GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc.
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General Electric Fanuc, a joint partnership between FANUC LTD. of Japan and General Electric, is a business unit of General Electric Industrial Systems. GE Fanuc is headquartered north of Charlottesville, Virginia on Rt. 29 a few miles north of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. GE Fanuc designs, manufactures, tests and supplies industrial control and automation products including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), relay modules, and development software for ladder logic. Proficy Machine Edition is one of their flagship industry software products
PLCs are widely used in factories and plants to coordinate the movement and activity of components in an assembly line with information taken from various sensors. PLCs also see use in controlling the movement of large structures such as sports arenas with moveable roofs.
GE Fanuc is generally considered to be a third-place player in the global PLC market, the top two being Allen-Bradley (now a brand of Rockwell Automation) and Siemens AG.
GE Fanuc's Automation business is parallelled by operations in the Embedded Computing industry, where GE Fanuc operates as GE Fanuc Embedded Systems. Built largely through acquisition since 2001, this business unit of GE Fanuc is a top 5 player in the Embedded Computing Industry.
