A world leader in factory automation solutions, with more than 10,000 automation projects completed over 25 years; ATS is a strategic partner to the world’s foremost manufacturers – in markets as diverse as automotive, computer electronics and healthcare. Working from 26 global locations, ATS assumes whole project responsibility to lower costs, improve quality and speed time to market – providing a competitive edge through excellence in automated manufacturing.
Automation Solutions
More than just a system integrator, ATS applies industry leading technical resources, a vast knowledge-base and an unmatched track record for innovation, to design, build and integrate total end-to-end factory automation systems with the highest productivity possible at the lowest cost per part.
Automation Technology Products
Going beyond the limits of conventional thinking, ATS constantly invests in the development of proprietary 21st century technologies and standard products that deliver faster cycle times, higher yields, greater reliability, easier operation and maintenance, and ultimately, lower integration and manufacturing costs.
Advanced Manufacturing
Applying production expertise and the right combination of skilled, semi-skilled and general labor, ATS provides cost effective equipment build programs for OEMs. Leveraging our assembly and automation know-how, ATS also provides volume manufacturing of precision components and assemblies in facilities around the globe.
Consulting Services
For over two decades, having the industry’s most comprehensive automation engineering resources has enabled ATS to provide “value-added” early in the development cycle. Today these services are available independently from ATS' other offerings, so any company can benefit from this extensive planning, design, and regulatory compliance expertise.
ATS: Your Single Source GMP Partner
Higher equipment utilization rates. Faster time to market. More productive use of your staff and resources. 100% quality verification for every product you manufacture. Faster payback on your equipment investment. These are just some of the benefits possible when you source your manufacturing equipment with ATS. ATS is a lab, pilot-scale and production-scale automation partner whose breadth of capabilities and regulatory know-how ensure we can provide a higher level of accountability for your pharmaceutical equipment purchasing - helping you get more out of your automation investment. Our experience designing, building and integrating more than 10,000 automation systems around the world enables ATS to take on broader roles and responsibilities than a conventional equipment builder. Involving ATS early in every stage of planning, design, and engineering from Proof of Principle to Prototyping to Validation, can yield significant results for our customers, including:
- reduced third-party multiple supplier research and qualification cost
- reduced risk and reduced change order costs
- elimination of “islands of operation” on your plant floor
- Standard controls “look and functionality” across the plant floor
- easier and faster FDA, GAMP, CFR and CE compliance
- faster Qualification and faster startup
Packaging & Line Integration
Bridging the gaps between each manufacturing process on your plant floor, ATS integrates advanced material handling technology between each custom-built and 3rd party equipment module. The end result? Seamless end-to-end automation solutions for these applications:
- Form-Fill-Seal
- Package-Inspect-Case Pack
- Liquid/Solid-Dose Dispense and Pack
- Drug Delivery Assembly-Inspect-Pack
- Label-Inspect-Carton-Case Pack
ATS: Automated Vision Inspection
Advanced vision solutions from ATS enable pharmaceutical manufacturers to reconcile both competitive and regulatory concerns – the need for greater productivity and the need for tighter fault detection and quality assurance. ATS vision solutions provide customers with a reliable, high-speed, single-pass alternative to conventional manual inspection processes. With higher detection accuracies and throughput rates up to 400 units per minute, ATS vision solutions can help pharmaceutical, companies improve productivity and factory output, while at the same time reduce risk and provide assurance that every product released to market meets the intended specification. ATS vision technology surpasses the capabilities of the human visual range, to offer new possibilities for inspection and quality control, such as spotting contaminants in a lyo cake, or spotting product discoloration.
In addition, ATS vision solutions utilize state-of-the-art vision lighting, cameras and our own open-architecture software, and have lower false reject rates than competing automated vision solutions. Advanced Windows™-based control features such as real-time tracking and fault trending for process analysis ensure that the manufacturing process is entirely controlled and traceable at all times.
ATS: Barriered Automation Solutions
To minimize contamination risk and improve productivity in clinical, pilot-scale and production-scale manufacturing, ATS offers semi-automated and fully automated robotic isolators compatible with aseptic environments. ATS applies industry-leading expertise in robotics and material handling to build efficient single-pass aseptic processing systems that can reduce batch-to-batch variation, improve yields and in the case of clinical volumes, provide an easier way to scale up to larger-scale production when required. With the technical expertise to integrate range of third-party control hardware and software - from Rockwell, Beckoff, and Siemens to name a few – ATS provides intuitive easy-to-operate control solutions with complete repor ting and archiving capabilities. Automatic fault recovery and client SCADA compatibility for network control make our solutions a powerful addition to your clean-room operation.
