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Top 10 Ways to De-Risk Automation

What to Do Before a Product Design is Locked Down Engineers know the frustration of designing a manufacturing process that is difficult to scale up or automate. Let’s say benchtop equipment was built to test an assembly process with equipment running at a slower rate to support manual loading, and the controller and servos were […]


Hang Tran, P.Eng., M.A. Sc., PMP

When is the Right Time to Involve a Turnkey Contract Manufacturer?

You cannot be an expert at everything. If you try, inevitably something will go off the rails preventing your organization from realizing their initial business objectives. Many OEMs/businesses have evolved out of the full lifecycle ownership mindset. Process engineering, forensic engineering, and reliability engineering are a few of the many consulting disciplines available to support […]


Jordi Brown

Are Pre-Engineered Automation and High-Speed Assembly Mutually Exclusive?

The Case for Pre-Engineered Automation Systems Over approximately the last 30 years, the evolution of automated systems implemented to enable advanced manufacturing has led to the proliferation of the pre-engineered automated work cell/system. In turn, this has enabled significant growth in the global deployment of automated systems throughout all facets of global manufacturing, where virtually […]


Hang Tran, P.Eng., M.A. Sc., PMP

How a Good Turnkey Contract Manufacturing Partner Impacts Your Business

Contract (or white label) manufacturers play a very important role when it comes to producing certain products. CMs offer technical expertise gained through years of experience in the field with respect to product design, repetitive equipment manufacturing (REM), system integration, and providing service that is highly agile and can quickly scale your business. Some of […]


ATS Life Sciences

3 Reasons Why Sourcing a Turnkey Contract Manufacturer Will Improve Your Bottom Line

You can’t be an expert at everything. For this reason, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) are constantly faced with meeting various product commercialization issues. Between streamlining supply chains, minimizing material handling, and consolidating vendor selections to remain competitive, there’s a lot that goes into improving your bottom line. OEMs base their value on customizing their product […]


Jordi Brown

Welcoming Mauricio Senties

I was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Texas. I moved to Boston to study Chemistry at Tufts University and not long after finishing, landed a role at Beckman Coulter. After a few years there, I took a role at Thermo Fisher Scientific where I spent almost the next 17 years of […]


Benefits of Project Management Involvement in Sales

Do your suppliers include project management expertise when preparing your proposal? Buying custom automation equipment can be a time-consuming activity that requires extensive planning for both cost and schedule. Often these plans are tied to business needs and impact decision-making for your company at a high level, so their accuracy is critical. Equally as critical […]


ATS Life Sciences

Do’s And Don’ts When Choosing An Automation Systems Provider

Congratulations! You have decided to automate your manufacturing processes and streamline the production of your product(s). To arrive at this point, you spent critical time and effort on justifying this investment decision. Maybe you needed a solution that would support additional production capacity to satisfy customer demand, or to launch a new product, or as […]


ATS Life Sciences

5 Strategic Considerations for Integrating Automation in Your Medical Manufacturing

It is undeniable that automation is a powerful tool in manufacturing that can help businesses increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality. It involves using various integrated technologies to automate tasks and processes that were previously done manually or by aging machinery, freeing up time and resources for more valuable activities. Given the planning and […]


Brandon Cole

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