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Guide details family of Genuine Wrap Spring clutches and clutch/brake packages and accessories, friction clutches and brakes, and custom engineered clutch brake products.

Web site has streamlined content about automated material handling technologies in seven languages.

The Remstar Shuttle VLM is an enclosed system of vertically arranged trays. The brochure outlines how the VLM can reclaim up to 85% of otherwise wasted space.

Siemens will be providing PLCs, Profinet, mechanical design and acting as the general contractor for the mechanical and electrical integration of the project.

FKI Logistex installed a new put module and routing sortation system at Forzani's distribution center (DC) in Toronto.

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.

ABB reported record orders, revenues and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) in the second quarter of 2008, with net income reaching $975 million.

Booklet describes the 10 most common and costly errors that companies make when preparing product news releases.

MML Capital Partners and PaR's management have teamed to acquire the company from American Capital Ltd.

Hogan is currently CEO of GE Healthcare and is a member of the GE Senior Executive Council. He will join ABB on September 1, 2008.

Mikron helped Mega Pumps develop assembly, checking and testing systems that work within the tolerances and with minimum of scrap and rejection.

Romheld Automation Australia will distribute Toellner automation products and services throughout the Australian and New Zealand manufacturing markets.

By Jim McMahon Accumulation conveyors, slug merging and high-speed sortation combine to streamline waving, increase throughput and reduce product breakage at Florida distribution center.

Equipment includes PLC-based control panels, Proficy HMI/SCADA, CIMPLICITY, and VersaMax I/O to control ash material handling at Macawber Beekay's plant in New Delhi, India

Meier first joined the Barry-Wehmiller organization in 1990 and spent 17 years with Barry-Wehmiller Design Group,.

The 31,000-square-foot facility provides companies with an effective way to train maintenance and operations staff off-site, avoiding costly system downtime.

MTpro integrates CAD and layout tools to save planning time in any assembly or packaging application with Rexroth products.

The group provides customers with focused robotic palletizing and depalletizing solutions, including system design, manufacture, programming and support.

ABB's first-quarter net income reached $1 billion, an increase of 87 percent compared to the same quarter in 2007.

Ultra-precise merge gapping, parallel diverting sortation with linear induction motors, modular variable-speed functionality and single-point system control – JCPenney’s new Lathrop, California DC with its Integrated Sortation Sub-System (ISS) technology including a 980-foot long single-unit continuous sorter from Dematic, is processing up to 165,000 cases per day at 99.9 percent accuracy.