Automation 101: A Beginners Guide For Automotive Leak Detection
The automotive industry is a hotbed for leak testing applications, and demanding ones at that. In a manner of speaking, your vehicle is nothing more than a series of containers on wheels. The average vehicle has several dozen mechanical, fluid, thermal, electrical and hydraulic systems, all of which must be kept physically separate from each…
Adhesive Bonding vs. Ultrasonic Welding in Medical Device Assembly
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a tremendous amount of pressure on medical device manufacturers to design and build devices, like respirators, and products, like personal protective equipment (PPE), at a rapid pace. Automating medical device assemblies is one way to fast track production, but selecting the right manufacturing methods is an important part of the…
Injection Molding Solutions Case Study: Automation for Plastic Processors
Problem Wilbert Plastics Services, a North Carolina based injection molding company, had a great project that required an automated solution that could meet their customer’s growing demand. They needed an automated solution to meet and exceed their customer production requirements. Meeting the high-volume demand would require multiple turnkey machines to automate the process of inserting…
Automation 101: Hermetic Seal in Manufacturing
What is a hermetic seal, and how is it used in manufactured products? Simply, hermetic sealing is an advanced product-sealing method intended to hold back microscopic foreign materials from entering a container. Food and beverage containers, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, medical implants, electronic instruments, first-responder equipment…the list of products that use hermetic sealing goes on…
The Pandemic’s Effect on Manufacturing Labor Gap
A recent report commissioned by The Workforce Institute at UKG found that manufacturers are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic on solid footing, but that two-thirds are still struggling with the manufacturing labor gap. The report, “The Resilience of Manufacturing: Strengthening people operations and bridging the talent gap amid crisis,” surveyed more than 300 hiring decision-makers…
AMS a Finalist for Cincinnati Best Places to Work by Cincinnati Business Courier
The Best Places to Work competition, sponsored by the Cincinnati Business Courier, celebrates local companies that strive to keep employees happy, challenged and engaged. We are pleased to be finalists for the 2021 award! Creating a great work environment helps us retain top talent and is an essential part of being named among the best…
Automated Medical Device Manufacturing Benefits
Are You Missing Out on Automated Medical Device Manufacturing Benefits? When you hear the word “automation,” do you feel drawn in or pushed away? We find that automation can mean a wide variety of things to different people. To industrial manufacturers specifically, automation tends to either represent an opportunity to trade human inefficiencies for machine reliability,…
Case Study: Automated Ultrasonic Welding for Automotive Applications
Your average automobile contains about 30,000 individual components put together into approximately 1,800 separate assemblies, all of which are just as important as the next. Assemblies are typically manufactured by “part suppliers” on the open market competing for the business of major auto manufacturers. The vehicle manufacturers then buy up these parts and aggregate them into…
5 Ways Automated Leak Testing Saves Time
Your manufacturing business is challenged to keep up with increasing demand, and one of the largest areas of opportunity that you see is in your manual leak testing process. An investment in automated leak test equipment seems plausible, but how can you quantify the benefits and communicate that up the ladder well enough to gain…
Standardized Automation Quote Process Fast-Tracks Success
New projects can be exciting and stressful. Timelines, budgets and communication among internal and external parties are just some of the many factors that contribute to project success from the start. Understanding and implementing each of those aspects takes time, but the RFQ process should not. AMS has developed an automation quote process to make…
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