About Us
Welcome to DMW Automation. For over 50 years we have been designing, manufacturing, and integrating custom automation and packaging equipment for a variety of applications and markets worldwide.
Together with our installation, and service and support capabilities, DMW Automation’s custom automation solutions provide excellent results for our customers.
Select the sections below to learn more about how DMW Automation can solve your custom automation problems:
Company Overview
DMW Automation is a leader in the design and manufacture of custom machinery and factory automation equipment and systems that enable our customers to meet their production goals including quality and cost.
Our specialty is high-speed, to very high-speed continuous motion systems, although we offer a wide range of automation approaches. Our typical equipment speeds are 300 to 600 parts per minute with some applications as high as 1200 parts per minute.
DMW Automation’ personnel work closely with our customers in order to capitalize on their product knowledge while leveraging our experience and capability to design and build automation solutions that meet, or exceed, their manufacturing objectives.
Where appropriate, we utilize our significant internal fabrication capabilities to meet the most demanding requirements.
We are located minutes from Chicago’s O‘Hare International Airport, providing convenient access nationwide.
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| DMW Automation facility. |
History
DMW Automation was founded in 1959 under the name Weiler Tool and Die. In 1970, after growing our automation business from tool & die to full system capabilities, we branched into the field of automated liquid packaging through the integration of an aseptic liquid filling technology. Over the next 20 years, this business grew significantly and became known as Automatic Liquid Packaging, or ALP. In 1999, with approximately $70M in revenue, ALP was sold to Cardinal Health. After this sale, we split into two companies with the automation portion of the business becoming the current DMW Automation.
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| DMW Automation’s assembly floor in the early 1970’s. |
In parallel with the ALP effort, we were also expanding our custom automation business. Since the mid 1970’s and through collaborative efforts with some of the world’s leading battery manufacturers, we became one of the premier suppliers of production equipment for several different battery manufacturers. Our reputation was formed as a result of this success and the fact that our equipment helped increase production from 60 ppm to 300 ppm, and eventually 500 to 600 ppm. Today DMW Automation has over 45 battery lines being utilized around the world with many of them in service for more than 25 years. Today these lines produce an estimated 7.2 billion batteries per year worldwide.
In the 1990s, through patented technological advancements, we developed a proprietary and advanced platform for high-speed labeling applications for both the pharmaceutical and consumer product markets. This technology was utilized in the labeling platforms sold to Sancoa International, which helped propel them towards market leadership. In 2001 the owner of DMW acquired the labeling division of Sancoa and it was renamed Weiler Labeling Systems (WLS). Today after significant growth, WLS has become the clear market leader for Pharmaceutical labeling systems in the US and DMW Automation is the primary supplier of its labeler bases.
Since the 2000 spinoff, DMW Automation has expanded its battery equipment sales by not only continuing to supply existing alkaline customers, but by also attracting new customers building different types of batteries such as Lithium Ion and Hybrid Vehicle Batteries. In parallel we have been successful in attracting new Consumer Products customers for a variety of high-speed applications. Finally DMW has been very active in the Pharmaceutical industry working with 3rd party suppliers to offer a variety of vial coding and inspection solutions, including being the sole source supplier of custom automation for the Lighthouse Instruments VISTA platform. Lighthouse Instruments is the leading provider of non-destructive, optical-based research, at-line and in-line detection systems to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and contract manufacturing industry.
For more information about DMW Automation’s custom automation equipment and systems services, please call us at 847-437-0665 or email us at sales@dmwautomation.com.
