Steven Smith has been named president of CNC Indexing & Feeding Technologies, Mason, Ohio. He will be responsible for managing CNC Indexing's daily operations as well as building a new national distribution network in the United States.

Smith comes to CNC Indexing & Feeding Technology from Heartland Machine & Engineering, Dayton, Ohio, where he spent 3 years expanding the company's customer base into new territories throughout Ohio and Northern Kentucky. He is experienced in identifying the best manufacturing solutions for different customer needs while at the same time significantly reducing production costs through streamlining workflow, trimming labor and material costs, and lessening risk.

As a project manager for Dayton, Ohio-based Gosiger, Smith marketed such top machining brands as Okuma and Hardinge after a successful career as a sales engineer at both Yamazen and Technical Equipment, Inc., where he sold $2 million in CNC machine tools and robotic automation equipment in his first year. He more than doubled that his second year in sales. Smith also has represented Brother, Takisawa, Toyoda, Makino, Doosan, Hermle and Tsugami machine tools in the Greater Cincinnati area.