Experience
From Humble Beginnings to Great Achievements...
1919
Swanson Tool & Die was founded by Oscar Swanson as a shop specializing in precision tool manufacturing and deep draw dies.
1930’s
Leonard Swanson established a machine design department which focused on the development of advanced multiple station equipment, both indexing and continuous, linear and rotary configured.
1950's
Intense new machine development and an emphasis on machine standardization, including rotary and inline machines. Automatic assembly was now becoming necessary to achieve higher production levels and improved quality.
1970's
Integrated manufacturing systems were now rationalized and entered into production. The Swanson Demand System incorporated a series/parallel machine arrangement for high productivity, high yields, and better utilization, and Synchro Bank System was to combine the best of synchronous and non-synchronous characteristics.
Swanson expanded its international reach with installations and support stretching the globe.
1990's
Swanson reaches its broadest spectrum of industries served and continues to innovate in large scale and high volume production machines.
2010 & Beyond
Developments in Swanson Agile Assembly lead to further standardization of modularized machine components and dramatic improvements in machine platform stability for key processes, motion control and even shipping advantages to worldwide locations. Smarter machines now lend themselves to both high volume production as well as lower volume, high mix requirements.
1920’s
The first decade of operation saw the company establish itself as a modest group of talented tool makers in a hard-working industry
1940's
Leonard Swanson, second from the left, believed that interchangeability, when applied to machine design, especially multiple station machine design, could be made to run fast, replicated, and produced in quantities by assured parts.
1960's
This decade saw the early standardization of comprehensive assembly machines and machine chassis. Toward the later years, began the industrial incorporation of programmable logic controls.
1980's
Greater demand for high volume production was met with advances in computer generated machine and systems diagnostics, which permitted greater productivity along with qualitative data.
2000's
Advances in servo controlled motion, robotics, vision systems, data tracking and system flexibility reach goals never previously achieved.