UNITED GRINDING North America Wins Sales Growth Award at 20th Annual FANUC ASI Event
MIAMISBURG, Ohio, March 1, 2019 – UNITED GRINDING North America earned recognition for the outstanding growth of its sales of FANUC robotic systems at the 20th annual FANUC Authorized Systems Integrators (ASI) Meeting. The awards ceremony, which took place in Scottsdale, Arizona, on February 12, 2019, honored distributors and manufacturers alike who, like UNITED GRINDING North America’s Automation Solutions Department, helped customers achieve improved productivity and higher throughput with innovative automated systems.
“We were thrilled to be recognized for our efforts in growing FANUC sales,” said Simon Bramhall, general manager of UNITED GRINDING North America Automation Solutions. “Whether it’s the flexLoad standard automation system or one of the custom solutions 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 FANUC.”
The FANUC ASI Meeting brings together automation integration leaders from across the manufacturing industry for annual reports and continuing education opportunities from FANUC America. Topics of discussion this year include an overview of the automation industry, introductions to new FANUC 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, which recognizes outstanding integrators from across the country.
About UNITED GRINDING North America, Inc.
With nearly 200 employees across the U.S., Canada and Mexico and a new 110,000-sq.-ft. headquarters in Miamisburg, Ohio, UNITED GRINDING North America, Inc., strives to increase its customers' competitiveness through grinding and ultra-precision finishing solutions for the manufacturing industry, backed by single-source customer care. The company's surface and profile, cylindrical and tool grinding technology groups cultivate a partnership-based relationship throughout the region, selling, automating, rebuilding and supporting precision machines for grinding, eroding, laser ablation, combination machining and measuring under the MÄGERLE, BLOHM, JUNG, STUDER, SCHAUDT, MIKROSA, WALTER and EWAG brands. A subsidiary of the UNITED GRINDING GROUP, the company holds ISO 9001 certification to assure quality in development, production, shipping and support operations. UNITED GRINDING North America, Inc., also holds International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) Registration. Learn more at grinding.com.
About UNITED GRINDING Group
With a turnover of around 700 million euros, the UNITED GRINDING Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision machines for grinding, eroding, lasering, measuring and combination machining. With its eight company brands MÄGERLE, BLOHM, JUNG, STUDER, SCHAUDT, MIKROSA, WALTER and EWAG, UNITED GRINDING offers a broad application knowledge, an extensive product portfolio and a complete array of services on the international market. The Group employs a workforce of around 2500 employees and more than 20 production, service and sales locations and agencies throughout the world.
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