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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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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...
A Disruptive B2B Marketplace
Unique and pioneering in it’s vision of establishing automation based gigs on a singular online platform, Automate America isn’t...
Robots are Adding Jobs!
Current headlines will tell you that automation eliminates jobs- but trends are indicating otherwise. While jobs are changing...