From its Clyde, Ohio, shop, ProgressTAC designs and builds custom automated and robotic manufacturing systems, with particular depth in automotive glass and appliance production. Established as Progress Design and Machine in 1966, the company joined with Toledo Automated Concepts in 1990 and has operated under the ProgressTAC name since 2012. Its history includes producing its 500th glass-drilling machine in 2008, while today hundreds of its automated systems operate across the United States and 20 foreign countries.