It’s a product you don’t want to need, but sometime, maybe, you’ll be grateful it exists.
Allison Dempsey
Walk This Way – Taking Injuries and Accidents in Stride
Force of NatureCreating Smart Sustainability
“When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.”
— Cameron Sinclair, Open Architecture Network
Customer Care in Changing TimesASI, a Division of Thermal Technologies
Taking great pride in workmanship is a top priority for ASI, a company with more than 35 years of experience in specialized drying, curing, and cooling solutions for both the U.S. and overseas.
From Alberta to the World StageLJ Welding Automation
With cutting-edge industrial facilities that include two buildings with 60,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space each and more than five acres of property, Edmonton, Alberta-based LJ Welding Automation has been providing high-quality welding equipment to the Canadian and international welding and fabrication industry for decades.
Dare, Dream, DiscoverThe Women Behind Incredible Inventions
There’s a fine line between inventor and innovator, between not only finding a niche that needs filling, but creating the very solution that changes lives for the better. Inventors have the unique ability to think creatively and produce original ideas that have made vast differences for humanity over the years, and even though throughout history some of the most notable inventions to date have been made by women, men have been credited and recognized for their creations much more often.
Making a Mark with Smart Pricing for Spare PartsMARKT-PILOT
With the goal of providing comprehensive market intelligence for spare parts offerings, MARKT-PILOT has modernized the pricing of replacement parts with the aid of its ground-breaking software, PRICE-RADAR, while fostering sustainable growth in the parts business. By aggregating data from more than 10,000 industrial sources and creating market transparency for each spare part, MARKT-PILOT’s solution can increase an organization’s part revenue by an average of 20 percent after applying a market-based pricing strategy.
Where Quality and Capability are Second to NoneEDSI
For more than 25 years, EDSI Inc. has produced essential parts for robotic systems used in painting, sealing, welding, and material handling applications, harnessing its impressive experience and expertise for the development and design of these systems
Game On and Keep Cool – Building a Better, Cooler ComputerCoolIT Systems
Keeping your cool doesn’t only apply to your temperament, especially when it comes to gaming. For CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) it means keeping high-performance desktop computers perfectly cool more efficiently than traditional air-cooling methods are capable of.
Raising Standards in the Forklift Market – Elevating EverythingLiftow Ltd.
As Canada’s top partner for comprehensive Toyota forklift and material handling solutions since 1960, Liftow Ltd. is the largest Toyota forklift dealer in North America. With their partner Toyota, the market leader, Liftow provides premium equipment, rentals, parts, service, training and safety products.
The Heart of the Matter: Striving for Safer SurgeryStereotaxis
At some point in their lives, everyone is expected to undergo a medical procedure, and knowing the physicians in charge have the best tools at their disposal can go a long way to easing anxiety on the operating table. With the goal of developing and providing cutting-edge surgical robotics that improve minimally invasive endovascular intervention, St. Louis, Missouri-based Stereotaxis Inc. is a pioneering company and leading authority.
Holding Steady: Canerector Keeps Business All in the FamilyCanerector
Embracing a strong belief in long-term business growth and continuous improvement, Canerector focuses on expanding rather than selling its acquired companies, cherishing their history, culture, leadership, and knowledge and, through its incentive program and aversion to bureaucracy, promoting an entrepreneurial mindset.
Who’s the Boss?Making Space for Makers
The last few years of lockdowns have been long and challenging. Isolation and job losses have affected the world. Industries across the board have been forced to adapt and move to remote work or let employees go.
Solving Complex Problems With Smart SolutionsPack-Smart Inc.
Innovative and performance-driven, Pack-Smart Inc. develops, engineers, and produces high-performance, fully automated modular systems for printing, converting, personalizing, and packaging, as well as industrial and digital automation. The company’s ability to create hardware and software innovations that address difficult engineering, manufacturing, and distribution challenges while attaining the highest speeds, greatest precision, and world-class Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is one of the many keys to its success.
To Grow a Company, Start by Growing Your CustomersAdaptec Solutions
Adaptec Solutions is a full-service provider of automation and material handling solutions with lifecycle service capabilities. Adaptec increases the productivity and profitability of its customers with an integrated system of analytics and connectivity, tracking and diagnosing equipment performance, making the process of resolving operational complexity far simpler.
For Machinists By Machinists: A Celebration of Innovation5th Axis Inc.
Established in 2004 as a CNC business with just one machine, San Diego-based 5th Axis Inc. has enjoyed steady success over the years, now working with more than 100 three-, four-, and five-axis machines, producing a wide variety of parts for a range of sectors, all while withstanding difficult and ever-changing production problems.
Making the Best Parts for the Worst ConditionsProgressive Rubber Industries Inc.
With 25 years in business, Progressive Rubber Industries Inc. (PRI) has mastered the technology of making abrasion, corrosion, and vibration resistant components for mining and the other industries that invented those very conditions.
People Power: Communication, Innovation, TeamworkSamco Machinery
What began as a one-man operation in 1972 has since flourished into a global enterprise with manufacturing locations in both Canada and India, an admirable feat that Samco Machinery Ltd. proudly embraces. A true family business, Samco was founded by Joe Repovs. The company is now run by his son, who carries on the goal of creating customized roll forming machines, value-added solutions and coil processing equipment, and providing innovative and unique services that meet and exceed specific customer needs.
Towering Achievements Come from Tiny TolerancesFreeport Welding
First, the nitty gritty. With more than 60 years of experience, Freeport Welding offers outstanding, innovative fabrication and maintenance services to marine, refining, and petrochemical industries. The company provides custom fabrication of ASME pressure vessels and API tanks, skids, cyclones, ductwork, and heavy plate fabrication. Its vast...
The Show Must Go OnEmbracing Industry 4.0 Post-Pandemic
The entire world is weary of hearing the word, but upon its arrival in 2020, Covid wreaked major havoc on our health, society, travel, business and pretty much every aspect of manufacturing across the globe. From medical equipment to automobiles, electronic parts and food products, the supply chain’s disruption is still being felt to this day, impacting numerous areas of daily life with soaring prices and the ongoing inability to access necessities.
Breaking the Mold for 25 YearsAutomation Plastics Corporation
The leading manufacturer of thick wall polyethylene components for natural gas distribution systems, Automation Plastics Corporation specializes in the custom molding of thermoplastic injection molded products for a wide range of commercial and industrial customers.
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