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Proven Across Industries

Every production environment makes its own demands on industrial motion control. The challenges in a glass container plant are nothing like those in a paper converting facility, and neither resembles what a custom robotic workcell requires on a general manufacturing floor. What stays constant is the engineering discipline required to solve them.

Applied Motion Systems has built and integrated motion control and automation systems across demanding industrial environments since 1995. The industries below represent our deepest areas of practice, where we have recurring relationships, proven systems in the field, and the kind of accumulated knowledge that only comes from solving the same class of problem many times over.

WHERE WE WORK

The Problem Changes. The Approach Doesn’t.

PAPER CONVERTING

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Paper converting environments demand wide production speed ranges, coordinated multi-axis tension zones, and production schedules that leave little tolerance for downtime. AMS has engineered rewinder drive system retrofits, parent roll core cleaners, and machine upgrades where operator safety, production throughput, and uptime are equally non-negotiable.

Glass Container

glass container

AMS has been providing state of the art motion control solutions for glass container production since 1996. Our IS Machine Drive Systems, Pusher System retrofits, Lehr Loaders, and Mold Cooling + SCADA solutions are installed across more than 100 production lines, some running in excess of 700 bottles per minute. 

General Automation

Since 1995 AMS has designed, built, and integrated automation systems across applications that range from a 122-axis carbon fiber layup machine to an undersea tidal generator array. What connects that range isn’t a product catalog, it’s a methodology.

engineered wood products

AMS has worked in every aspect of LVL layup lines, I-Joist manufacturing lines, and veneer processing operations since the mid-90s, upgrading controls, re-imagining how best to handle veneer, rebuilding aging mechanics, and delivering real throughput and reliability gains on lines where downtime is measured in tens of thousands of dollars per hour.

aerospace & DEFENSE

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AMS built a 35,000 sq ft facility expressly for aerospace & defense automation and tooling manufacturing, with crane capacity to 30 tons and CNC machining up to 6 ft x 6 ft x 20 ft. We build systems that meet the precision and documentation requirements these environments demand.

semiconductor

Semiconductor environments demand sub-micron precision and contamination-sensitive handling. AMS has engineered custom automation for these applications, where the margin between a working system and a scrapped part is measured in microns.

Common Questions About Our Industry Experience

A few things customers and engineers typically ask before starting a conversation with us.

No. These represent our deepest areas of practice with recurring relationships and proven systems in the field. If the motion control or automation challenge is complex, we’re interested in the conversation.

Yes. While our facility is in Vancouver, Washington, our work spans facilities across North America and internationally, particularly in glass container production.

Both. Our work spans new machine builds, drive conversions, and full production line modernization across all the industries we serve.

That’s a significant part of what we do.  Our work has spanned the realm of motion applications ranging from fighter jet ejection seat simulators to knife blade sharpening systems for Leatherman Tool to controlling a 140 ton stage that travels vertically 70 feet at 2 feet per second for Cirque du Soliel.

We integrate them. We treat the workcell as the engineering problem and the robot as one component of the solution.

Start a conversation. Describe your production environment and the problem you’re trying to solve. We’ll tell you honestly whether we’ve encountered it before and how we’d approach it.

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