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The brand new 5,000-sq.-ft. Beckhoff workplace in Alpharetta, Ga. | Supply: Beckhoff USA
Beckhoff Automation LLC final week opened a brand new regional workplace within the larger Atlanta space. The ability spans greater than 5,000 sq. ft. (464.5 sq. m), and the corporate stated it should enhance its gross sales, assist, and coaching capabilities.
Beckhoff additionally plans to make use of the power for buyer conferences, seminars, and different occasions. The firm‘s new facility incorporates a coaching room to maintain prospects and workers updated on the newest advances in automation software program, networking, and movement management.
To assist particular initiatives and proof-of-concept validation for purchasers, Beckhoff’s new workplace additionally has a analysis and improvement room stocked with applied sciences that its engineers can use to collaborate with specialists throughout industries.
“The brand new Atlanta workplace has already turn into the house base for our Georgia-based group of gross sales and software engineers and the principle hub for our Southeast Area,” said Buck Tanner, enterprise improvement supervisor at Beckhoff USA.
“Beckhoff continues to expertise vital market share development throughout industries in Georgia and surrounding states, with many purchasers who’re excited to redefine what’s attainable by way of adaptive automation applied sciences like XTS and XPlanar,” he added. “With the brand new facility in Alpharetta, we’re not solely creating alternatives for our group to collaborate and share data, however we’re additionally demonstrating a agency dedication to our prospects and their success.”
Beckoff joins rising robotics hub in Georgia
Whereas Boston, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh will be the best-known robotics hubs within the U.S., Atlanta is residence to a rising robotics ecosystem. Beckhoff’s new workplace in Alpharetta, Ga., is lower than an hour’s drive from Atlanta. The corporate stated this location will assist it to proceed rising its buyer and market share throughout the Southeast U.S.
Whereas Georgia has lengthy hosted Fortune 500 corporations equivalent to UPS, House Depot, Delta, and Georgia Pacific, it has solely not too long ago began rising as a hub for robotics innovation within the U.S. This shouldn’t come as a shock as a result of Atlanta is residence to 4 out of the highest six warehouse automation suppliers, and it stated is the one U.S. metropolis within the international high 10 for logistics automation.
As well as, established robotics corporations like Intuitive Surgical, Dematic, Exotec, Fortna, and Mujin have amenities within the state. RoboGeorgia not too long ago established itself as a nonprofit group that goals to place Georgia as a middle for expertise innovation, workforce improvement, and robotics startups.
Alpharetta is residence to greater than 600 tech corporations, which make use of a big proportion of the realm’s residents. The town additionally maintains a robust expertise pool of latest graduates of the realm’s high universities.
Along with the growth in Atlanta, Beckhoff has opened new or relocated U.S. amenities in 2024 in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Austin, Texas. Together with its U.S. headquarters within the Minneapolis space, Beckhoff maintains quite a few regional workplaces in key metropolitan areas throughout the U.S.
