Our robust project management goes beyond the standard steps you may be familiar with – system design, procurement, build, debug, factory acceptance testing and customer sign off.
Our process also ensures three key foundational goals are achieved:
Industry-Leading Automation Expertise
Our Expertise
IDS brands have industry-leading automation expertise. We have over four decades of experience building hundreds of automated pad printing, hot stamp and heat transfer systems ranging from simple semi-automated options to highly complex full automations.
Our robust project management, investment in cutting edge technology and considerable market-specific expertise allow us to provide automations tailor-made for optimal performance on your unique application.
Benefits
Automating a product decoration systems provides opportunities for:
Increased
- Output/productivity
- Lines speeds
- Quality
- Safety
- Consistency/repeatability
Decreased
- Reject/scrap rates
- Man power
- Factory lead times
Superior Project Management
Needs Analysis, Superior Design & Proactive Communication
Needs Analysis
The best possible solution is identified for the application at hand
Superior System Design
Made possible by cutting-edge tools + superior engineering
Proactive Communication
Customers see real time projects updates via Gantt charts on digital SmartSheets
Needs Analysis
Our engineers are highly skilled in analyzing a wide range of factors in order to present the best possible technology for a particular product decorating challenge.
Our engineers carefully consider:
- Part Characteristics
- Decoration Size and Complexity
- Production Environment
- Safety Requirements
- Production Speed & Volumes
- Up- and/or Downstream Processes
- Compliance/Validation Requirements
- User Requirement Specification
- Operator Skill Level
- Need for Pre- and Post- Treatments
- Application Performance Requirements & Environment
Superior System Design & Build
Once an order is received, our team of mechanical, electrical, control engineering and parts handling experts get to work designing a precision solution for your unique application. Whether the automation is big or small – the unmatched expertise of our team combined with our investment in cutting-edge technologies allow us to design systems with market-leading efficiency and precision.
Proactive Customer Communication
We listen carefully to our customers’ specific needs at each stage of development; from quoting through the final design review. Our proactive approach to customer communication ensures superior outcomes.
Over the past 40 years, our teams have developed particularly deep expertise in automations for our key markets.
Medical Market
- Deep familiarity with the medical product production process -from molding to assembly to drug application to packaging, decoration and beyond
- Comprehensive validation & documentation service (in CFR11, IQ/OQ/PQ and others) with GAMP processes
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Beauty Market
- Thousands of different cosmetics solutions completed
- Systems accommodate a variety of feeder, ejection systems and peripherals
- Short run to high volume projects
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Automotive Market
- Hundreds of automated automotive solutions completed
- Decades of experience with tier 1, 2 and 3 suppliers
- Compliance with stringent custom specifications
- Short run to high volume projects
- Tight tolerances
- Quick change tooling features
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Glass Decoration (Fragrance & Spirit Markets)
- Hundreds of automations completed
- 30 years’ experience
- Robust/efficient automated systems
- A single source combining screen printing primer application and hot stamping
- Decorate challengingly shaped parts
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Industrial Container Market
- Hundreds of automated industrial container solutions completed
- Deep familiarity with the entire production process & common industry pain points
- Systems accommodate a variety of containers, crates, totes and pallets
- Durable decoration to withstand the rugged environments in which they are used
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Tool Market
- Hundreds of automations completed for tool applications
- 30 years experience
- Durable decoration to withstand rugged application and manufacturing environments
- Automated efficiency maintaining premium aesthetics
- Specifically designed fixtures and part handling solutions for challengingly shaped housings for decoration on raised and flushed surfaces
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Closures Market
- Many full speed automated solutions for closure caps
- Systems run 24/7 for decades
- Quick dies change system
- Easy tooling change
- Embossing possible inline
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Appliance Market
- Hundreds of appliance market automations completed
- 30 years experience
- Robust/efficient automated systems
- A single source combining machinery & tooling
- Decorate challengingly shaped appliance parts
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How can we help you bring automation to your decorating challenge?