Sponsors

The Automation Conference (TAC) offers companies an exciting new venue for connecting automation professionals across all industries, including manufacturing, processing and packaging operations. Our program is designed to facilitate networking and includes a limited number of tabletop exhibits. For more information about TAC sponsorship opportunities, please contact your Summit Media Group sales representative or Courtney Richards at (800) 355-5595.

Thank you to our 2012 sponsors:

Platinum Sponsor

Lenze is a global manufacturer of electrical and mechanical drives, motion control and automation technology. Our products can be found in many industries, including automotive, packaging, material handling and logistics, robotics, and commercial equipment (pumps/fans). A global network of distributors and representatives makes Lenze Americas perfectly positioned to meet the motion control needs of customers worldwide. Lenze Americas, the American subsidiary of Lenze SE of Germany, is headquartered in Uxbridge, Massachusetts; corporate global headquarters are in Hamelin, Germany. Lenze Americas can be found online at http://www.lenzeamericas.com/

Silver Sponsors

	UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment, Life & Health, Knowledge Services and Verification Services. UL's breadth, established objectivity and proven history make them a symbol of trust, enabling them to help provide peace of mind to all.
	Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and the performance leader in industrial training and education programs. Festo's aim is maximised productivity and competitiveness for their customers.
	Beckhoff Automation provides advanced, open automation products based upon proven industrial technologies so that manufacturers and machine builders can implement high performance control systems faster and at a lower overall cost than traditional PLC and motion control systems.
	Moxa Americas, Inc. offers world-class industrial networking products to systems integrators and value-added resellers in over 60 countries. Clients place great trust in Moxa's business and environmental practices, which are backed by ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certification.
	Bosch Rexroth brings to The Automation Conference our leading experts in Mechatronics and in Packaging Automation to find out what today's automation professionals need. We supply hydraulics, pneumatics, electric drives, motors and control systems, and linear motion and assembly technologies to more than 500,000 customers worldwide across a broad spectrum of industries, but more importantly we have realigned our business operations to match the application requirements of our customers — providing Ingenious Solutions to Tough Applications, Exactly.

Bronze Sponsor

	ZPI Inc.'s industry leading software suite provides accurate and comprehensive data collection and analytical tools that provide packaging, manufacturing and processing facilities with the business intelligence required to increase availability, improve performance, reduce quality defects, increase outputs, decrease costs, and increase profit margins.
	Pro-face America is a leading global supplier of a broad range of industrial automation hardware and software solutions. Our principal products include the Pro-face brand operator interfaces and HMI software, and Xycom brand industrial computers. Pro-face offers dedicated and PC-based, open-architecture, visualization and control solutions.
	Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company with more than 100 years of experience providing energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power.
	Plex Systems Inc. is the developer of Plex Online, a SaaS ERP (software as a service) Cloud ERP solution for the manufacturing enterprise. Plex Online offers industry-leading features for virtually every department within a manufacturer, including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Quality Management Systems (QMS) for the shop floor, Supply Chain Management (SCM) for procurement, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for finance and management.
	CC-Link IE (Industrial Ethernet) is the first Gigabit Ethernet-based factory/process automation network. CC-Link IE enables seamless data communication from the plant-level enterprise network to the production floor network. It is inherently deterministic without the need for Ethernet switches. CC-Link IE technology is managed by the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA).
	Kepware Technologies established in 1995, develops a wide range of communication and interoperability software solutions for the Automation industry. Our flexible and scalable solutions are for connecting, managing, monitoring, and controlling diverse automation devices and software applications.

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