United Grinding Receives Award from FANUC

United Grinding North America, Inc. (Miamisburg, OH) earned recognition for the outstanding growth of their sales of FANUC America Corporation (Rochester Hills, MI) robotic systems at the 20th annual FANUC Authorized Systems Integrators (ASI) meeting. The awards ceremony honored distributors and manufacturers alike who helped customers achieve improved productivity and higher throughput with innovative automated systems.

“We were thrilled to be recognized for our efforts in growing their sales,” said Simon Bramhall, the general manager of North America Automation Solutions for United Grinding. Whether it’s the flexLoad standard automation system or one of the custom systems we’ve helped develop for customers, we’ve strived to serve as the single-source provider of automated systems for our grinding technology – a mission made possible by our partnership with them.”

The ASI meeting brings together automation integration leaders from across the manufacturing industry for annual reports and continuing education opportunities. Topics of discussion this year included an overview of the automation industry, introductions to new product features, approaches to financing capital purchases and a panel discussion about educating the next generation of manufacturing professionals, among many others. The event also included the annual Innovative System of the Year contest that recognizes outstanding integrators from across the country.

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