COMPANY PROFILE
History
Advanced Technical Services GmbH was established in 1967 with the purpose to introduce scientific and analytical instrumentation to the Middle-Eastern countries. ATS has over 30 years of experience in projects implementation in the Middle-East, as well as in Africa and Asia [click on typical projects].
Based on the many years of field work, ATS has invested, in the past 10 years, in the research and development of its own technologies, with special emphasis on optical emission spectroscopy. These efforts resulted in a product line that meets the needs of a 21st century laboratory yet is simple to operate. The ATS products are being marketed internationally through a network of professional sales distributors.
Many of the company?fs analytical instruments are optimised for specific applications, most notably health care (clinical electrolyte analysis as well as for testing Li, Mg & Ca), environmental quality control, agriculture petroleum and petrochemical industries, the power generating sector, etc. Others serve general applications and are employed in a variety of industries, teaching institutions and general laboratories. The company?fs unique proprietary technology enables users also to meet international standards?f requirements.
ATS places special emphasis on very high quality, in material as well as performance. Instruments have been approved and are being used by many multi-national companies in a variety of applications.
The Team
The ATS team consists of qualified and highly motivated professionals, who have worked together for a number of years. They form a coordinated group each contributing his/her specialised skills and ideas. With extensive exposure to diverse surroundings not only in Europe and the USA but also in the more rugged areas of the Middle-East, Africa and Asia, their wide-ranging experience has greatly contributed to the design of our instruments; it also enables them to find solutions even in difficult conditions.
The Scope
ATS has undertaken its research and development work with the aim to produce products that can overcome the many shortcomings and often time consuming procedures of existing methodologies. Time savings, simplified procedures, economy of operation and regard for the environment were the principal goals of our R + D. We were further very conscious of the rapidly growing number of regulations that laboratories had to meet to be able to compete in the global market. Where product liability is a risk factor, the elimination of as many error points as possible is a must and the traceability of the analytical procedure necessary.
The management of any company that has to accept product liability with possible legal consequences will appreciate the evidencing of a laboratory?fs analysis report and the laboratory in turn will want maximum automation of its analysis procedure, in order to reduce possible human error. Most important is further the need to maintain a low cost management system that allows a reliable audit trail.
ATS has optimised its products to help customers meet these requirements.
The Benefits
The trend for globalization is introducing not only greater competitiveness but also a higher demand for transparency, accountability and the demand by international bodies to meet international standards. Higher analytical quality standards have to be met, while cost efficiency for such additional new tasks demand higher performance instrumentation with minimal involvement of manual operation.
The new ATS technology, High Performance Flame Photometry (HPFP)??} is not only able to assist companies to meet these challenges, but its instruments also offer other unique benefits over traditional flame photometers.
- extended straight linear segment of the analytical curve;
(requires minimal dilutions and gives better analytical accuracy)
- higher sensitivity;
(100 counts to 1 ppm instead of 3 ppm, is a three times higher sensitivity and offers
a direct linear concentration relationship)
- higher precision;
- read-out in direct concentrations from the analyser;
(instead of using graphs or tables)
- uses only a single standard for calibration;
(instead of the usual 5 standards required)
- better detection limits
(0.05 ppm for Na/K instead of 0.1 ppm)
- minimal memory effect;
(the ATS 200 HPFP??} analysers do not require re-zeroing after each sample)
- speed of analysis - 3 seconds or better;
(instead of over 20 sec. - very important for precision and the quality of analytical results)
- micro-sample technology;
(instead of the usual volume of solutions presently needed for macro samples)
- low solution consumption and cost of consumables;
(typically 1/10th of the needs for similar analysers or techniques)
- printer option;
(avoids transcription errors)
- RS232 PC-interface;
(allows PC operated procedures and the use of autodilutors and auto-samplers).
The Services
?E ATS has an in-house engineering facility for opto-electronics and computers enabling it to develop specialised systems required by a project.
?E ATS has a chemical laboratory that is geared for material testing and with new computerised instrumentation it compliments the engineering department.
?E ATS also offers training to the engineers & technicians of our customers and sales distributors.
Typical Projects.
Hereafter is a summary of projects undertaken by Advanced Technical Services GmbH listed by category:
Education
?E Material & Energy Research Center - Teheran - Iran
Project: Laboratory for production of semi-conductor materials and integrated circuitry.
?E Kuwait University, Faculty of Science - Kuwait
Project: Esca Photoelectron Spectrometer (Surface Analysis Laboratory)
?E University of Petroleum & Minerals (UPM), Metallurgy Dept. - Dhahran - Saudi Arabia
Project: Installation, training and later upgrading of spectrometer for metallurgy.
Industry
?E Royal Jordanian Airlines (ALIA) - Amman - Jordan
Project: Microbiology Laboratory for Mass Catering (Supply of complete microbiological facility (planning and supply).
?E Pakistan International Airways (P.I.A.) - Karachi - Pakistan
Project I : Microbiology for detecting trace metals in lubricating oils for engine failure prevention;
Project II : A second spectrometric laboratory for special steels (Precision Engineering)
?E ARAMCO - Dhahran - Saudi Arabia
Project: Optical Spectrometer for oil, water, soils and steels analysis.
?E Jeddah Oil Refinery - Jeddah - Saudi Arabia
Project: Training 15 technicians in AAS for operation and maintenance.
?E Modern Foundry - Cairo - Egypt
Project: Quality Control Laboratory; High Temperature Alloys Special Steels and Cast Iron.
Government Research
?E Geological Survey of Iran - Teheran - Iran
Project: Classical and Modern Automated Geochemistry laboratories.
?E Geological Survey of Egypt - Cairo - Egypt
Project : DC Arc CID simultaneous Spectrochemical laboratory.
?E Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research - Kuwait
Project: Water Pollution and Industrial Research, ICAP Laboratory.
?E Agriculture Development - Buraida - Saudi Arabia
Project: Agriculture Regional Laboratories
?E Ministry of Interior - Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Project: Criminology Laboratory with DC-Arc and Laser excited sample analysis. ?E U.P.M. Research Center - Dhahran - Saudi Arabia
Project: Water Pollution & Industrial Research
Project: ICAP Laboratory
?E Korea Advanced Energy Research Institute - Daejon - South Korea
Contractor: S.G.N. Paris - France
Project: Spectrographic Laboratory for Quality Control.
United Nations Organisation
A.T.S. is closely involved with the supply of instrumentation, material and services for different branches of the United Nations such as listed below:
?E Food and Agriculture Organisation (F.A.O.)
Countries: Pakistan, Jordan.
?E World Health Organisation (W.H.O.)
Countries: China, Egypt, Kuwait.
?E United Nations Development Programme (U.N.D.P.)
Countries: Iran, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Sudan.
?E United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (U.N.I.D.O.)
Countries: Cameroon, Pakistan, Jordan, Sri-Lanka.
New Technologies
Innovative ideas have led Advanced Technical Services GmbH to its own new technology in optical photometry.
High performance flame photometry (HPFP)??} is the proprietary technology of
Advanced Technical Services GmbH - Switzerland. Based on Traditional flame photometry principles, the ATS HPFP??} instruments incorporate these new technologies and coupled with specific methodologies they offer such benefits that set them apart from conventional flame photometers.
The new ATS analysers have increased performance in terms of speed, sensitivity and precision. They have extended analytical measuring ranges, lowered detection limits and allow simplified sample preparation procedures. Even samples with concentration levels that could not be analysed with traditional instruments can now be analysed. Development projects (such as in health the screening of a community, or in agriculture the soil fertility testing for different zones and crops) can now be implemented in a much shorter time and with greater detail.
Of special benefit to the chemical processing industry are the several optimised instruments for laboratory use, or for on-line installations. The HPFP??} flame photometers allow for optimisation of the analysis process; connected to a computer and an autosampler they form the ATS HPFP??} System.
ATS also offers a compact printer which allows automatic single report printouts, i.e. a single report on the combined data of the analyses of a sample. This eliminates the need for a variety of other steps as well as the time to write and file separate reports which in turn leaves qualified personnel free for more valuable work. Most important: it eliminates errors that can occur with transcription.
Statistics have shown that about 60% of the analysis time is spent with the preparation of the samples. It was therefore one of the objectives of the ATS team to complement their instruments with a sample preparation station that can simplify and speed up the process of sample preparation. The ATS LABASSISTANT??} was the answer!
The ATS LABASSISTANT??} extends the benefits of the ATS HPFP??} technology to a full, on-line sample preparation and analysis routine. It operates with micro samples, increasing overall analytical accuracy and reducing both, the need for expensive chemicals and the amount of industrial waste. It greatly increases productivity and the dependability of the analysis results and also saves space in the laboratory.
The ATS LABASSISTANT??} is an autonomous, random access sample preparation station that can also be used with analysers other than the ATS HPFP??} flame photometers, such as pH, AAS, ICP, GC, ISE, IC, HPLC, etc. with a common recording of all steps involved in the different methods.
With robotics automation and computer software operation, simultaneous data logging in specific pre-defined files is but one of the options open to a laboratory manager. Statistical information can be retrieved that will assist in GLP and method validation. Statistics and histograms can be established, graphic displays of key values made, and many more functions set up.
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