History

As founders of Universal-Automatic Corporation, the Klancnik family has seen the machine tool industry grow and change since the company was started in 1957. Part tolerances, for example, have become increasingly tighter, customers that want to hold tenths, or closer, instead of thousandths are now commonplace. Even though tolerances have changed, the vision for Universal-Automatic has not. Our vision is still to design and build high-quality, reliable machine tools using the newest and best technology available in order to provide customers with increased productivity and greater manufacturing precision at a lower cost. This vision of quality control and machine reliability has set the standards we follow every day at Universal-Automatic.

When Universal-Automatic originated our primary products were pneumatic drilling and tapping equipment and imaginative tooling concepts. Derived through time our customers have continually challenged us to keep improving upon ourselves, and we have expanded our creative manufacturing systems over the years. Our engineering staff now designs most of our machines specifically to our customer's specification and the parts the machine will process. By seeing these tasks as opportunities and not boundaries, we have developed all of the skills necessary to build world class machinery. We have gone from pneumatic head units to building hydraulic and high precision ballscrew servo driven units that are among the highest quality in the world market. We now have the ability to build complete systems with automation, automatic gauging and complete part flexibility.