systems to Canadian mine

    ABB will supply and install four complete mine hoist systems between 2015 and 2018.
    11 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Direct-drive Torque Motor Market is growing

    IMS Research says the global market for direct drive torque motor modules has grown from $98 million in 2008 to $195 million in 2012 and will grow to nearly $300 million in 2016.
    10 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to supply mine hoist systems to Uralkali, Russia

    ABB will supply mechanical hoists, skips, cages, and four feeding conveyors to Uralkali, one of the world’s largest potash producers.
    04 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to supply conveyor drive system for mine in Chile

    ABB will provide electrical equipment, including gearless conveyor drives, for Codelco’s El Teniente copper mine at 2,300 meters above sea level.
    02 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Daifuku Webb Promotes Brian Stewart to CEO

    Stewart was formerly President and Co-CEO of Daifuku Webb. He joined the Jervis B. Webb Company in 1981 as a Junior Engineer and has held numerous positions, including COO, Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Operations.
    01 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Intelligrated announces survey for distribution centers

    Rate Your Operation survey analyzes a distribution center’s material handling processes, equipment and maintenance programs.
    25 March, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Intelligrated acquires Datria Systems

    Datria, with offices in Denver, provides voice-enabled solutions for distribution and logistics, mobile field service management, and manufacturing processes.
    19 March, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Thinking Outside the Box

    By Bill Lydon, Editor At PackExpo there were two innovations that really stood out as representing “thinking outside the box” creative solutions - one was Adaptive Robotic Tooling by FESTO and the other was the XTS Linear Carrier System by Beckhoff Automation.
    04 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Control Techniques signs CP Automation as integrator

    CP Automation is a specialist in the repair and replacement of automation equipment including electronic boards, PLCs and AC and DC drives.It will work in the UK cranes and hoists market.
    18 February, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • U.S. manufacturing technology orders: Best year since 1996

    December U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $499.43 million according to AMT, the highest order total in 13 years.
    11 February, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Mettler-Toledo publishes weigh module integration handbook

    Handbook provides expert advice on the design and application of load cells and weigh modules for tanks, silos, vessels, hoppers and conveyors.
    06 February, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ARC publishes Warehouse Management Systems Guide

    The guide allows companies going through a WMS supplier selection process to make quicker and better decisions.
    29 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Art to Part Manufacturing Shift

    Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor Art to Part has been a vision since the 1970's to have a holistic computer aided product design to manufacturing process. The technology is available today, but manufacturers also need to make organizational changes to fully leverage it.
    25 January, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Gebhardt signs Invata Intralogistics as systems integrator

    Invata will provide the software and system integration end of U.S. build outs for Gebhardt Material Handling Systems.
    21 January, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Siemens Serves Users by Adding EtherNet/IP

    Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor The addition of an EtherNet/IP stack to the Siemens Sinamics drives offers another option and makes life easier for users and machine builders. The Sinamics S120 drive products now support Profibus DP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Ethernet TCP/IP.
    19 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Tofino Security Appliance Thwarts Cyber Attacks

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The Tofino Security Appliance and its management software withstood a variety of sophisticated reverse engineering attacks conducted by Digital Bond, the world's most respected sources for control system security research.
    19 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Invata Intralogistics supplies software to ShopJimmy

    Invata helped design the fulfillment center material handling system, and will supply software.
    17 January, 2013 | 1 minutes
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