ATS AUTOMATION TOOLING SYSTEMS MUNICH GMBH & CO. KG

Industrial Automation Systems

ATS serves the European market from four manufacturing plants highly specialized in Industrial Automation Systems. ATS delivers innovative turnkey solutions that save money and add significant value in diverse, rapidly growing and demanding market areas. The ATS organization responds to our customers' global business needs with full service capabilities, training and assistance. The ATS workforce in Europe has years of experience in handling the specific requirements of your products and your manufacturing processes. 

• Medical
• Consumer
• Health Care
• Telecom
• Electronics
• Electromechanical
• Micromechanics
• Automotive

ATS Standard Solutions

ATS continuously gains market share by increasing the user-friendliness of turnkey customized systems through the integration of the newest automation technologies and through the development of unique and highly flexible ATS automation technologies.

Turnkey Assembly Systems

ATS has over 25 years experience and a strong reputation in various industrial areas:

• Lean manufacturing systems
• Robot cells, semi-automated and fully automated lines
• Expertise in ergonomics
• Capacity to provide assistance in product design for assembly, production methodology and organization of product flow.
• Production and Quality Management Systems
• The capacity to take global responsibility for your projects
• The guarantee of the success and of the profitability of your programs of investment.
• ISO 9001 qualification
• Consulting Services

Winding Technologies

Coil Winding and Finishing Systems

Innovative turnkey solutions in:

• Standard coil winding and finishing systems
• Inline and standalone winding machines (2-24 Spindles)
• Inline operations:
  - Pin forming and insertion
  - Taping, fluxing, soldering and welding
  - Quality check devices
  - Product assembly
• Flexible Windows® based control systems (MACS)
• ATS' manufacturing experience and broad knowledge allows us to help our customers design practical, cost-effective products to further improve system performance and reduce costs.
• ATS has the capability and resources to deliver total coil-winding solutions that have been proven by ATS customers throughout the world.

Armature & Stator Winding Systems:

• Design and manufacturing of standalone machines and complete winding & assembly lines for armatures, stators and electronic motors.
• Sub-contract assemblies for customers in all kinds of industries.
• Fully integrated management systems for control of production lines and product quality.
• Hand-in-hand assistance to our customers for the development and industrialization of new products, in order to achieve the best technical and economical results.

Pharmaceutical Automation Solutions

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.

Automation Technology Products

FlexsysPAK™ Packaging Solutions

A revolutionary packaging system platform that redefines line change flexibility and efficiency, the new FlexsysPAK™ system boosts overall uptime and packaging productivity, while incorporating designs to improve overall equipment efficiency.

Continuous & Indexed Motion on One Platform

Packaging operations from blister, form, fill and seal to cartoning and case packing can be configured around FlexsysPAK™. The FlexsysPAK™ solution is ideally suited for a wide variety of tasks, from assembly and dispense, to kitting and packaging. In fact, the systems inherent ability to synchronize pallet speed to either continuous or indexing motion greatly enhances its flexibility and the number and type of applications which can be configured around the system.

A Reconfigurable, Modular Solution for Packaging

Unlike conventional chain or belt-driven conveyor systems, FlexsysPAK™ is based on the proven Supertrak™ pallet conveyor, a modular and reconfigurable system platform developed by ATS. With Supertrak™, work in process and accumulators are optimized, continuous and indexed operations can run simultaneously on a single system platform and ultimately, the system achieves much higher overall equipment efficiencies.

Supertrak™ Pallet Conveyor

Assembly rates of 120 parts per minute. Multiple part programs on the same line. Finally, automation that's as fast as it is flexible. An unprecedented breakthrough in high-speed pallet-based conveyance, ATS Supertrak™ delivers entirely new levels of automation system productivity, and pays for itself in as little as 12 months.

Individually controllable pallets are capable of speeds up to 2 m/s (78in/sec) with stop repeatability of ±0.051 mm (±0.002 in).

Unique Trackmaster™ software makes Supertrak™ totally reprogrammable "on the fly" for unmatched manufacturing flexibility.

Supertrak™ is extremely clean, operates at noise levels of only 70 dB and occupies a fraction of the size of conventional conveyor-based systems.

Benefits & Features

True "power & free"
Fully programmable, independent precise control of pallet direction, acceleration, speed and position at any point around the system eliminates hard stops and pallet-to-pallet contact, reducing shock loads to parts being assembled, and facilitating auto-cueing at work stations. Built-in pallet ID eliminates the need for external RF or mechanical pallet tags and enables the supervisory network to know where the pallet is in real time.

Easy to spec, reusable
Supertrak™'s simple modular design with no sensors, actuators or mechanical drives makes reconfiguring for new applications a reality. Fully integrated modules include all servodrives and controls and are extendable to over 40 meters. Using Supertrak™'s innovative Trackmaster control software, the system can be reprogrammed "on the fly", and because there are no lift & locates and less auxiliary equipment than conventional systems, retooling is greatly simplified.

Reduced materials inventory
Fast, easy reprogrammability with the ability to handle various pallet sizes allows for multiple programs on one line, facilitating shorter build-on-demand runs and the production of families of components with varying geometries.

Fast cycle times
Integrated x-axis operation eliminates the need for lift & locate, lift & transfer and auxiliary pick & place devices reducing cycle times to an absolute minimum. Pallet positioning is highly accurate for assembly processes such as screwdriving and liquid dispense.

Faster index times
Unloaded pallets can move independently between process stations at full acceleration and velocity.

More tooling options
Cantilever pallet design allows full multi-sided access to pallets and fixtures. Tooling can be placed both above and below pallets, enabling on-pallet assembly without the need for transfer devices.

Greater uptime: Few moving parts to wear and maintain.

Extremely clean & quiet
With few moving parts, the risk of contamination common with conventional belt- and chain-type conveyors is eliminated. Supertrak™ is extremely clean and operates at low noise levels of <70 dB.

Compact footprint: A fraction of the size of conventional conveyor-based systems.

Long service life: Urethane rollers on stainless steel tracks keep system clean and minimize wear for long life.