Authors

Mike Meyer is executive vice president of technical services for RoboVent, Sterling Heights, Michigan. He is based in Anderson, South Carolina. For more information about the company’s industrial ventilation and filtration equipment, call 877-959-7639 or visit www.robovent.com.

Mike Plankey is senior technical services specialist for Kennametal Industrial Products Group, Evans, Georgia. For more information about the company’s cutting tools, call 888-434-4311 or visit www.grii.com/it.

Mike Principato is a metalworking industry consultant and former owner of a midsized CNC and EDM shop in Pennsylvannia. He can be e-mailed at [email protected].

Mike Restall is the production manager for Superbolt Inc., Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Mike Sasnett is president of M*Squared Co., Los Altos, California.

Mike Vest is Operations Manager at Amada Miyachi America. For more information about Amada Miyachi America, visit the company website.

Mike Yates is national sales manager, integrated scales and sensors, at MTI Corp., Aurora, Illinois.

Mitchell Kirby is vice president of manufacturing for Riten Industries Inc., Washington Court House, Ohio. For more information about the company’s standard and custom workholders, call (800) 338-0027 or visit www.riten.com.

Mohamed Hashish is senior vice president, technology, with Flow International Corp., Kent, Washington. For more information about the company’s waterjet systems, call (800) 446-FLOW or visit www.flowcorp.com.

Monalisa Rath is an experienced market research writer and has written extensively about the industrial automation landscape. At Fact.MR, she works closely with the industrial automation research team to serve the needs of clients from across the globe. The information presented in this article is based on a report by Fact.MR.

N.C. Kishore is responsible for the user experience and marketing of Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp.’s machining solutions, Waltham, Mass. He has an M.B.A. in integrative business manage-ment, a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and 18 years of manu-facturing experience with the company.

Nancy Narbut is an engineer for Norton Co., Worcester, Massachusetts.