Custom Factory Automation Equipment:
Prototype Design & Build to Volume Manufacturing
If you need to automate challenging manufacturing processes or rapidly scale up your factory with equipment that doesn’t exist today, consider partnering with Owens Design.
Owens Design has successfully designed and built over 2,500 custom manufacturing systems that automate production for high-tech manufacturers around the world. In addition to meeting your yield, productivity, safety, cycle time, and cost targets, Owens Design also ensures the highest confidentiality of your intellectual property.
Custom factory automation services from Owens Design include:
- “Proof-of-process” benchtop tools to turnkey, high volume, and fully automated manufacturing equipment
- Analysis of continuous flow through multiple process modules with line balancing
- Quality assurance, verification and validation support
- Volume manufacturing to match your scaling needs
- Installation, service and spare parts support
- Continuous improvement to support evolving factory requirements
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Minimizing Project Risk
Owens Design has never failed to deliver on designing and building custom equipment since our founding in 1983. This is achieved by:
- An engineering team that averages 15+ years of experience with over 45 successful projects per engineer
- A proven development process that reduce risks and optimizes tradeoffs
- A commitment to doing what we say we will do
- A focus on finding the best solution for you, even if it is not Owens Design
Phased Process
Owens Designs applies a highly refined phased process to identify and minimize risks and optimize tradeoffs:Phase 0:
Mutual Qualification
Phase 0:
Mutual Qualification
Evaluate technical and business alignment on both sides prior to launching a project. If alignment isn’t right, we often help our prospective clients find a better fit.
Phase 1:
Requirements
Phase 1:
Requirements
align on function, timeline and cost with proof of concept for high-risk areas (if needed).
Phase 2:
Design & Build
Phase 2:
Design & Build
Completion of your production-ready prototype system.
Phase 3:
Volume Production
Phase 3:
Volume Production
Repeat builds of the system, with continuous improvement over time.
Applications
Our extensive experience in custom manufacturing equipment and automation design and build includes:
- Precision and high-speed parts align, feed, and assembly equipment
- Inspection, metrology, sort, bin, and test systems
- Web conversion process equipment
- Precision dispensing of high and low viscosity fluids
- Laser-based systems for machining and processing
- Standards compliance
- Controlled environments:
- Temperature, vacuum, humidity, O2, B-field, light tight
- ISO Class 1, ISO 2 with mechanisms
- Vibration and acoustic noise Isolation
- Complex process integration
- Complex custom mechanisms
