Digital Transformation Solutions and Services for the Automotive Industry

ATS offers a wide variety of digital transformation solutions across the automotive industry. This includes body shop, stamping, paint shop, trim and chassis, assembly lines, final inspection and component suppliers. We are experts at providing end-to-end quality, automation and MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) solutions fully integrated with your PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems.

We have over 30 years of automotive industry expertise, delivering thousands of digital transformation solutions across the globe. ATS is at home in the automotive shop floor and factory environment from local to global, from high volume to low volume, from OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) to tier suppliers.

ATS Delivers Semi-automated Production Line for a Car Components Manufacturer

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ATS Delivers Semi-automated Production Line for a Car Components Manufacturer
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ATS is one of the world’s leading industrial automation specialists
with global delivery capabilities for the automotive industry.

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Partnered with 7 of the top 10 global automotive companies

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30+ years of experience in automotive industry

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2000+ projects delivered with our automotive customers

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What do we do?

We transform automotive manufacturing processes through digital transformation. Our solutions for the automotive industry leverage our unique combination of expert consultancy, software products and support services. Our automotive experts have rich process and domain knowledge across the entire manufacturing value chain.

We combine our experience of control systems and manufacturing IT with robotics, predictive analytics and more to implement automation solutions across the assembly process. We enable defect-free delivery of automotive products by offering seamless inspection and quality management solutions that are fully integrated with your ERP (enterprise resource planning) and PLM systems.

  • MES/MOM and ERP integration
  • Best practice consultancy
  • System integration
  • Shop floor IT support

  • Variation Simulation Modeling Services
  • Key Product Characteristic Designation System (KCDS)
  • Product Validation Services
  • 3D digitization
  • Laser scan and CMM data integration

  • Shop floor data collection for attribute, variable and dimensional data (ATS Inspect, ATS CM4D)
  • Post process measurement solutions (ATS CM4D)
  • Defect inspection and error proofing systems (ATS Inspect)
  • Enterprise-wide quality data processing (ATS Inspect, ATS CM4D)
  • Gap and flushness measurement (ATS DoorIT)
  • Quality management (ATS Inspect, ATS CM4D)

  • Industrial Internet of Things (ATS Bus, Inductive Automation’s Ignition)
  • Manufacturing Execution Systems / Manufacturing Operations Management (MES/MOM) consultancy
  • Automation and controls
  • In-process measurement systems
  • System integration
  • Asset tracking and tracing
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How do we do it?

We leverage 35+ years of automotive experience in full lifecycle project implementation and support to maximize our customers’ return on investment (RoI). We engage with our customers across the spectrum from tactical projects with an execution span of a few weeks to multi-year strategic initiatives.

ATS provides local and global implementation support for both greenfield and brownfield projects and is a reliable partner for continued support, keeping the plant up and running 24/7.

  • Integrating manufacturing systems with supply chain
  • Faster roll-out of solutions across multiple plants and throughout the supply chain

  • Shop-floor integration with ERP systems to optimize the manufacturing process cycle time
  • Combining operational and automotive industry knowledge with awareness of emerging technologies and systems

  • Digital transformation and modernization solutions
  • Robotic programming and proving

  • Ensuring proper vehicle content and functional test verifications
  • Inspections throughout the vehicle manufacturing plants various stations from BIW to final delivery

  • Product validation and verification of PLM design data and dimensional data
  • Extraction of dimensional data from all sources (PLC, CMM, Scanners, Gap & Flush gauges, etc.) to ensure process, manufacturing and build engineers can work in sync for predictive-fit from metrology area through to the final assembly

  • Unrivalled experience in offering independent design and deployment advice
  • Smart Digital Transformation
  • Integration with Industrial Internet of Things

  • Offsite technical support – on call and virtual log-ins
  • On-site support and troubleshooting

Your Benefits as a Customer

Reduced warranty
claims

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First-time-right
build 

Reduced cost of
quality

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Accelerated time to market and New Product
Introduction (NPI)

Maximized production
uptime

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Support in defining effective Digital
Transformation vision

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Success Stories

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Product Quality Increased at
Toyota by Implementing
ATS Inspect

Find out how Toyota reduced visual defects by 75% by implementing ATS Inspect.
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Paperless Quality Inspection at Electric Car Manufacturer

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Paperless Quality Inspection at
Electric Car
Manufacturer

Instead of recording quality issues on paper they now record them…
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ATS Delivers Semi-automated Production Line for a Car Components
Manufacturer

Upgrade automation system for customer’s production line The plant produced 70…
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ATS Enables a Leading Electric Car Manufacturer to Address Accelerated Production Demand

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ATS Enables a Leading Electric Car Manufacturer to Address Accelerated Production Demand

Monitor the condition of general assembly sublines for downtime analysis…
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Major Automotive Manufacturer from UK Chooses ATS Global to Improve Quality Assurance of Vehicles

Implement 100% quality assurance and traceability at all 3 European plants Pr…
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Six Sigma Project Aided by ATS Inspect at Navistar

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Six Sigma Project Aided by
ATS Inspect at
Navistar

Navistar, one of the world’s leading heavy truck manufacturers, was looking for …
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Automotive OEM Chooses ATS for SMED Consultancy

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Automotive OEM Chooses
ATS for SMED
Consultancy

Improve die changeover performance Standardized procedures for a cont…
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ATS Integrates Collaborative Robots in Automotive Components Manufacturer

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ATS Integrates Collaborative Robots in Automotive Components
Manufacturer

Automate material handling within existing thermocouple production cell…
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ATS Integrates Station for Pressing Magnet Control at a Car Component Manufacturer

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ATS Integrates Station for Pressing Magnet Control at a Car Component Manufacturer

Implementation of pressing magnet control station into the existing line. Th…
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Exide Chooses ATS for Shop-floor IT Systems at All European Battery
Plants

Improve traceability, efficiency and quality across the entire manufact…
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Ford Motor Company chooses ATS Global for Quality System for Door
Closure

Improve the visibility of the car door closure quality management Enh…
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Synchronizing Production at an Electric Car Manufacturer

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Synchronizing Production at an Electric Car Manufacturer
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The customer had a high-mix production line where each vehicle on the production…
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Shopfloor Equipment Integration at a New Automotive Plant in Mexico

Required a quick and easy connection between shopfloor equipment…
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Automotive Manufacturer Can Expect the Unexpected with APS Solution

Replace self-made and difficult to maintain applications with Opcenter APS…
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