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Electromate Inc. is proud to announce that the organization has been named on the 2021 list of Best Workplaces in Professional Services.

The survey is designed to determine a reasonable foundational set of knowledge needed to secure control systems.

National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) President and CEO Debra Phillips issued a statement upon President Biden's signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Photon system increased solar power generated by 10%, while reducing cost of labor by 20-30%.

International report also reveals 52% of respondents feel more valued as a frontline worker since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Providers of industrial equipment field service are responsible for dispatching technicians to remote locations, and field service management (FSM) technology provides holistic communication to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), dispatchers, technicians and customers. A quality FSM partner can tailor its products, integration packaging and templates to different industries, sizes of customer, and workforce compositions.

Electromate Inc. is proud to announce that it has been named on the 2021 list of Best Workplaces in Ontario. Electromate Inc. received this honour after a thorough and independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work.

As labor issues persist, Universal Robots, the pioneering leader of collaborative robotics, will show PACK EXPO attendees automated solutions for hard-to-staff tasks such as box erecting and palletizing. Powering many of these applications is the company’s most popular cobot, the UR10e, now able to lift 25% more.

The value of human life is incalculable. Our industries and manufacturing facilities have not evolved to a stage where worker injuries are completely eliminated. But we have advanced significantly in worker safety compared to the first few epochs of the industrial revolution. This was made possible by a gradual improvement in mechanization and process automation.

Asset Guardian Solutions Limited (AGSL), a leading innovator in protecting Industrial Automation and Control Systems software, is pleased to announce the appointment of two employees to newly created roles within the company, as it experiences record growth due to Global demand for its Enterprise Solution.

Software industry veteran and ex-Google exec Victor Lin to head engineering and computer vision teams as Symbio adds highly experienced leaders to accelerate company growth and scale.

Anvl announced that their Connected Worker platform has surpassed the milestone of 10 million data points collected from frontline workers and supervisors.

More than 100,000 employees in the chemical processing and oil and gas sectors lost their jobs in 2020, and U.S.-based companies were already looking at a shortfall of at least 40,000 skilled positions by 2025. The knowledge drain and the related skills gap open up an opportunity to make digital solutions a key part of future operations.

A growing list of leading manufacturers are finding that AR can be applied to a variety of industrial issues.

According to 2019 figures from the UK Government, there are now just over a million women (1,019,400) in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce. This translates to an increase of more than 350,000 women (24%) entering these areas of work. While this may be encouraging to hear, there is still a long way to go for gender equality in these male-dominated industries.

The right software can dynamically detect changes in data patterns and create best-fit forecasting models to account for multiple variables like warehouse workload, employee preferences, corporate equity rules, labor laws and regulations, and much more.

A new management team is to take over operational business of the company; the shareholders continue to be exclusively members of the Philipp family.

The management team of Okuma America Corporation, a world-leading builder of CNC machine tools, controls and automation systems, is pleased to announce the promotion of Mike Vassil to vice president of operations.

Small companies may not have the luxury of state-of-the-art, high-end manufacturing and test equipment, but they can still embrace a hybrid workforce and harness untapped potentials of distributed and remote workers.