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November 2021
How Human-Robot Collaboration is Shaping the Workplace
Robotic Networks at Work
Why is automation, the process of introducing robotics into industry and making processes more machine-driven, so often spoken of in anxious tones? It’s clear that many, both insiders and onlookers,...
Alliance Automation
Offering Safer, More Efficient Processes to Industries in Need
American robotics systems manufacturer Alliance Automation offers automation solutions to a multitude of sectors. The company began operations in August 2008 when President and CEO Doug Wenninger,...
Adaptec Solutions
Customer-Centric – Creating a Caring Culture
It can be challenging for businesses to establish a company philosophy dedicated to putting employees and customers first, particularly when continual growth and acquisition are essential for...
4D Systems
Robotic Systems: Smarter, Better, Faster – and Nicer
The words “robotic systems” conjure up many images. However, if you automatically think “job losses,” you won’t be alone, but it couldn’t be further from the truth: 4D Systems puts humans and robots...
NGen
Building a Better Workforce Together
NGen’s mission has long involved strengthening the development of world-leading, advanced manufacturing capabilities in Canada through the promotion of technology, protecting the environment, and...
Molded Precision Components
Just What Canada’s PPE Industry Needs – a Game-Changer
When historians look back on COVID-19, they'll see nothing but change – in lives, relationships, politics, power, and education. And in industry, where a Canadian company spots the obvious and then...
International Custom Products (ICP)
A Business Boom Inspires Investment in Automation
For International Custom Products (ICP), the challenges of COVID-19 didn’t result in the well storied downturn in business typical of the global pandemic. How did this Toronto-based sewing company...
F&D Plastics
The Match Game – F&D Plastics Offers Color Consistency
When the team at F&D Plastics says they take customer service to the next level, they’re not kidding. For more than 50 years, this innovative and resilient company has consistently produced...
LasX Industries
Shifting Gears with an Innovative Product Line
LasX Industries, Inc., founded in 1998 in St. Paul, Minnesota, has new products, a new customer service initiative, and a new focus. When profiled April 2018 in Manufacturing in Focus magazine, LasX...
Lin Engineering Inc.
Motion Control Experts
Innovation is second nature at Lin Engineering Inc., where it has been built into the processes of company operations and integrated into the culture of the people who drive quality and performance...
August Electronics
Customer Service is the Key to Ongoing Success
Celebrating an impressive 30-year anniversary this year, Calgary-based August Electronics attributes that longevity to not only producing quality high-tech industrial and consumer electronics, but...
Eddyfi Technologies
Inspection Robots for Improved Asset Performance and Longevity
Discovering outstanding efficiency is always a delight, especially when it comes to taking care of big-ticket assets. Eddyfi Technologies provides the technology needed to monitor and maintain peak...
CRANE 1
No Ceiling to CRANE 1’s Commitment to Customer Uptime
At CRANE 1, customer service and safety are top priorities. And under the leadership of President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Vevoda, outstanding products – and an outstanding company culture...
A+ Group
A Complete Solution
A+ Group has been providing manufacturers with plastic and metal hardware for a quarter of a century. Armed with an extensive inventory and multiple distribution centers, the Marlboro, New...