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Obama’s Job Council will be at Seegrid for a Manufacturing Listening and Action Session roundtable on October 11, 2011. This session will provide local executives the opportunity to share their views and network with those advising the president. The roundtable session will be held at Seegrid’s headquarters located at 216 Park West Dr., in Pittsburgh, PA.

"Too often automation is quantified in metrics that miss the obvious," according to Aaron Lamb, inventor of Lift'n Buddy (http://www.liftnbuddy.com). "Employees repeatedly move products from a delivery truck to a hand truck or stack. Product can be moved, and stacked to shoulder height and may need to be lowered to ground level. These lifting tasks can be truncated by time and labor required. This simple automation solution, an electric hand truck, also significantly decreases the risk of injury," noted Lamb.

Dave Noble joined Seegrid Vision-Guided Robotic Trucks as Director of Strategic Marketing and noted, “Seegrid's leadership and innovation in the vision-guided, robotic industrial vehicle market is what drew me to the organization…"Seegrid’s robotic product offerings are going to revolutionize warehouse, distribution and manufacturing environments."

Seegrid the leading robotics developer recently announced its partnership with Cisco-Eagle, Inc., a materials handling solutions provider. Seegrid and Cisco-Eagle are excited to bring robotic industrial truck solutions to Cisco-Eagle customers. “In Cisco-Eagle’s continued drive toward delivering justifiable automation concepts for its customers, we are proud to have established a relationship with Seegrid. Seegrid provides automated robotic industrial trucks which we will incorporate into our customer’s operations to optimize workflow processes, increasing productivity and reducing the costs our customers experience on a per unit basis through their manufacturing and distribution processes,” said Steve Strifler, President and CEO of Cisco Eagle.

U.S. Department of Labor, Fact Sheet No. OSHA 89-09 states that back injuries are the nation’s number one workplace safety problem. The paper concludes that preventing back injuries is a major workplace safety challenge. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one million workers suffer back injuries each year, and back injuries account for one of every five workplace injuries or illnesses. Further, one-fourth of all compensation indemnity claims involve back injuries, costing industry billions of dollars on top of the pain and suffering borne by employees.

Seegrid Vision-Guided Pallet Trucks are the leader in Robotic Industrial Trucks. The company is completing the second expansion within two years. In late July, Seegrid began renovating a 10,000-square-foot facility, conveniently connected to the current 30,000-square-foot location in RIDC Park West. The expansion of the Pittsburgh operations will allow the firm to increase office and operations spaces. Seegrid’s rapid growth includes doubling the employee base in the past two years, plans to continue to grow in the region, and bringing new jobs to Pittsburgh. The completed expanded facility will be operational by the end of this month, October 2011, and will accommodate at least forty team members.

The National Safety Council (NSC) reports that a disabling injury occurs every 1.3 seconds in the U.S. (more than 63,000 every day), and the Social Security Administration predicts that 3 out of 10 workers entering the workforce today will acquire some type of disability before they retire. Prevention from these injuries is critical for all businesses and their employees.

Layoffs have swept through all industries including manufacturing, service, and retail, along with construction, office services and trade industries. The Labor Department continues to report weakness in the labor market. Recent data shows that new workers' compensation claims increase during recessionary periods even though number of employee decrease and the total work hours decline. The cost per claim and the total system costs also increase. Studies find that lay-offs and changes of employment increase the duration of temporary total disability, higher permanent partial disability, and increased claims for occupational disease or cumulative injuries

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Seegrid, a leading vision-guided robotic industrial truck manufacturer, recently announced that Dave Noble joined the organization as Director of Strategic Marketing.

Vision-Guided Pallet Trucks change the automation paradigm according to manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in the in current issue of AutomationMedia.com. Cutler profiles how Seegrid is taking a unique role in these technologies.

Workforce health and safety is paramount and the data clearly shows that repetitive lifting, lowering, and moving injuries costs North American businesses millions of dollars each year. Lift'n Buddy automates those tasks, significantly reducing the potential for injuries and costly downtime.

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Seegrid, the leader in Robotic Industrial Trucks, recently announced the recent hire of Michael Brueggman as the Director of Quality. Brueggman is responsible for overseeing the continuous improvement of Seegrid's quality policies, programs and initiatives. Seegrid is committed to best practices in a lean manufacturing environment.

According to Aaron Lamb, inventor of Lift’n Buddy, “Employees repeatedly move products from a delivery truck to a hand truck or stack. Product to be moved can be stacked to shoulder height and may need to be lowered to ground level. These lifting tasks pose an increased risk of pain and injury and should be considered hazardous unless appropriate solutions are implemented.”

Founded in 2003, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seegrid Corp. brings robotic vision-guided technology to the material handling industry. With more than thirty years of innovation and research by the leading robotic scientists, engineers, programmers and logistics practitioners worldwide, Seegrid’s exclusive Robotic Industrial Trucks are revolutionizing the movement of materials in manufacturing and distribution environments. Seegrid’s technology transforms industrial vehicles into un-manned, automated pallet trucks and tow tractors that operate without the need for wire, tape, laser or other costly automated guided vehicle (AGV) guidance systems. Seegrid offers solutions that optimize workflow processes by increasing productivity and reducing costs, creating economic and operational advantages. Scott Friedman, Co-Founder and CEO of Seegrid, started the company with a clear mission: taking the driver off a forklift would be safer and save money. Seegrid is now poised as a leader in the $38 billion forklift market.

Modern Materials Handling staff recently discussed the trend in automating lift trucks. Raymond ready lift trucks can operate as automatic guided vehicles. Raymond will introduce an automated lift truck incorporating a camera-based navigation system from Seegrid in early 2012. The justification for automation is simple: Labor is expensive.

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Workforce health and safety is paramount and the data clearly shows that repetitive lifting, lowering, and moving injuries costs North American businesses millions of dollars each year. Lift'n Buddy automates those tasks, significantly reducing the potential for injuries and costly downtime.

Seegrid Corp. experts including Scott Friedman, CEO, David Noble, Director of Strategic Marketing, and Laura Litwin, Applications Engineer presented as a central element of the New Applications for Industrial Robotics, part of the Robotics Trends Virtual Summit Series. The Robotics Summit Virtual Conference Series included commercial robotics business leaders, technology developers, academics, software and hardware developers, investors and business professionals from Global 2000 businesses with an unprecedented online experience. The virtual conference offered attendees a full day of dynamic keynote presentations by robotics thought leaders, in-depth conference sessions delivered in two tracks, online discussions, networking opportunities and a full, virtual exposition floor filled with the very latest robotics and intelligent systems technology from around the world.

Sometimes it has been called the Hand Truck of the Future or an Electric Hand Truck. Lift’n Buddy, the leader in this segment, has had their award-winning product called an aluminum Hand Truck, Electric Dollies, Multifunctional Electric Hand Truck, Hand Truck Dollies, and Mobile Hand Trucks.

Workforce health and safety is paramount and the data clearly shows that repetitive lifting, lowering, and moving injuries costs North American businesses millions of dollars each year. Lift'n Buddy automates those tasks, significantly reducing the potential for injuries and costly downtime.

Robotic industrial vehicles are, according to the insurance companies, ten times as safe as human-operated vehicles. In addition to reducing costs, improving safety is another reason that this industry is becoming increasingly interested in robotics.

Seegrid, the leader in Robotic Industrial Trucks, recently announced the second expansion within two years. In late July, Seegrid began renovating a 10,000-square-foot facility, conveniently connected to the current 30,000-square-foot location in RIDC Park West. The expansion of the Pittsburgh operations will allow the firm to increase office and operations spaces. Seegrid’s rapid growth includes doubling the employee base in the past two years, plans to continue to grow in the region, and bringing new jobs to Pittsburgh. The completed expanded facility will be operational by October 2011 and will accommodate at least forty team members.