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By Bruce Hubbard
Auto Advisor Group
Roseville MI September 9, 2009; When times are bad for the automotive industry with companies downsizing and closing facilities one company is prospering.
Summit Automation is moving downsized firms assembly lines to new facilities. Summit Automation is also helping other industries use their design staff and computer team to bring industry back to Michigan.
John Jackson show here with GM Mike Hebert
Summit Automation is one of the best engineering and software companies based in Southeast, Michigan is booming. The owner, John Jackson show here with GM Mike Hebert, saw automation and software as an integral part of his non-automotive business back in 1998. Since then he has turned his expertise in software and turnkey design into a demand service that every industry in North America needs. With companies requiring savings to keep their doors open, often upgrading existing operations can save 50% or more compared to a new design.
Summit Automation is hiring weekly throughout North America according to Summit’s manager Mike Hebert. “ I am hiring from every major city employees needed to meet the demand we have experienced.”
Summit Automation is unique in that it can deliver turnkey systems in record time. Summit Automation’s ability to write code from scratch and to understand their customers’ goals has brought more and more customers to their doors. Summit Automation, headquartered in Southeast Michigan, put together the best software team “ A miracle team” to manage small and large projects.
Summit Automation’s has been hiring engineers and software code writers from the automotive industry. Those automotive engineers use their experience from the automotive industry to meet the design and build needs of many of the largest companies in North America. Cost savings, quick response time and design that does not fail is why Summit Automation is getting business from top industrial businesses.
With today’s’ need to relocate existing production lines and manufacturing equipment as a result of downturn in the economy Summit Automation has seen a boost in business. Sales have double in one year! When facilities are consolidating they need a way to move and design that all the equipment works together. Summit has the ability to move the equipment, design and then get the systems working without failure.
ZF’s head of production, Bueryl Blaylock believes in Summit! Burl states “Summit understands our business. I cannot afford to throw out old equipment. We need to cut costs and Summit has been able to upgrade our present chassis and assembly lines in record time. The wait time for new equipment could be longer than what they can do in 30 to 45 days. Summit Automations ability to upgrade and design software that does the job saved us a lot of money. We give Summit Automation a project, we ask for it to be done in 30 to 45 days. They utilize our present equipment and they modify the design. Then their team of software experts makes it work. Their commitment to us in service is hands down the best we have ever had in 20 years!
An engineered and designed turnkey robotic line must work from day one. Designed from scratch lines should be nothing but fail-safe because every hour down costs the company. Summit Automation designers are able to reduce production time, increase productivity while reducing manpower and be efficient that profitability is high. In the real world the Automotive industry or non-automotive industry have found that if they do not hire the right group the launch of a redesigned or new line is a failure. That is where John Jackson, president, of Summit Automation and his team at Summit Automation have become the team or company to hire. The ability to bring “miracle software teams” to the design stage has made all the difference to Summit Automations clients as well as to the profitability of Summit Automation. Summit Automation has doubled profits in the past two years thanks to the work of their entire team in North America.
The team at Summit Automation is able to integrate an existing or design and implement a new system that increases productivity, product quality and worker safety. A strong solutions focus with Summit Automation is the key to doing this.
Summit Automation is currently working with one of the world’s premier robotic companies to integrate, design and even service their systems. That company , ABB or Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, started building and supplying robots in 1987. ABB has installed more than 160,000 robotic systems in the world to date. ABB has partnered with Summit Automation in North America, not only for automotive, but also for medical and even paint companies that need efficient systems installed, upgraded, designed and serviced.
One of the most amazing paint systems used at Home Depot, Lowes. Walmart , Sherwin Williams and others was developed in part with Summit Automation. Their team of “miracle software writers” developed not just the software but the hardware for the system that reads customers paint samples. Whether from a magazine, paint chip or even a computer print the system can duplicate the sample and provide a real paint sample for the customer. Duplicates a customers sample color and allows for immediate samples the customers have selected. Paint samples. The customer can do it all with a computer kiosk.
Whether automotive and any industry that needs to save money, make the best prototypes, set up a production line the staff at Summit is ready to assist.
To learn more contact Summit Automation. Visit their website at summitautomation.com or call Mike Hebert at 586 776 0098.
Article Originally seen on TheAutoChannel.com
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