Controls & Machine Components

Industry Speaks: The Shifting Landscape of Aftermarket Services

As the demand for aftermarket services grows, the industry faces challenges in parts availability, lead times, and skilled technician shortages, prompting a shift towards digital solutions.

March 10, 2025

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Workforce

Fernando Callejon Joins Beckhoff USA as Product Marketing Leader

Beckhoff USA

Extensive engineering and product marketing experience make Callejon the ideal expert to guide the launch and promotion of breakthrough automation technologies from Beckhoff.

March 6, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

E-PAK Machinery Names New Regional Sales Manager

E-Pak Machinery Inc.

E-PAK Machinery appoints Chase Swedersky to its sales team, where he will lead efforts in the Southeastern territory.

February 14, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Automation Unscrambles Bottling Chaos

Pace Packaging harnessed flexible automation in a versatile robotic unscrambling and orienting solution that delivers industry-leading throughput in an ultra-compact machine footprint.

February 11, 2025

Digital Transformation

Survey: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots to the Rescue?

New research from PMMI Media Group shows an appetite among CPGs for changing the way operators and technicians interact with machines on the plant floor. Is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?

January 31, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Promotes Brandon Snell to MX-System Product Manager

Beckhoff USA

Brandon Snell's role as MX-System Product Manager includes leading the strategic development and market introduction of the company's cabinet-free automation platform.

January 29, 2025

Controls & machine components

Fusion Capital Partners Acquires Tavoron

Tavoron

The acquisition is set to support Tavoron's growth in industrial automation solutions and leverage Fusion's expertise to enhance the company's market position.

January 24, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Builds Packing Industry Team

Beckhoff USA

Beckhoff promotes Greg Marsh to Packaging Industry Manager and Mark Ruberg to Food, Beverage, and CPG End User Business Development Specialist.

January 17, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Wintriss Announces Affordable ShopFloorConnect Packages

Wintriss Controls Group

Wintriss Controls Group has introduced flexible purchase options for its ShopFloorConnect software, allowing manufacturers across various industries to implement OEE data collection and production tracking solutions.

January 17, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Bishop-Wisecarver Acquires Symation Inc.

Bishop-Wisecarver

Acquisition combines Bishop-Wisecarver's linear and rotary motion solutions with Symation's motion control system integration to create Wisecarver Automation.

January 16, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Weidmuller USA Celebrates 50 Years

Weidmuller USA

Weidmuller USA will mark five decades of growth and innovation in industrial connectivity and automation at a grand opening in the Spring at its new facility in Richmond, VA.

January 14, 2025

Digital Transformation

Rockwell Automation Taps Generative AI

A small language model (SLM) AI integration with Rockwell's Design Studio develops patterns, writes ladder logic & inputs parameters around processes like filling or case packing. Operators interact with, refine and add smart objects to improve processes.

December 3, 2024

Digital Transformation

Nvidia's Rev Lebaredian Ushers AI into Industrial Automation with Rockwell

As AI reshapes wider industrial automation and packaging specifically, Rockwell and Nvidia have partnered to pioneer integration between advanced computing and real-world applications, transforming manufacturing processes and workforce dynamics.

November 20, 2024