Manufacturing Showcase: Big Blue Saw
While earning his keep as a freelance IT consultant, Simon Arthur began designing and building robotic war machines, or “battle bots,” and entering them...
ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation
ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation – part of the global giant ABB Group, which also specializes in Electrification, Process Automation, and Motion – has...
Exact Metrology
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio – with additional locations in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and Moline, Illinois – Exact Metrology was launched in 2000 as a seller...
Combilift
For a company that was founded in 1998, Combilift has made extraordinary headway in terms of developing new lines of material handling equipment and...
Rollomatic, Inc.
The years seem to fly by as you consider the company’s founding in 1964 in Switzerland to the global OEM it is now less...
Big Kaiser
Heinz Kaiser founded his company in Switzerland in 1948 to provide tooling products throughout Europe. It launched U.S. operations in 1990, just three years...
The Schaeffler Group
The foundation for the Schaeffler Group as it is known today was laid in 1946 when brothers Dr. Wilhelm Schaeffler and Dr.-Ing. E.h. Georg...
Custom Industrial Products, Inc.
It all began with a sketch on a cocktail napkin. Henry Powers and Darlene Taylor, who owned a small construction equipment company in Melbourne,...
Sky Hook Lifting Devices
It’s been more than half a century since Edwin “Chris” Christensen recognized the need for a safe lifting device for the machining industry and...
Infor
With a focus on manufacturing, Infor was launched in 2002 with the acquisition of a single industry-specific ERP technology. This served as the core...