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CEO, chief technology officer leaving ABB

Published: May 16, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

ABB's CEO Joe Hogan has announced his decision to leave the company for private reasons. He joined the company as CEO in September 2008. He will...

Midwest Eng. Systems to offer welding systems

Published: May 8, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Midwest Eng. Systems Inc., a provider of custom machines and integrated systems in West Allis, Wis., has announced the expansion of technical...

AccuBilt celebrates 25 years in business

Published: May 8, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Materials Handling

AccuBilt Inc. of Jackson, Mich., marks 25 years in business in 2013. Founded in 1988, the company is a turnkey systems builder and integrator,...

Kuka Systems acquires Utica Companies

Published: April 24, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Kuka Systems Group, Augsburg, Germany, has acquired the plant engineering business of privately owned Utica Companies of Shelby Township, Mich., a...

Factory Automation Systems becomes RIA Certified Robot Integrator

Published: April 18, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Factory Automation Systems, Atlanta, has received the Certified Robot Integrator designation from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann...

Wolf Robotics establishes new website

Published: April 9, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Wolf Robotics has announced the launch of a new website at www.wolfrobotics.com. New features of the redesigned website include iPad®, tablet,...

ATI Industrial Automation launches new website

Published: March 28, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

ATI Industrial Automation, a developer of robotic peripheral equipment in Apex, N.C., has established a new website at www.ati-ia.com. It offers...

National Robotics Challenge to be held April 11-13

Published: March 19, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Training and Retention

The National Robotics Challenge promotes innovation and helps stimulate creativity in students using robotic technology. Students from 70 schools...

Bilsing Automation hires procurement/scheduling manager

Published: March 7, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Bilsing Automation, Clinton Township, Mich., has appointed Timothy Fry as procurement/scheduling manager, a new position developed to support the...

ABB Robotics, Fronius to collaborate on welding packages

Published: February 27, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

ABB Robotics, Auburn Hills, Mich., and Fronius Intl., Pettenbach, Austria, have entered a global agreement to collaboratively develop fully...

Association for Advancing Automation launches new website

Published: February 8, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), Ann Arbor, Mich., the umbrella trade association for the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA...

Weld-Ed establishes summer workshop series for welding educators

Published: February 4, 2013
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Aluminum Welding, Automation and Robotics, Assembly, Laser Welding, Welding Inspection

The National Center for Welding Education and Training (Weld-Ed), located at Lorain County Community College in Lorain, Ohio, has announced its...

Taylor-Winfield Technologies relocates to new office complex

Published: January 22, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Coil Processing

The Brilex Group of Companies has announced the completion of Taylor-Winfield Technologies' corporate office complex in Youngstown, Ohio....

Lincoln Electric acquires Tennessee Rand

Published: January 7, 2013
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc., Cleveland, has acquired privately held Tennessee Rand Inc., Chattanooga, Tenn., a designer and manufacturer of...

FANUC named top innovator by Forbes and Thomson Reuters

Published: December 13, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

FANUC Corp., a diversified manufacturer of CNC systems, robots, and machine tools in Hoffman Estates, Ill., has announced that it has been named...

Balluff adds staff in marketing, sales

Published: December 6, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Balluff Inc., a Florence, Ky., manufacturer of sensor technology for industrial automation, has announced the addition of several new positions in...

Genesis Systems Group Japan KK established

Published: December 3, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Robotic workcell integrator Genesis Systems Group, Davenport, Iowa, has established Genesis Systems Group Japan KK in Nagoya, Japan. Leading...

Bernard, Tregaskiss debut electronic newsletter

Published: November 28, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Bernard, Beecher, Ill., and Tregaskiss, Windsor, Ont., are launching a new, electronic newsletter filled with welding, business, and product...

Bernard, Tregaskiss partner for new branding initiative

Published: November 26, 2012
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Automation and Robotics

Bernard, Beecher, Ill., and Tregaskiss, Windsor, Ont., have partnered to launch a new branding initiative. As part of this initiative, several...

ESAB partners with Kuka Robotics

Published: November 17, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Arc Welding

ESAB, Florence, S.C., has announced a partnership with Kuka Robotics, Shelby Township, Mich., to create products and services for robotic arc...

Fronius USA appoints area sales manager

Published: November 5, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Fronius USA has hired Rick Whitfield as area sales manager, working from the Chattanooga, Tenn., location. Whitfield began his career in...

Webinar to highlight robotic material handling

Published: October 23, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Materials Handling

Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, Mich., will present a free webinar, “New Techniques in Robotic Material Handling,” on Nov. 1...

Cincinnati Incorporated appoints regional sales engineer

Published: October 1, 2012
Tech Cell: Laser Cutting, Bending, Automation and Robotics, Materials Handling, Shearing

Cincinnati Incorporated, Cincinnati, has named Darren Bobbitt as regional sales engineer for Arkansas and Oklahoma. Bobbitt, a 10-year veteran of...

Genesis Systems designated as RIA-certified robot integrator

Published: September 4, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Genesis Systems Group has received the new certified robot integrator designation from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, Mich....

Beckhoff Automation increases size of U.S. Technical Support Team

Published: August 14, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Beckhoff Automation LLC has announced the hiring of five technical support engineers at its Burnsville, Minn., headquarters. The new staff members...

FANUC America launches new website

Published: August 9, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

FANUC FA America, Hoffman Estates, Ill., has launched a new website at www.fanucfa.com with enhanced resources and functionality and expanded...

RIA announces winners of 2012 Engelberger Robotics Awards

Published: August 2, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, Mich., has named Richard Litt and Martin Buehler as the winners of its 2012 Engelberger...

Registration opens for Automate 2013

Published: July 17, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Free registration for the Automate 2013 Show and Conference, set for Jan. 21-24, 2013, at McCormick Place in Chicago, now is open and available at...

Patriot Automation CNC launches website

Published: July 16, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Patriot Automation CNC Inc., Saraland, Ala., has established a new website at www.patriotautomationcnc.com. The company offers a variety of...

Reis Robotics announces winners of Walter Reis Innovation Award for Robotics

Published: July 11, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Walter Reis, founder of Reis Robotics, Obernburg, Germany, has announced this year's winners of the Walter Reis Innovation Award for Robotics....

American Weldquip appoints district manager – southern region

Published: June 20, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

American Weldquip Inc., Sharon Center, Ohio, a manufacturer of semiautomatic and robotic torches and peripherals, has appointed Charles...

Vision-guided robotics webinar scheduled for June 7

Published: May 29, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

The Robotic Industries Association will host a webinar, "Robots: Vision Guidance Technology (2D)," on June 7 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. EDT. It...

RIA announces first certified robot integrators

Published: May 17, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced that JR Automation, Motion Controls Robotics, Tennessee Rand, and Wolf...

Lincoln Electric acquires Wayne Trail Technologies Inc.

Published: May 17, 2012
Tech Cell: Laser Welding, Automation and Robotics

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. has announced that it has acquired Wayne Trail Technologies Inc., a privately held Ohio-based manufacturer of...

Webinar to focus on robotic palletizing, depalletizing

Published: May 10, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

p class="bodytext">Robotic Industries Association will host a webinar on May 24 from noon to 1:00 p.m. EDT on the basics of palletizing and...

Boltech merges with Taylor-Winfield Technologies

Published: May 8, 2012
Tech Cell: Coil Processing, Materials Handling, Automation and Robotics

The Brilex Group of Companies has announced the merger of Boltech Inc. with Taylor-Winfield Technologies Inc. All current Boltech employees have...

ATI senior account manager named first female chair of RIA

Published: April 25, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has named Catherine Morris, senior account manager with ATI Industrial Automation, Apex, N.C., as...

Kuka receives two auto industry supplier excellence awards

Published: April 23, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Kuka Systems, a global systems integrator and developer of body shop automation systems for the automotive industry, has received supplier...

Motoman Robotics hosts student groups during National Robotics Week

Published: April 19, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

In the spirit of National Robotics Week, Motoman Robotics, a division of Yaskawa America Inc., Dayton, Ohio, hosted student groups from local...

Bystronic to open new headquarters in Illinois

Published: April 12, 2012
Tech Cell: Laser Cutting, Bending, Waterjet Cutting, Automation and Robotics

Bystronic Inc. will host the grand opening of its new North American headquarters May 3-4, 2012. The 48,300-sq.-ft. building, located in...

Wayne Trail receives FANUC Robotics sales award

Published: April 9, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Wayne Trail Technologies, Fort Loramie, Ohio, has received the Outstanding Sales Growth Award in the welding market from FANUC Robotics....

RIA webinar on April 12 to focus on fundamentals of industrial robotics

Published: April 2, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Robotic Industries Association will present a webinar on April 12 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST. Sponsored by ABB Inc., ATI Industrial Automation, and...

Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center opens Motoman robot lab

Published: March 22, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp., Dayton, Ohio, has announced the opening of the Motoman Robot Laboratory at the Southern Indiana Career...

Harrisburg Area Community College becomes MERIT center

Published: March 21, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Training and Retention

Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC), Harrisburg, Pa., is now a Motoman Endorsed Robotics Instructor Training (MERIT) center, serving the...

Bilsing Automation appoints global accounts director

Published: March 13, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Bilsing Automation, a manufacturer of modular tooling systems for pressrooms and body shops, has appointed Claus Dratz to the newly created...

Adept Technology names vice president of global operations

Published: March 13, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Adept Technology, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based provider of robots, motion controllers, application-development software, and vision-guidance...

Kardex Remstar launches revised Web site

Published: March 13, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Kardex Remstar has revised its Web site at www.kardexremstar.com. The updated site provides current information on the company's storage and...

RIA launches certified robot integrator program

Published: February 29, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, Mich., has launched a certified robot integrator program. "The idea for certification came to...

Genesis Systems Group hires director, global affiliate relations

Published: February 7, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

Robotic workcell integrator Genesis Systems Group, Davenport, Iowa, has hired Doug Boyd as director, global affiliate relations. In this role,...

ABB to acquire Thomas & Betts

Published: February 2, 2012
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics

ABB, with North American headquarters in Cary, N.C., has announced plans to acquire Thomas & Betts, Memphis, a manufacturer of low-voltage and...