- Newsmakers
MOVERS & SHAKERS Misumi USA, Inc. appoints Masanori Suzuki president. It also appoints Misa Nishimura director of marketing and inside sales and hires Dwayne Roark as senior marketing manager for the Factory Automation Group. Flint Group hires Charles Knott as CEO. He will succeed Dave Frescoln, who will become deputy ......
- Sites To Surf
One of the beauties of the Internet is that you can get information on virtually any technology with just a little surfing. Often, your surfing will carry you to a professional society organized to provide members and others with data, research, and opportunities for networking. For example, CAD users can ......
- KUKA Robotics Corp., a manufacturer of industrial
robots, announced it has signed Nercon Engineering and Manufacturing
Inc. of Oshkosh, Wis., as its newest system partner.
KUKA Robotics Corp., a manufacturer of industrial robots, announced it has signed Nercon Engineering and Manufacturing Inc. of Oshkosh, Wis., as its newest system partner. The companies will work together to deliver expanded automation offerings to the packaging and material handling markets. Nercon is a full-service engineering company and a ......
- Robotics orders shot up 28% in first three quarters of 2003
Ann Arbor, MI—New orders for industrial robots received by North American manufacturers increased 28% to 10,382 orders in the first three quarters of 2003 (1-3Q03) from 8,101 orders during the same period in 2002, according to recent research by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA). Meanwhile, the value of these orders ......
- PROFILES & CASE STUDIES
United Grinding's Online Resource Tool United Grinding Technologies Inc. (UGT), industry leader in grinding technology, announces the launch of a new web-based "grinding portal" GRINDING.COM, to support manufacturers utilizing the grinding process in the production of their products. IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 The new "grinding portal" contains information beyond UGT's product ......
- Real-time communications by time slicing
Ethernet Powerlink is a decentralized real-time communication system for automation and motion control, which originally was developed by B&R Industrial Automation Corp.'s Austria-based parent company, Bernecker & Rainer Industrie Elektronik GmbH. B&R's innovation reportedly helped make Ethernet deterministic for real-time industrial applications. B&R's automation products feature Ethernet Powerlink in visualization, ......
- Record year for North American robotics
Ann Arbor, MI—Continuing growth cited by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) should be welcome in the manufacturing sector. North American robotics companies posted record new orders in 2005, surpassing the previous high of 1999, according to RIA's report " The Robotics Market: Year 2005 Results and Trends. " Some 18,228 ......