Both Ford facilities have undergone major transformations since they received the award, due to the evolving nature of the auto industry and changing consumer demand.
The ASSEMBLY Show South hosts numerous robot OEMs, as well as multiple suppliers of grippers and other robotic peripherals. Here’s a sampling of the new robotics technology that can be found on the show floor.
More than a decade ago, Northrop Grumman adopted production technology from the auto industry and unveiled an automated assembly line to mass-produce fuselages for the F-35 jet fighter.
The mainframe computers and enterprise systems produced at IBM’s operation in Poughkeepsie, NY
are the backbone of cloud computing, e-commerce, online banking, social media and other attributes of the digital age that most people take for granted.