Adaptive Technology Solutions

Adaptive Technology Solutions (ATS) is the leading manufacturing CAD/CAM/CAE and Shop Floor Monitoring solutions provider with manufacturing companies in the Midwest and Southeast United States. We provide consulting services, software, and support to automate mechanical industrial manufacturing companies.

At ATS, we firmly believe that our long-term success depends on the success of our customers, not just in the amount of software we sell. Our success has made us one of the top Edgecam and Predator Partners for Manufacturing in the United States. We encourage you to learn more by contacting us today. Contact ATS at 877-287-2261 or at Info@ATScnc.com

The Importance of Automation?

One of the questions we need to answer is: why do we need automation? Automation helps us in making our lives more convenient by making our everyday tasks easier.

Automation in our daily lives has changed the way we live. Can you remember the last time you sent mail through normal postal service to your family or friends?  With today's technology and automation, we can send and receive instant messages, emails and even pictures using different types of electronic devices. Before it would take days or even weeks to send and receive mail through the postal system, but now with just a click of a button, you can instantly send and receive messages to your friends or family.

Automation has only one purpose and that is to make our lives more convenient and efficient. Automation helps us in making our daily tasks easier. For an instance, instead of doing a certain task all by ourselves, the automated machines do it for us.

One of my favorite examples is the automated starting system on my car. When the weather is cold I can have my car started with a push of a button from inside my warm home or office and it will be warm when I get in it.

In manufacturing, automation is very important. Automation is used to speed up the process of production and allow for more consistent and efficient production. Manufacturing companies of all sizes look for ways to automate their production. We are recovering from a very poor economy where companies had to reduce people and processes to keep the doors open. Manufacturing companies that were able to ride out the economic storm are working with fewer people in their shops that are doing much more.

While we see automation and new technology being used all around us many manufacturing companies, small and large, have not used automation and new technology in one of the most important areas of their business, programming for their CNC machines. Companies are now able to automate and reduce a significant amount of time in their CNC programming with either fewer people or allowing companies to bring back more work with the same amount of people. It has been amazing to me to hear plant managers say we track manufacturing cost but the programming area is something we can't control and is just a built in cost and bottle neck. I have found very few Owners and CEO's of manufacturing businesses that have made an investment in their companies say  it's just a cost we can't control. We have helped many companies save money and jobs by bringing automation and consistency to their business.

Remember, in order for us to be better both personally and in our businesses we should always be open to the latest technology such as automation. 

Please allow us the opportunity to speak to you about how you can automate your CNC programming and not allow it to just be a bottle neck and cost you continually overlook.