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Orders to non-automotive companies surged, an encouraging sign for future robotics growth, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's trade group. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14477%2etxt Oil/Energy Prices Cited as a Substantial Barrier to Growth; Concerns Escalate Over Lack of Demand and Monetary Exchange Rates http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14359%2etxt A custom integrator of turnkey automated inspection machines for quality control, Cincinnati Automation "saw the light" — adopting a new LED backlit conveyor to convert automotive part gaging from a step-by-step to continuous process, more than tripling throughput. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14335%2etxt Building and testing physical prototypes — an expensive, time-consuming task in traditional product development — is one area that manufacturers are critically examining to reduce overall design costs and speed time to market. Physical prototyping can be a major bottleneck, slowing down the product development process and seriously constraining the number of design alternatives that can be examined. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14291%2etxt Walls + Forms Inc. now offers a fin kerf cap system that makes it simple to create usable wall space and merchandising displays using your hub system. It is ideally suited for adding slatwall, FoamCore, and other panel types for merchandising and exhibit applications. Using a panel product such as the Walls + Forms PVC-3700 Series Slatwall, the edges are supplied capped with a specially designed extrusion for hub systems that creates a support frame. The user simply assembles the hubs and bottom railing and then slides the supported frame into the hubs and bottom railing. The panel is now captured on all sides. Finally, the user secures the top railing to finish off the panel. Again, the panel is supported on all four sides. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14268%2etxt With the increasingly high demand for quick and efficient order fulfillment, supply chains are more important and more complex than ever. The integral role they play to any manufacturer and their ability to enhance or potentially devastate a company has given supply chains unprecedented scrutiny. Given their expensive and important nature, companies are increasingly paying attention to the intricacies of supply chain solutions to drive their efficiency and overall success. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14149%2etxt To do its job, the U.S. military machine constantly needs goods and that keeps places like Accu-Counter Technologies Inc. busy. The northern Kentucky company, which sells shot counters for weapons, ships most of its products to clients like the U.S. Special Operations Command. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14146%2etxt INDIANAPOLIS--Vontoo, the world’s first permission-based voice messaging provider, announces that it has received nearly $2 million in private funding as a result of its customer base growing 1,000 percent in 2007 with quarter-to-quarter overall growth more than doubling during that time period. http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14133%2etxt Sometimes we would rather be wrong, but the numbers continue to reinforce our dour take on current economic conditions. The latest evidence comes in a set of numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday. Some quick calculations by senior economist Jared Bernstein showed that paychecks for typical workers are shrinking at an accelerating rate. January saw a loss of 1.4% in buying power, compared to steady real growth of 2.0% last year. The dive was caused by a combination of three factors: wage growth slowed, employers cut back on weekly hours, and inflation ticked up (boosted by high energy prices). Our prognosis is that wages will continue to stagnate or shrink through the year. As EPI President Larry Mishel said in a piece for The Nation by Nancy Cleeland, "For workers, this is as good as it's going to get for a while." http://saws.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14025%2etxt With the rapid growth and all departments struggling to keep up, ATI was experiencing difficulty managing its on-time delivery requirements as well as inventory control. The company couldn’t take any chances in having any degradation of product quality, and customer satisfaction which meant meeting on time delivery schedules and providing the same high quality of service. 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