Automated Industrial Systems Erie, LLC

Automated Industrial Systems Erie, LLC Automated Industrial Systems has been manufacturing O-ring and seal assembly equipment since 1978.

09/02/2026

AIS has been making O-ring and seal installation easy since 1978!

We are the Experts in O-ring installation.

https://www.aisoring.com

09/02/2026

You don't need an in-house automation team to automate seal installation. You need ours for a few weeks.

AIS has a fully staffed engineering department in Erie, PA, and we build everything from hand tools to fully automated cells. If your plastics operation has been putting off automation because you don't have the internal bandwidth, that's a conversation worth having.

Find us at the 2026 MAPP Benchmarking & Best Practices Conference this fall.

https://asporing.com/ais-at-mapp-2026/

Here's the entire operator training manual for the system we're building right now: load parts in one feeder bowl, load ...
09/01/2026

Here's the entire operator training manual for the system we're building right now: load parts in one feeder bowl, load o-rings in the other, turn it on.

That's it. That's the job.

Getting a machine to be that simple to run is the hard part, not the easy part, we’ll take care of that for you. Underneath that two-step instruction sheet is a SCARA robot moving parts, an o-ring installation machine doing the actual seal placement, and a sensor checking the work before the part ever leaves the cell.

We'll show you more of what's happening under the hood over the next few weeks. For now, enjoy the fact that somewhere on our shop floor, a machine is currently smarter than most Monday mornings require anyone to be.

https://asporing.com/turnkey-o-ring-installation-cell-is-taking-shape/

09/01/2026

This runs by hand. One operator, moving the part from station to station, not a conveyor doing the work for them.

The ASP-2 is set up right handed. The ASP-1 is set up left handed. Mounted next to each other on a shared stand.

Sounds minor until you're the one standing there running parts all shift. No repositioning. No reaching across your own body to feed the second station.

Small detail, but real impact on how a shift actually goes.

Full story:
https://asporing.com/changed-part-changed-seals/

We don't usually post pictures of an empty frame. Today we're making an exception.This is the start of a fully automated...
08/31/2026

We don't usually post pictures of an empty frame. Today we're making an exception.

This is the start of a fully automated turnkey o-ring installation cell. It's going to grow a SCARA robot, a couple of parts feeders, one of our own o-ring installation machines, and a verification system, all working together as one unit instead of a machine you bolt into your own line.

We talk a lot about our benchtop machines here. Versatile, easy to integrate, easy to change tooling. All true, all still coming. But we don't talk enough about the fact that sometimes customers just want the whole cell handed to them, done.

So we're going to document this one as it happens. Frame to finished machine. Follow along.

https://asporing.com/turnkey-o-ring-installation-cell-is-taking-shape/

08/31/2026

Scrap rates that creep up and nobody can quite explain why. Sound familiar?

Manual O-ring and seal installation is a common culprit and a boring one, since it's rarely one big mistake, just small inconsistencies that add up over a shift.

We'll be talking through this exact problem at the 2026 MAPP Benchmarking & Best Practices Conference, September 29 to October 1 in Indianapolis.

https://asporing.com/ais-at-mapp-2026/

08/28/2026

Quick question for anyone running a plastics line. How much of your seal installation is still done by hand?

If the honest answer is "most of it," you're not alone, and it's usually not because nobody's thought about automating it. It's because nobody had the engineering hours to figure out where to start.

We'll be at MAPP this year if you want to hash that out in person.
https://asporing.com/ais-at-mapp-2026/

08/28/2026

Capital equipment ROI is usually measured in years. AIS customers tend to measure it in months.

That's not marketing. It's the math of replacing a manual process that requires multiple operators with a machine that runs one. When your loaded labor cost per operator is real and your installation volume is meaningful, the payback arithmetic doesn't take long to work out.

What this piece gets into is the full picture, not just the labor side, but the quality, rework, and throughput factors that often accelerate the ROI beyond what you modeled in the initial justification.

Worth reading before you build your capital request.
👉 https://asporing.com/maximize-roi-with-ais-o-ring-and-seal-installation-machines/

08/28/2026

One o-ring installed. One to go.

This part needed a second ring, much smaller, in a different location entirely. Different groove, different depth, different everything except the part it was going on.

The ASP-2's new head assembly wasn't built to do that job too.

So a second machine joined the lineup. An ASP-1, specced for the smaller ring.

Two machines, doing what they're each actually built to do.

Full story:
https://asporing.com/changed-part-changed-seals/

08/27/2026

We're heading back to the MAPP Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference this September. Indianapolis, September 29 to October 1.

If your line still has someone hand-pressing O-rings into parts, we should probably talk while we're there.

Details and how to grab time with us:
https://asporing.com/ais-at-mapp-2026/

Address

4238 West 12th Street
Erie, PA
16505

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+18148382270

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