Industry News

News • October 18, 2018

BobCAD-CAM Inc. partners with SystemCreate Co.

Clearwater, FL -- (www.bobcad.com) -- To our valued customers, partners and resellers: We are incredibly pleased to announce that BobCAD-CAM software and SystemCreate Co. are aligning together for a new partnership, further catering to the manufacturing solutions of tomorrow.

News • October 17, 2018

Serge Abou-Jaoudé hired by Dorner Manufacturing Corp.

HARTLAND, Wis., (September 4, 2018) — Serge Abou-Jaoudé has been named Vice President – Dorner Europe.

News • October 17, 2018

OnRobot A/S acquires Purple Robotics

ODENSE, Denmark, August 30 – Purple Robotics, which has just developed an innovative vacuum gripper within just one year—the world's first gripper specifically for cobots—has now been acquired by OnRobot.

News • October 16, 2018

Nevada home to latest Haas Automation Inc. milestone

Haas Automation, Inc., is pleased to announce the installation of the 200,000th Haas CNC machine – another major milestone in the company's history as a machine tool builder.

News • October 16, 2018 • Andrea Olson

The skills gap isn’t the only workforce challenge

We talk extensively about the "skills gap" facing manufacturing. The problem is this only partially true. Yes, there's a deficit in our skilled trades pipeline, and as employers, educators and communities, we need to rally around the value of skilled trades and support the growth of this critical workforce - starting in junior high and beyond. Yet, there's another gap that mid-market manufacturing is facing - The Strategic Gap - and it has many facets.

News • October 15, 2018

Arch Cutting Tools hires Bill Orris

ARCH Cutting Tools is pleased to announce and welcome Bill Orris as Manager of Technical Product and Sales Training.

News • October 10, 2018

Pamela Sims promoted at Motion Industries Inc.

Birmingham, AL – Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, announced the promotion of Pamela Sims to Vice President of Marketing, effective September 1, 2018.

News • October 10, 2018

CNC Software Inc. appoints Mike Nicholson

Tolland, CT – CNC Software, Inc., the developers of Mastercam, announced that Mike Nicholson has been hired as the European Territory Manager to further develop the company's European distribution channel.

News • October 1, 2018

Harvey Performance Co. LLC partners with Autodesk Inc.

ROWLEY, MA (August 29, 2018) – Harvey Performance Company is proud to announce, effective immediately, the entire end mill tool libraries for both Harvey Tool and Helical Solutions, representing more than 14,000 SKU's, are available to upload into Autodesk's Fusion 360 CAM Software.

News • October 1, 2018

Gear Motions Inc. promotes one, hires one

Syracuse, NY – Gear Motions announces long-time employee Dan Bartelli has been promoted to Director of Operations of Nixon Gear, and Anna Pastore has been hired to the position of Corporate Controller.

News • October 1, 2018

Renishaw Inc. opens additive manufacturing demo center

West Dundee, IL – August 29, 2018 – Renishaw, a manufacturer of advanced metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems, has opened a new Additive Manufacturing Demonstration Center in Newbury Park, California.

News • October 1, 2018

Ceratizit SA inaugurates Ceratizit Jacques Lanners Halle at trade fair

CERATIZIT S.A., Mamer, Luxembourg, 23 August 2018--Under the auspices of its marketing partnership with Messe Stuttgart, the CERATIZIT Group has obtained the right to choose a name for Hall 3 on the trade fair grounds for the next 10 years.