Supporting Agile Scale Ups During COVID-19 Medical Supplies Shortage

With the COVID-19 pandemic creating shortages of crucial products and equipment, ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. has stepped up to assist medical device manufacturers in scaling up production of these critical devices. ATS is also working to enable manufacturers in other industries to quickly pivot to making products used in treating or diagnosing the disease. With more than 40 years in business, roughly 55 percent in life sciences, ATS has experience in manufacturing medical devices requiring the highest product quality.  “This is the world we live in—we are used to this,” said Andrew Hider, ATS Automation’s CEO, in an interview with MD+DI. “We are a global organization and we own many different companies under our umbrella,” he said, noting that in addition to life sciences, the company has experience in the nuclear and automotive spaces. “The machines, the process, and the technology—we can build the entire production line, whether it's a portion or the full assembly,” he said. Just this week, ATS announced that it received a $65 million order booking from Tessy Plastics to design, build, and deliver two automated manufacturing systems within the next four months. The program is expected to enable the production of 10 million units per month of critical components for point-of-care testing kits for...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Assembly and Automation Source Type: news