Genesis Systems Group started as a one-man shop in 1983 and has grown to be one of North America’s largest robotic systems builders—with more than 4,000 system installations in 40 states and 12 countries.

From its headquarters in Oerlinghausen, Germany, Hanning Elektro-Werke manufactures custom drives, frequency invert-ers, pumps, linear actuators, fan motors and electric motors for customers across the globe.

Based in Abbotsford, BC, Overlanders Manufacturing is a large supplier of precision sheet metal and tubular products, including parts for the electronics industry. Many of these parts must be plated prior to fastener insertion.

Wind energy is green and sustainable. However, the wind-turbine towers that generate wind energy are built using traditional manufacturing techniques, such as welding.

If lean has taught us anything, it’s smaller is better. Smaller machines, smaller factories, smaller teams, smaller everything.

Earlier this year, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. chose Athens, GA, as the site for a new factory to assemble small tractors and excavators. The company will be reshoring some 1,400 jobs to the new facility from an existing plant in Japan.

Bolted joints are the vast majority of our consulting business. Our work is divided evenly between validating joints under development and troubleshooting problems with existing joints.

With a kinematic mechanism, the position of the end-effector is not determined by straight-line motion.

Opened in August 2011 to international acclaim, the new Great Wall Motors’ (GWM) automotive plant in Tianjin, China, produces 250,000 vehicles per year.

Acist (Advanced Contrast Imaging System Technology) is a medical device company that specializes in developing con-trast injection systems for use in cardiology and radiology.