Productivity Technologies Corp. manufactures automated industrial systems, machinery, equipment, custom electrical control panels and a provider of engineering services. The company sells its products principally to automobile and automotive parts manufacturers and appliance manufacturers. Other customers include manufacturers of garden and lawn equipment, office furniture, heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and aircraft. The company primarily operates in United States, and has...
Productivity Technologies Corp. manufactures automated industrial systems, machinery, equipment, custom electrical control panels and a provider of engineering services. The company sells its products principally to automobile and automotive parts manufacturers and appliance manufacturers. Other customers include manufacturers of garden and lawn equipment, office furniture, heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and aircraft. The company primarily operates in United States, and has targeted its sales efforts in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia.
Subsidiaries
The company's wholly owned subsidiaries include Atlas Technologies, Inc. (Atlas) and Westland Control Systems, Inc. (Westland).
Products
Atlas offers production critical, technology products based on proven designs and engineering, which are modular and may be used with existing systems, as well as with new systems. Virtually all of its products are manufactured on a made-to-order basis. Atlas personnel perform applications engineering, product design or customization, procurement, fabrication, machining, assembly, testing, shipping and installation of the products and systems it sells.
Quick die change equipment made by Atlas includes automated die carts, die tables and high rise automated storage-retrieval systems which are used to maneuver stamping press dies and molds weighing approximately 100 tons each. The Atlas-developed products allow die swapping to be accomplished in minutes as compared to hours if conventional equipment is used. Atlas storage-retrieval systems permit dies not in use to be stored in multiple level racks and readily accessible to die carts for die swapping. Atlas' equipment can be configured for use with either manually controlled or automated presses.
Transfer press automation equipment is sold by Atlas under the names Flex 2000, Flex 3000, and Flex 5000. Transfer presses use as many as ten dies within a single press to progressively form the component (typically including tasks, such as drawing or forming, trimming, piercing and flanging). Atlas began offering standard Transfer Press Cells as a systems integrator, including Atlas equipment and presses made by other manufacturers to more aggressively pursue the transfer press process market segment. Stacking and destacking automation equipment is used to handle the sheet metal in the initial stages of the stamping process. Stackers stack flat blanks cut from the coiled rolls, which are delivered to the manufacturer. Atlas also produces and sells precision steel pallets for handling the stacks of sheet metal so as to reduce handling damage and to eliminate the need for strapping the stack of sheets together.
Westland designs, manufactures and field installs custom electrical control panels primarily for use in production machinery and machine tools utilized in automotive, adhesive and sealant, food processing, and other industrial applications. The design and manufacture of control panels for machinery occasionally occurs in the later stages of the machinery design and construction process. Machinery must first be constructed, and then wired, where the wiring is conducted through the control panel.
Westland's products range from small, single door electrical panels to six door panels. The electrical control panels are used by customers to control the mechanical functions of machinery used in applying adhesives and sealants in automobile production, material handling equipment for metal forming for automobiles and appliances, the machining of cylinders for the manufacture of vehicle engines, and the fabrication of containers for food and juice packaging.
Customers
The company’s major customers include General Motors Corporation and The Ford Motor Company.
Competition
The primary competitors of Atlas include ABB Flexible Automation; Automatic Feed Company; Binar; Orchid International; Linear Transfer Systems; Gudel/Rapindex; Wayne Trail; HMS Products Co.; Schuler Automation Group; Strothmann GmbH; and Aisaku. Westland's major competitors in the Southeast Michigan region include Bentech; K-R Automation; Con-Syst-Int; JIC Electric; X-Bar Automation; and Control Technique, Incorporated.
History
The company, formerly Production Systems Acquisition Corporation, was incorporated in 1993. It changed its name to Productivity Technologies Corp. in 1996.