BERLIN AND VANCOUVER —Daimler will outfit its hydrogen fleet with Canadian-made fuel cells through a joint-venture with Ford and Ballard Power Systems. The companies have created a subsidiary called the Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation (AFCC). The fuel cells will be manufactured at a facility in Burnaby, B.C

CALGARY —Progress Energy Resources Corp. has struck a binding deal worth nearly $1.1 billion to form a strategic partnership with the Malaysian national oil company to develop the Canadian company’s BC natural gas assets.

Intelligrated , a leading North American-owned automated material handling solutions provider has opened an Alvey Robotics lab at its St. Louis, Mo. engineering and manufacturing facility

In light of the recent tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th, the employees of Johnston Equipment, a national material handling company, have rasied funds totaling over $12,000 in support of the Canadian Red Cross’ Japanese Relief Fund 2011. [ Full Story ]

Swedish robotics initiative Robotdalen is inviting researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs with commercially valid robotics solutions to compete for the Robotdalen Innovation Award.

Keithley Instruments, Inc., a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled “Meeting the Electrical Measurement Demands of High Power, High Brightness LEDs” on Thursday, May… [ Full Story ]

May 24, 2011 – GarrettCom named Lee House as General Manager. In his new role, House is the senior executive in charge of all aspects of GarrettCom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belden, Inc

May 24, 2011 – The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PEC-3710 integrated I/O controller. Featuring an AMD LX800 500 MHz controller with 16-channel analog input, 4-channel analog output and 32-channel isolated digital input/output, the PEC-3710 is a standalone automation controller that not only greatly shortens customers’ development time but also offers rich networking interface for function extensions

Australian race-car engineering company Noonan Race Engineering (NRE) is using Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software to program its five-axis machining centers for the development and production of race-specification engines and specialized components.According to a release from Delcam, PowerMILL enables NRE to translate its designs into products that can be marketed and sold worldwide. “With PowerMILL, we have the ability to control the toolpaths to a very high degree, creating not only a proven performance product but also a stunning world-class finished result,” said Jamie Noonan, one of the founding partners at Noonan. “The porting strategies have also enabled us to bring another key area of our products in-house.”PowerMILL undertakes an automatic division of the port machining process between areas that can be reached using three-axis techniques, and those that require positional or continuous five-axis operation.

MISSISSAUGA: As part of its HR study update project, the Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council (CSCSC) is conducting surveys of employers, employees and education providers in the supply chain sector. The employer/employee survey is  available here .