Workplace Survey Puts Brenner-Fiedler in Region’s Upper Class

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (March 11, 2022) – In recognition of what it calls its “connected company culture,” Riverside-based Brenner-Fiedler has once again been recognized by its own employees as one of the Inland Empire’s Top Workplaces for 2021.

In business for nearly 75 years, Brenner-Fiedler supplies industrial automation and pneumatic systems that serve an ever-growing list of industries and applications throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

Top Workplaces is a national awards program based solely on feedback captured from an employee engagement survey. According to the program sponsor, “There are no subjective elements to the process, making Top Workplaces the most credible, authentic employer recognition program.”

Businesses recognized as Top Workplaces are determined by quantitative employee feedback as well as statements and demographic information collected by the survey.

“From the time my dad joined Brenner-Fiedler more than 50 years ago, we've worked hard to create an environment where every employee feels accepted, valued, and has a sense of belonging,” said Deborah Kloman-Lichter, Co-owner and CEO.

“The last couple of years have been especially challenging but despite everything the world has thrown at us, the team kept delivering outstanding service and exceptional value. Day after day after day. I couldn’t be prouder that their own feedback made us one of the Inland Empire’s Top Workplaces — again!”

The family-owned business prides itself on a passionate pursuit of excellence, where “team is everything” and employees are expected to be leaders in everything they do. It’s a culture that has built a small-but-mighty workforce with more than 300 years of combined service to Brenner-Fiedler.

With its 2021 Top Workplaces recognition, Brenner-Fiedler has now received the designation six times within the past eight years. Riverside’s Press-Enterprise newspaper recognized 33 Inland Empire companies and organizations as Top Workplaces for 2021.

To learn more about Brenner-Fiedler, visit www.brenner-fiedler.com and its LinkedIn page, and follow its social media channels @brennerfiedler on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

"An HD version of the Brenner-Fiedler Robot Holiday Video is available on YouTube and LinkedIn, along with their social media channels @brennerfiedler on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram."

Robot Orders Booming As North American Businesses Race to Automate

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Dec. 7, 2021) – Throughout North America, companies have been adding robots at a record pace, scrambling to adapt assembly lines while struggling to fill job openings for human workers.

For one Southern California business, news of the robot rush coincided with a wish to show off one of the leading-edge units it now offers businesses to help them operate more cost- effectively and competitively.

Riverside-based Brenner-Fiedler has been supplying industrial automation and pneumatic systems for nearly 75 years. More recently the firm started offering robots that can be finely tailored to a wide variety of business applications.

To demonstrate their capabilities in a clever way, the company chose a bright yellow, Santa-capped FANUC SR-12iA industrial SCARA robot. A Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm, one that mimics the hinge-like movement of a human arm. A robot ideal for high-speed, precision applications such as assembly, pick-and-place, testing, inspection and packaging.

Brenner-Fiedler combined the in-house knowhow of robotics engineer Andrew Pilarski and mechanical engineering intern Justin Salamat to program the machine to precisely apply line after line of royal icing-like caulking on a bright red cake created by sales support executive Christine Lanting.

Next, after a quick armature switch, a separate programming routine used a delicate amount of vacuum pressure to lift, carry and place a handful of peppermint candies and gingerbread men.

The end result? A sweet surprise set to merry music – Brenner-Fiedler’s swooshing logo rendered in “frosting” at the center of a festive cake decorated entirely by robot labor.

According to Pilarski, prepping the robot for the script’s multiple tasks required only a handful of hours across a few days, a testament to how reliable and versatile they are.

After Lanting dressed the “set” with festive yuletide props, it took just a few dozen takes to capture the robot’s entire decorating process, then a few weeks for Redlands, Calif.-based videoFP to whittle them into a jaunty 49 seconds.

An HD version of the Brenner-Fiedler Robot Holiday Video is available on YouTube and LinkedIn, along with their social media channels @brennerfiedler on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

According to one industry group, North American factories and other industrial users ordered 37 percent more robots in the first nine months of 2021 than during the same period in 2020, at a total cost of around $1.48 billion.

Some say the rise in robot orders is evidence of companies investing to keep up with surging demand against a backdrop of ongoing shortages. Other businesses are turning to automation for the first time after struggling to fill jobs during the pandemic.

In business since 1948, Brenner-Fiedler sees a bright future ahead, one in which more and more companies are considering not whether to automate but whether they can afford not to

We Help Businesses Improve Technology, Efficiency, Quality and Safety, While Reducing Waste, Cost and Risk

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Sept. 8, 2021) — Considering automation? Are you an OEM in need of builds? Consider Brenner-Fiedler. We supply automation and pneumatic solutions that combine innovation, affordability, and reliability.

Tough problems are no problem for our skilled engineers and technicians. In fact, we are the problem solvers! Consider us an extension of your team, helping your business improve technology, efficiency, quality, and safety, while reducing waste, cost, and risk.

Headquartered in Riverside, Calif., our team partners directly with yours to engineer cost-effective, value-add solutions that allow you to operate more efficiently and competitively.

We offer a full spectrum of automation and pneumatic systems for use in applications such as packaging, assembly, palletizing, material handling, OEM builds, and panels. And we ensure our sales team and product specialists stay current on the latest products, trends, and customer challenges.

Since 1948, we've served a diverse and ever-growing range of businesses in industries such as food and beverage, medical, consumer goods, energy, transportation, electronics, packaging, and many more.

And we can help yours. We are Brenner-Fiedler. This is what we do.

To learn more about how Brenner-Fiedler can help build the future of your business, call us at (800) 843-5558 or visit us online at www.brenner-fiedler.com.

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