Automation show joins WestPack

Complementing WestPack when it hits the Anaheim Convention Center January 31 is ATX, which will feature the latest in automation/assembly systems.

Dec 31, 2005

Billed as the west coast’s largest packaging event, WestPack returns to California’s Anaheim Convention Center January 31 to February 2.

Co-located with WestPack are four additional shows: Medical Design & Manufacturing West, Electronics West, Pacific Design & Manufacturing, and the new Automation Technology Expo (ATX) West. ATX West will feature the latest technological advances in custom automation/assembly systems, robotics, control software, sensors, switches, motors, drives, motion control, and vision inspection. Some 200 of the world’s leading automation, robotics, and related suppliers are expected.

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