Monday’s opening keynote, “The Impact of Robotics on Economic Growth,” drew a 50/50 split of attendees for both ProMat and Automate, according to a show of hands requested by presenter Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of ...
Tags: Robotics, automation, robot maintenance
Lenze Americas (Booth 1763) has expanded its support of materials handling systems with a fully integrated, energy-efficient package of software, plus drive- and controller-based systems for automation. On display are multiple frequency ...
Tags: motor drive technologies, gear motors, electric drives
More than 50 educators and administrators from technical high schools, colleges and community colleges around the country will attend Wednesday's day-long Technical Career Education Conference. The participants will learn how to establish a ...
Tags: Technical educators, materials handling, logistics training
Ashland, Kentucky-based ALJ Regional Holdings has announced that based on conversation with Optima Specialty Steel, Inc. regarding its efforts to secure sufficient financing to complete the acquisition of ALJ's majority-owned subsidiary, ...
Tags: ALJ Regional Holdings, Optima Specialty Steel, acquisition, steel
Schneider Packaging Equipment will introduce the Robotic Vertical Carton/Case Loader (RVCL) as well as the E3 palletizer at Automate SM 2013, which will be held from 21 to 24 January in Chicago, Illinois, US. RVCL has been designed for ...
Tags: Schneider, automation technologies, Packaging Equipment
Celebrating 15 years of lifting innovation, Combilift USA (Booth 1038) is highlighting five different multi-directional forklifts and sideloaders products at ProMat. “We currently have more than 18,000 units operating ...
Siemens (Booth 635) announced the launch of its Simogear line of geared motors, touting the motors and related technologies as ideal for meeting the needs of a resurgent North American manufacturing industry. At a Monday press conference, ...
Tags: Siemens, geared motor line, geared motors
Debuting as a ProMat exhibitor for the first time, SpeedCell Storage Systems (Booth 4147) offers a line of subdivided, movable vertical columns constructed of fabric for product storage. Previous iterations of the product have been ...
At a Monday press conference, TECSYS (Booth 3872) announced a new set of tools and application knowledge named “SMART” that is aimed at wringing more value from its supply chain execution software. Robert Colosino, VP of ...
Tags: software value, TECSYS, software
At a press conference Monday, Raymond Corporation (Booth 3219) announced a new class of fleet management and labor management systems. Its iWarehouse product has been divided into two new products. iWarehouse Essentials is focused on the ...
UAE - In December 2012, the two worlds largest Barco video screens were installed on a part of The Dubai Mall Metro Link Travelator project. Both screens, one on the Downtown side and one on the Creek side of the fly-over, are 20m wide ...
Tags: video screens, mega screens, screens
In response to the growing demand for alternative methods of online payment, CashU and Royal Jordanian Airlines (RJ) on Monday announced a new partnership that will allow customers to complete secure transactions on www.rj.com using ...
An Arizona school district is mulling over whether to continue working on a major software project, upgrade its legacy system or restart from scratch with a different product. The Tucson Unified School District began working on the Lawson ...
The agency responsible for administering the federal program for electronic health records (EHRs) said it plans to address the complaints healthcare providers are making about the implementation process. Additionally, an important ...
Tags: electronic health records, healthcare, EHR Incentive Program
The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
Tags: supercomputers, powerful machines, US Department of Energy