Industrial power tools and assembly equipment

1901: Design of the first pneumatic hammers for chipping and riveting. The hammers were developed on the basis of English and American models used in the Atlas workshops.
1910: Presentation of a new series of improved and simplified chipping and riveting hammers with a spool valve — the R series. The hammers were very advanced in design for their time and were designed by the skilled Atlas engineer Gustaf Andersson.
1918: First grinder in series production.
1930: Launch of new grinder generation with the revolutionary RS motor, developed by the Atlas engineer David Roos. This vane-type motor had only half the weight of the piston motors and a performance that greatly surpassed it.
1950: Launch of a series of modern impact wrenches, the LMS series. The LMS assembly system was further developed in the 1970s to handle simultaneous tightening of several screws in a single joint. The new advanced LMS assembly tools combined high working efficiency with flexibility, making screw tightening up to 20 times more efficient than conventional methods.

1957: Launch of the first turbo-driven dentist drill – the Atlas Dentalair. This drill made dental drilling extremely effective and much less painful for the patient. Dentalair was further developed during the 1960s into a universal dentist´s drill with a speed range from 500-100,000 rpm. 100,000 seems quite fast for a dentist’s drill!
1969: Launch of a multiple nutrunner for the auto industry.
1987: First generation of a new electric nutrunner, the Tensor, is introduced in the market.
1991: Development of the ErgoPulse hydraulic impulse nutrunner. Using a hydraulic pulse unit to gain more accurate final torque and reduce noise and vibrations in the impulse nutrunner was a known concept as early as the 1970s. Atlas Copco took this concept further with the patented pulse unit with unique cam-guided vanes.

1994: Second generation of Tensor S, the Power Focus 2000 is launched. Using entirely new motor technology, the Tensor S is a fast, uniquely light tool for precision tightening of critical joints. The Tensor motor has a performance five times that of a conventional motor and is very user-friendly due to its low weight.
1994: Introduction of the world´s most powerful hand-held grinder, the GTG 40 turbine grinder.
2000: Power Focus 3000 is launched. It is a modular range of control systems for car assembly. One unique feature is that the system was designed for Internet-type communication and data management. The web interface makes it easy to view and collect data from production sites all over the world, simply by using a web browser and an Internet connection.