KUKA Systems - Winning awards and big contracts

摘要

These are heady days for KUKA Systems. The German-based global systems integrator and line builder has been receiving major contracts from automakers almost monthly since last fall. The value of its 2011 orders rose 28% to 917-million Euro. The company has large installations pending or progressing on four continents. General Motors recently named KUKA Systems 2011 Global Supplier of the Year for Body Shop Welding Lines, primarily for upgrade projects carried out at three Opel plants in Europe. (Last year, Northrop Grumman named KUKA Systems its tooling supplier of the year for developing a highly automated manufacturing system for aircraft fuselages.)