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Why AIR?
Automated Industrial Robotics (AIR) unites technical depth, operational strength, and modern capability in a single partner built for ambitious manufacturers.
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Capabilities
Deep process and systems expertise, engineered to optimize performance, efficiency, and long-term operational success.
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Sectors
Discover how AIR can help your drive innovation, efficiency, and scale.
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Medical
Driving innovation in medical device assembly, surgical instruments, orthopedic, cardiology & CRM, peripheral and continence care, and more.
Pharma
AIR partners with leading pharmaceutical companies to design, build, and support advanced automation systems for complex, highly regulated production environments.
Semiconductor
Enabling startups, global semiconductor equipment OEMs, and semiconductor fabs to scale to high-volume production systems.
Food & beverage
Proven experience across a wide range of food and beverage manufacturing processes and products including tea, bakery, pet foods, ready meals, beverage and tobacco.
Automotive
We bring the latest automation thinking, expertise, and equipment from ultrasonic welding, clipping, screwing, and snapping to materials handling, inspection, and traceability.
Consumer goods
AIR brings together deep, specialist automation expertise to deliver complex solutions across cosmetics, personal care, pet care, and electronics manufacturing.
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About AIR
AIR combines deep engineering expertise, industrial scale, and advanced capability in one powerful partner for ambitious, progressive manufacturers.
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Deep process and systems expertise, engineered to optimize performance, efficiency, and long-term operational success.
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We partner with ambitious, progressive manufacturers across the medical, pharma, semiconductor, food & beverage, automotive, and consumer goods sectors. Discover how AIR can help your drive innovation, efficiency, and scale.
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Emerging technology,
semiconductor and more
AIR in Silicon Valley focuses on high-tech industries, offering specialized expertise in semiconductors, medical products, renewable energy, emerging technologies and data storage. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Medical, pharmaceutical
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AIR in Shannon, Ireland focuses on advanced automation for the MedTech industry. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Deep expertise for
progressive manufacturers
Across our six sites, we offer specialized expertise and automation innovation to a range of sectors:
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Pharma, medical, food and beverage,
consumer goods and more
Across our six sites, AIR works in a range of sectors:
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Medical devices, filling
machines and more
AIR in Sligo, Ireland delivers advanced automation solutions for medical and life sciences manufacturers, including flexible filling systems and high-speed filling systems. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Deep automotive
expertise and more
AIR in Rochester Hills specializes in the design and manufacture of fully integrated stand-alone assembly, specialized machines, and automated and secondary assembly equipment. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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High-speed, high-quality automation for
world-leading consumer goods companies

AIR brings together deep, specialist automation expertise across cosmetics, personal care, pet care, and electronics manufacturing, combined with the project delivery discipline and scale to support complex consumer goods programs from concept through commissioning and lifecycle support. We also have working knowledge and experience in supplying machines to meet regulatory standards, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). We’ve delivered multiple projects for the consumer good industry for customers including Procter & Gamble. This includes palletization, and flexible packaging lines to facilitate late-stage customization of retail packages.

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45-year track record.
Delivering innovation and scale for consumer goods manufacturers since 1979.
600+ global team.
Drawing on decades of innovation in high-speed, advanced consumer goods manufacturing.
6 fully integrated facilities.
One team across multiple US and European facilities, with 400,000+ sq ft of production space.
AIR’s consistent focus on quality while meeting project schedules is greatly appreciated. Their reliability and customer-oriented approach continue to make a positive impact.
AIR customer
Why AIR for consumer goods

End-to-end partner

Deep, agile collaboration and complete lifecycle support — from ideas to concepts, build to commissioning, maintenance to optimization.

AIR is proud to support some of the world’s most advanced production teams in the consumer goods industry.

Scale and agility
With 600 people, six facilities, and 400,000 sq ft of capability behind us, we have the infrastructure to scale complex solutions reliably. Yet we operate with the flexibility, energy, and hands-on mindset of an ambitious, progressive engineering partner to help our consumer goods clients innovate, scale, and win.
Scale and agility
Deep consumer goods process and product expertise
We bring the latest thinking, expertise, and equipment from handling, feeding and filling, to labeling, traceability, and packaging. Our cross-functional consumer goods engineering expertise will help bring your products to market faster, smarter, and more sustainably.
Expertise
Proven, consistent, 7-step project management framework
Every consumer goods project is executed using our proven, standardized seven-step project management framework consistently applied across the AIR organization. Combining engineering disciplines, key suppliers, and customers into a single, unified delivery model.
Project management
All-in commitment
Our project management system provides structure and consistency, but collaboration is where we truly differentiate. We align around shared goals, open communication, and clear accountability, integrating consumer goods customers and suppliers into one focused team.
All-in commitment
Full lifecycle support with AIR360
When new consumer goods manufacturing systems go live, we don’t step back; we lean in. AIR360 delivers full lifecycle support for both our systems and third-party equipment, with proactive maintenance, training, and upgrades that maximize performance, reduce downtime, and extend asset life.
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Consumer goods capabilities
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Bottles of orange juice moving along a filling line
Consumer goods sector capabilities

Consumer goods process and product experience

AIR brings together deep automation expertise, proven project delivery, and the scale to support complex consumer goods programs from concept through commissioning and lifecycle support.

Cosmetics and personal care
Lipsticks, shampoos, razors, moisturizers, deodorants, and applicators.
Home care products
Detergents, cleaners, fabric care products.
Pet care
Pet food, treats and chews – from cutting and portioning to multipack assembly.
Toys
Component assembly, decoration, and packaging for high-volume toy production.
Consumer electronics
Precision assembly, testing, and packaging.

Consumer goods manufacturing capabilities

High-speed assembly & handling

Cutting & forming

  • Cutting technology (static, rotary, ultrasonic, and guillotine systems)
  • Metal-hardening technology (razor blade heating, cooling, and tempering)

Filling, labeling & packaging

Robotics & automation

Traceability & quality

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Certification and standards excellence

  • ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 Certified facilities
  • EcoVadis rated
  • SafeContractor approved
  • EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 GMP compliance
  • FDA / GMP compliance (pet care and food-adjacent lines)
  • Fanuc authorized system integrator
  • Kawasaki preferred integrator
  • Robotics Industries Association member
Sites
AIR Wakefield facility exterior
Rochester Hills, MI, USA
AIR Rochester Hills facility exterior
Wakefield, UK
AIR Shannon facility exterior
Shannon, Ireland
AIR Silicon Valley facility exterior in Fremont
Silicon Valley, CA, USA
AIR Mullingar facility exterior
Mullingar, Ireland
AIR Sligo facility exterior
Sligo, Ireland
Consumer goods case studies
Dual-arm collaborative robots picking bottles from a conveyor
Complex pick-and-place solution to automate bottle sorting

The customers requested a solution to automate the bottle sorting section of their production line. The line involved a number of variations in bottle sizes and shapes. This AIR original design involves…

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Thin film solar cell production line glowing orange during processing
Case studies
High-speed production lines cut thin film solar cell costs 10x

The CTO of a large thin film solar manufacturer wanted to reduce the cost of a critical electrical component by a factor of 10. The company lacked time and internal resources to validate and implement…

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Precision alignment enables next-generation tablet display assembly

A next-generation tablet design required extremely precise alignment of the display to the back housing, a task the contract manufacturer was unable to solve with a passive alignment fixture. The process…

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