{"id":172815,"date":"2023-11-20T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=172815"},"modified":"2023-11-20T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T03:30:19","slug":"van-wert-company-showcases-state-of-the-art-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/11\/20\/van-wert-company-showcases-state-of-the-art-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert company showcases new facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em>\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you do when you have a still-new 140,000 square foot manufacturing and engineering facility that employs nearly 200 people and uses state-of-the-art robotic equipment? You showcase it to your clientele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what happened last Thursday and Friday at Alliance Automation in Van Wert. The company\u2019s new facility on John Brown Road, just off U.S. 30, opened in early 2022 and, during last week\u2019s client open house, customers from near and far had a chance to see it and Alliance Automation\u2019s operation firsthand. It was billed as a glimpse into the future of automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is just a small glimpse inside Alliance Automation’s new facility, which opened in early 2022. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For those who don\u2019t know, Alliance Automation designs and builds robotic automation systems that optimize production processes for different industries, including automotive, manufacturing and material handling projects. Much of the focus of last week’s open house centered around wooden pallets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are showing the recycled pallet industries our automation solutions for dismantled, sorting and repair,\u201d Inside Sales Engineer Ashley Metzger said. \u201cA lot of these people are our customers currently but they\u2019re looking at other solutions for their industry. They\u2019re from all throughout America but we also have some from Canada, Sweden, Iceland, and the Netherlands.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the facility\u2019s machines were running with experts posted at each one to demonstrate them and answer questions, with a focus on pallets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn a global scale, we\u2019re one of the largest, if not the largest, pallet equipment producers in the world,\u201d Chief Operating Officer Browning Sheenan said. \u201cWe\u2019re dealing with the big players\u2026we\u2019re partnered with the largest whitewood and pooling pallet companies in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting to open up space in the European market right now and we have two companies that we\u2019re partnering with,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re getting a lot of companies that are coming to us that have technology to roll out to the North American market. One of the biggest opportunities, we don\u2019t know exactly what it\u2019s going to consist of yet, is true pallet inspection so instead of using a human eye to do pallet inspection, they\u2019re doing pallet inspections with an AI (artificial intelligence) vision system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those attending the open house also heard information from President and CEO Doug Wenninger, who founded the company in Delphos in 2008. Alliance Automation moved to Van Wert two years later and after continued growth, consolidated four locations into the new facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company also has a 30,000 square football engineering and manufacturing facility in Le\u00f3n, Guanajuato, Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information can be found at allianceautomation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 What do you do when you have a still-new 140,000 square foot manufacturing and engineering facility that employs nearly 200 people and uses state-of-the-art robotic equipment? You showcase it to your clientele. That\u2019s what happened last Thursday and Friday at Alliance Automation in Van Wert. The company\u2019s new facility on John Brown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 16:45:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172815"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172884,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815\/revisions\/172884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}