After working tirelessly for six weeks, the student team from Forsyth Central High School in Cumming, GA won the district qualifier at the Georgia FIRST Robotics competition and also received the quality award. This is the first time the AutomationDirect-sponsored team has won the competition and everyone was smiling – including Smiley!
Lock-Jaw is a ‘heavyweight’ (250 lb.) robot built for the 2015 BattleBots competition on ABC. Lock-Jaw’s creator is veteran builder Donald Hutson from team Mutant Robots. Donald has competed in many types of combat robotics events including the original Robot Wars back in 1996 with his first 220 lb robot called Tazbot. Donald is also…
Annually the Atlanta Business Chronicle accepts nominations for “Atlanta’s Healthiest Employers Awards”. This award is determined with the assistance of Healthiest Employers, LLC, who review the applications and select 10 finalists. This award celebrates health in the workplace as well as organizations making strides in six key categories: Leadership Commitment, Foundational Components, Strategic Planning, Communication…
On January 12th, the publisher of AutomationWorld, Jim Chrzan, announced the list of “First Team” suppliers as recognized by their readers and subscribers for their Leadership in Automation 2015 program. The goal of the program is to showcase readers’ preferred suppliers across a variety of automation technologies.
Each year we send you Christmas wishes along with our thanks for being a valuable customer. This year we would once again like to wish you a Merry Christmas and say that we are thankful for customers like you. [videoembed type=”youtube” align=”aligncenter” width=”640″ height=”360″ url=”http://youtu.be/GzwIjJD9eTI” id=”GzwIjJD9eTI”] This year I would personally like to…
The most magical time of the year is finally here… AND it’s never a bad time to celebrate with Star Wars. So we at AutomationDirect thought what better way to wish someone season’s greetings than with a Star Wars themed holiday card that has a touch of industrial automation worked in. We hope you enjoy…
With the number of new and existing PLCs available on the market, it’s pretty difficult to stand out and get noticed. So what do you do? Well, you do what they can’t! And our latest industrial controller, the Productivity2000, delivers what the competition won’t – high performance at a lower cost. So what do I…
We’ve heard it said, “There is no ‘I’ in ‘team’.” This is especially true when it comes to quality industrial control suppliers. Not only must the products you need be in stock, there has to be a dependable sales staff to assist you in finding the right items for your application. There must also be a…
During the summer of 2015, while many Scouts were going to traditional summer camps, a group of Scouts from the Twin Rivers Council in New York spent a week at STEM Camp where they participated in Electronics, Engineering, Surveying, and Programming Merit Badges. The Scouts were thrilled to learn how to program the same PLCs that…
Automation Cookbook is a collection of short video chapters covering a wide variety of automation application topics. Each chapter starts with a “U can do it!” overview, which explains the capabilities and usefulness of a specific automation task. There is a group of “Tech Tips” videos in each chapter, where we detail technical nuggets and…