Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. in Euclid has acquired Inovatech Engineering Corp. of Ontario, Canada, and related assets, for an undisclosed amount. Inovatech makes "advanced robotic plasma cutting ...

Rosie, American Steel's robotic arm with an 11-foot reach and a plasma torch for cutting steel, is all elbows. With a half million dollar price tag and its own little control booth, the robot can feel ...

Robotic welding system supplier uses Softing’s tManager Enterprise Appliance Transaction Module to deliver PLC data to enterprise-level databases for production recipe storage and retrieval. TranTek ...

Industrial processes are becoming more and more accessible to hobbyists and engineering renegades, those unaffiliated with research institutions or patent-churning corporations. Case in point, as of ...

Waterjets can quickly cut a variety of materials, including aerospace metals, and turn them into complex and curved parts. Waterjets use a stream of high-pressure water mixed with abrasives to slice ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Feb 10, 2012 at 8:57 am ...