The expansion incorporates advanced robotics and assembly lines designed to manufacture Christie's MicroTiles LEDs. “In production and manufacturing, there's a trend toward outsourcing automation,” explains Shawn Mills, Christie's director of display engineering. “By designing and building our own automation line with expert in-house engineers, and by increasing our manufacturing capacity, we're preparing for the next phase of growth. The result is a new space that incorporates best practices, including vertical integration, ensuring our customers will enjoy the highest quality products.”
We've also installed two new pick-and-place robots, which we're dedicating to basic, repetitive tasks, such as quickly and efficiently removing product from conveyor belts. By assigning the more routine tasks to robots, we're freeing up highly skilled manufacturing employees, who can now focus on more demanding work.

Mills doesn't hide his enthusiasm for the future and emphasizes the team's versatility: “Now we can invest even more in DFM (design for manufacturing), a process used in high-volume industries like automotive. Our team includes professionals who design and build the product, and they have naturally incorporated automation design into their workflow as just another element. The advantages for the company are incredible: control over the value chain is much more rigorous, and our capacity for innovation is no longer limited to product design, but also extends to the product creation process. We place as much importance on the process of making the product as on the product itself.”

The new production facilities allow Christie to increase the manufacturing of MicroTiles LEDs while maintaining the exceptionally high quality standards for which this product is renowned. “We measure every LED that comes off the assembly line and ensure it meets the strictest tolerances. This is what makes the flawless uniformity of the display canvases created with MicroTiles possible.”