ACE Promotes Safe, Reliable and Future‑Ready Automation Solutions
Article from MHI Solutions Magazine
AUTOMATION, CONTROLS AND Electrification (ACE) members are the material handling industry’s leading suppliers of electrification and controlling devices.
ACE is a rebranding of the Electrification and Controls Manufacturers Association (ECMA), which originally focused on electrification and control systems for cranes. Since 2022, the industry group has expanded to include manufacturers and suppliers of such devices for a broader range of systems throughout logistics centers.
“The goal is to be recognized as the guiding authority on automation, control systems and electrified components within MHI, bringing together all the various experts to create learning content to educate the OEMs, system integrators and most importantly, the practitioners,” said Dan Barrera, ACE chair and head of warehouse automation, vertical markets for MHI member Bosch Rexroth.
ACE offers content about a variety of topics important to logistics managers, including how to improve automation systems; converging information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT); exploring new communication methods; sizing automation components appropriately; cybersecurity; and artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge level, Barrera said…
