Appointments/promotions: Frank Rossi joins Intelligrated as director of the Chicago regional office... Mike Kern is promoted to corporate vice president of material handling products marketing and sales at Cascade Corp.... Kom International appoints Alan Taliaferro to president and chief executive officer... RedPrairie appoints Michael Dempsey as its industry strategy leader and Jerry Rau as a strategic acquisitions leader... FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions appoints two new regional sales managers: Michael Cleary for the western sales region and David Mickelsen for the south central sales region... The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) announces its 2004 executive committee: Glen Long, president/chief executive officer of Inex Vision Systems, as chairman; Robert Risley, president of Materials Handling Systems Inc., as vice chairman; Rocky Marquis, president of MARQ Packaging Systems Inc., as past chairman; and Charles Yuska, president of PMMI, as president... PMMI also adds four members to its board of directors: Wilhelm Bronander III, president of Scandia Packaging Machinery Co.; Ronald Downing, vice president of marketing/sales for George Gordon Associates Inc.; Richard Schneider, president of Schneider Packaging Equipment Co.; and Robert Storms, director of marketing/sales for Moen Industries... James Owens is named chairman and chief executive officer of Caterpillar Inc.... AIM Inc. elects four new members to its Technical Symbology Committee: John Kessler, Paxar Corp., Andy Longacre, HHP, Heinrich Oehlmann, EuroData Council, Yuji Tsujimoto, TD Scan.