{"id":35219,"date":"2019-04-09T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa1.ats-global.com\/ats-acquires-alka-rails-manipulators-the-detroit-mexico-city-based-mechanical-engineering-company\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:06:34","slug":"ats-acquires-alka-rails-manipulators-the-detroit-mexico-city-based-mechanical-engineering-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/ats-acquires-alka-rails-manipulators-the-detroit-mexico-city-based-mechanical-engineering-company\/","title":{"rendered":"ATS Acquires ALKA Rails &#038; Manipulators the Detroit\/Mexico City based Mechanical Engineering Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Hot on the heels of our recent acquisition of <b>ASI Datamyte<\/b> (the <b>Visual Quality<\/b> and <b>Gauging Systems<\/b> company) in the UK, ATS have acquired <b>ALKA Rails and Manipulators<\/b> here in North America.This acquisition brings to ATS an expert Mechanical Engineering capability with the ability to undertake rapid 3D mechanical design assignments and turn out complete engineered solutions right across the <b>USA, Canada and Mexico<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHow does this fit into ATS as a whole?\u201d<\/i> I hear you say. Well it\u2019s all to do with Lean Production. Here in Detroit we found ourselves working alongside several companies all working toward delivering pieces of production lines aimed at improving productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Working individually, both ATS and ALKA have delivered many projects across the Automotive and Aerospace industries \u2013 achieving massive returns for our customers. But working together we found that we could accelerate those returns. The ALKA engineers have been quick to adopt the principle of <b>\u201csharing knowledge\u201d<\/b> which guides ATS in delivering our expert <b>Training<\/b> services, expert <b>Process Engineering<\/b>, expert <b>Control Systems Engineering<\/b> and expert <b>MES\/Factory IT Systems Engineering<\/b> and expert <b>Mechanical Engineering<\/b> also.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"success_stories_industry":[15744],"business_offerings":[15830],"page_categories":[15670],"knowledge_services":[],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-nl","success_stories_industry-not-industry-specific","business_offerings-others","page_categories-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218455,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions\/218455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"success_stories_industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_stories_industry?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"business_offerings","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/business_offerings?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"page_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_categories?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_services?post=35219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}