Appointments/promotions: Kim Wanamaker joins W.A. Schmidt Inc. as general manager and vice president of sales and marketing... Paul Witt is appointed strategic sales manager for Omron Electronics LLC... MegaStar Systems names Paul Kimple as central regional manager, Matt Ventura as western regional manager and Brian Baker as director of government sales... MARC Global appoints Oliver Cooper as chief executive officer... Carlo Lonardi is promoted to vice president of sales at Harrington Hoists Inc.... Remstar appoints Tony Arsenault as northeast regional sales manager... SPX Dock Products hires Steve Jones as vice president of international sales in Asia and Australia and Diego Effio as sales manager for Latin America... John Bauer is named central regional sales manager at SATO America Inc.... Voxware hires Jackie Jordan as vice president of alliances and strategic accounts and appoints Richard Cialabrini as vice president of global sales... Jack Lehr is chosen to head up Genesys Systems, the system integration division of SJF Material Handling Inc.... Charles Rafferty is named vice president of sales at Optum... Rob Fink is hired as a technical operations manager for Forte Industries.

Alliances/construction: USCO Logistics forms an alliance with V3 Systems to use its software in a logistics solution suite for select customers... RedPrairie and Kurt Salmon Associates sign a strategic agreement to incorporate RedPrairie's labor productivity software into Kurt Salmon's performance improvement program... Rimrock Corp. acquires Robot Automation Systems Group from ABB Inc. and signs a partner agreement with ABB Inc. for the newly formed Rimrock Automation Inc.... SICK and VITRONIC form a joint partnership to combine VITRONIC's vision system solutions with SICK's Automatic Identification systems... Abraham Technical Services changes its name to AbeTech... Genesys Systems of SJF Material Handling Inc. signs an agreement with Intelligrated and Versa Conveyor Corp. to handle both product lines... Savi Technology and Matrics Inc. collaborate to integrate passive and active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags technologies... HHP and MCL Technologies partner to offer the full MCL-Collection product line on HHP's Dolphin mobile computers... FKI Logistex Alvey Systems opens an office in Scottsdale, Ariz. to serve the Southwest region.