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Automation Contractors and Jobs is where manufacturers, system integrators, and professionals find real-time contracts, RFQs, and news on robotics, controls, PLCs, design, simulation, pneumatics, and project management—powered by Automate America’s 40,000-strong network. For broader industry trends, see the latest reports at the International Federation of Robotics. (https://ifr.org)
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How We Help Independent Contractors
We Bring You The Work! We do the sales and marketing for you; We give you access to the work from the world’s largest automation...
How We Help Contract Companies
Contract Companies = Service Partners on AutomateAmerica.com We built Automate America to solve your number one problem –...
How We Help Manufacturing and Part Suppliers
We are the Uber of Industrial Automation / the Angie’s List of Advanced Manufacturing Specialized in Automation and Machinery –...
New Manufacturing Facilities
The Best Way to Staff Your New Facility. Don't try to hire employees for every position, use Contractors that have ratings and...
How We Help Engineering Managers
On-Demand Contractors for Engineering When and Where You Need Them. You’re only as strong as your team and it takes a huge...
Swipe Right, Hired Overnight
Before technology, people received the news by word of mouth or various types of print media. Now the news is everywhere! It’s...
How to: Engage Engineers Effectively
Imagine buying a powerful and innovative device, but you don’t understand how to make it work to its full potential. That’s the...
6 Ways to Get the Perfect Candidate
Finding that perfect match made in heaven between industrial engineers and manufacturers has become more of a complex game of...
Main Automation Contractor (MAC)
A 'Main Automation Contractor', aka MAC, operates as a comprehensive system responsible for the entire life cycle of an...
Less is Not Always More
The best online platforms enable communication and connection that might not have otherwise occurred. The best ones accomplish...
Effect of Autonomous Vehicles on Automotive Manufacturing
Think of the future, and you’re likely to conjure up the usual utopian stand-bys: robots and holograms, teleportation tech and...
Don’t Post Your Resume!
Breakthrough technological advances are making life easier- while presenting a complex myriad of security threats. Internet...
Win for All Contractors and Service Companies!
Huge win for contractors, service companies and human cloud platforms! The US labor Dept. has announced that professionals...
The Human Cloud
Are you a part of the human cloud? You may very well be and not know it. The ‘human cloud’ is a buzz worthy term defined as the...
How Automate America is leading the charge to eliminating excess availability, and fulfilling everyone’s needs in the process
Excess, or surplus, doesn’t only manifest as physical things. Companies can have an overabundance of time and availability for...