The special operating structure focused specifically on customer service has enabled us, through work opportunities, to offer our services to both machinery and plant manufacturers and to manufacturing industries; this has resulted in AST refining a spirit of observation of problems covering a wide area and catering for the requirements of the entire value chain, from conception, design, manufacture, testing and then management and after-sales servicing of industrial automation plants, machines, systems and processes:

• consultancy and analysis of problems and requirements
• design and analysis of mechatronic solutions
• electrical and electronic equipment design
• development of software for machine and plant operation
• development and integration of software for managing the entire production process
• development of software for managing production data
• installation, commissioning and testing of solutions throughout the world

AST system automation is currently split up as follows:

1. The Technical Sales Department: a. cooperates with the customer in the early stages of project development.
2. The Mechantronic Department: evaluates and integrates mechanical solutions and electronic solutions using actuators and sensors that permit achieving excellent results in terms of performance.
3. The PLC Software design Department: develops plant and machinery control programs and manages plant commissioning assistance.
4. The IT Department: develops and creates personalised PC software to integrate corporate IT machines and systems.
5. The Research and Development Department: develops software products to upgrade the automation system design process.