From Digital Strategy to Factory-Floor Scale
Enabling Succession and Evolution of U.S. Manufacturing
A business succession and growth platform for U.S. small and medium-sized manufacturers.
With operational improvement expertise from 40+ DX engagements and mass production equipment development, we reliably scale your business.
AMS Business Model
How AMS creates value
Target
U.S. Manufacturing SMEs
Companies with excellent technology
and customer base facing succession challenges
No Successor (Succession Gap)
Lagging in DX & Digitalization
Solution
AMS Platform
Grounded KAIZEN meets technological innovation
Shop Floor Expertise
40+ DX engagements
Manufacturing process optimization
Digital Execution
Digital Translation
Systematizing tacit knowledge
Equipment Development
From prototype to mass production
Scalable production design
Global Distribution
Japan, Asia, Europe
Immediate market access
Digital × Physical Execution
Beyond software — implementation on the factory floor
Value
Revitalization & Global Growth
Transformation to high-profit enterprises with lasting legacy
Global Market Expansion
Entry into Asian and European markets
Improved Profit Margins
Cost reduction and productivity gains through on-site Kaizen and DX
Business Continuity (Legacy)
Employment preservation and brand succession
Group synergies and supply chain development
Our Mission
Creating a new future for manufacturing across borders.
We don't just acquire. We bridge, respect, and revitalize.
01 Sustainable Succession
Long-term Business Continuity
We're not just buyers — we're "second founders" who carry forward the founder's vision. Deploying a proven group management model from Japan, we protect business continuity and employee livelihoods.
02 Global Market Access
Immediate Entry to International Markets
We take your products to Japan, Asia, and European markets. Through the AMS Group network, we provide immediate access to global distribution channels that would be difficult for a standalone company to achieve.
03 Operational Evolution
Advancing Management and Technology
We leverage cutting-edge technology while executing grounded, practical improvements on the shop floor. We steadily modernize manufacturing speed, precision, and profitability to enhance your competitive edge.
04 Respect for Autonomy
Preserving Identity and Independence
We place the highest priority on respecting the history, culture, and brand of acquired companies. While building synergies and supply chains across the AMS Group, we support each company in continuing to thrive as an independent entity.
For Business Owners
"Your Legacy is Our Future"
The history you've built, your brand, and your employees —
we respect them above all else.
AMS is not an investment fund seeking short-term flips.
We are a strategic partner committed to growing your business for the long term.
Preserving Culture and Jobs
We don't pursue aggressive restructuring or rebranding. We cherish local, community-rooted identity.
Reliable Business Growth
We take your business to the next level through global market expansion, cost reduction via shop-floor improvements, and productivity gains from mass production equipment development.
For Investors
Investment Strategy & Value Creation
Digital × Physical Execution — we do both software and the shop floor.
Significantly reducing execution risk to deliver reliable returns.
The U.S. Manufacturing "Succession" Crisis
Today, a growing number of U.S. small and medium-sized manufacturers with excellent technology face closure due to lack of successors. AMS invests in and integrates these "succession-challenged" quality companies, ensuring business continuity and growth opportunities.
Why AMS? — Our Competitive Edge
Digital × Physical Execution — We do both digital and shop floor
We've driven DX at over 40 companies in Japan — one of the world's most challenging markets for digital transformation. From this experience, we've systematized "why DX succeeds and why it fails."
Furthermore, we have a track record in manufacturing process improvement and mass production equipment development, with the capability to scale digital strategies on the factory floor. Most DX stops at software. Most manufacturing teams stop at hardware. We handle both.
For investors, this means significantly reduced execution risk and shortened time from strategy to production scale.
Specific Value-Up Initiatives
01. Global Market Access
Immediate Connection to Global Markets
We expand acquired companies' products into Japan, Asia, and European markets. Through the AMS Group network, we immediately provide "global distribution channels" that would be difficult for standalone companies to achieve, accelerating revenue growth.
Top-line Growth02. Digital × Physical Execution
End-to-End from Digital to Production Floor
Beyond mere digitalization, we "translate" shop-floor judgment, experience, and intent into scalable systems. We also handle manufacturing process improvement and mass production equipment development, reliably scaling strategy on the factory floor. With 40+ DX engagements, we identify failure patterns in advance and significantly reduce execution risk.
Margin Improvement03. Group Synergy
Efficiency Through Group Management
We reduce fixed costs through shared back-office functions (shared services) and consolidated procurement and logistics. While maintaining each company's autonomy, we pursue economies of scale as a group.
OptimizationFund Overview
Target Region
North America (Midwest / East Coast)
Target Sector
Industrial, Automotive, Assembly
Revenue Size
$5M - $50M
Exit Strategy
Trade Sale, IPO, Secondary
Investor Q&A
Q1. What differentiates AMS?
Our ability to execute "both" DX and manufacturing end-to-end.
Typically, teams strong in DX and teams strong in manufacturing exist separately. However, scaling digital strategy on the factory floor requires deep understanding of both.
We've built a track record of 40+ engagements in Japan — considered one of the most challenging markets for DX — and have systematized methodologies for connecting digital systems with shop-floor judgment and constraints. This end-to-end "Digital × Physical" execution capability is our unique strength.
Q2. Why is experience with Japanese companies an advantage?
The Japanese market presents unique DX challenges: heavy reliance on individual judgment, dependence on tacit knowledge, and complex legacy processes create significant barriers to transformation.
By building a track record of 40+ engagements in this environment, we've established a methodology to identify "where failures occur" in advance and avoid them.
This experience is fully applicable to other markets such as the U.S. and Europe. Precisely because our methodology was forged in a challenging environment, it works reliably in any market.
Q3. Are you a consulting company or an execution team?
We are an "execution-focused operator group." Consulting ends with recommendations. We execute — design, implementation, validation, and scale — both digitally and physically.
Q4. What risk do you reduce for investors?
We reduce execution risk.
Most DX fails not because of technology, but because digital systems don't align with "how people actually make decisions and work," and because production floor realities surface too late.
We make these risks visible early and design around them proactively.
Leadership
Hirotoshi Sato
President & CEO
Combines advanced compliance expertise as an attorney with proven business investment and development experience as an entrepreneur.
With work experience at U.S. financial institutions, he is well-versed in international finance and cross-border transactions. He has led numerous new business launches through collaboration with cutting-edge technology companies in AI, robotics, and related fields.
He drives AMS's global platform development from multidisciplinary perspectives spanning legal, finance, and technology.
Richard Dasher, PhD
Advisor (Board Member)
Director, U.S.-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University.
Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.
Has researched U.S.-Japan innovation systems since 1993. Served as Trustee at Tohoku University (2004-2010). Maintains an extensive network as an advisor to startups, VCs, and government agencies in Silicon Valley and Asia.
Legal Counsel
Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP (Tokyo Office)
Marunouchi Building, 2-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Supporting global legal and compliance frameworks.
News
Completed foreign corporation registration in California and established U.S. headquarters functions.
Anything Manufacturing Services, Inc. incorporated in Delaware.
Company Profile
- Company Name
- Anything Manufacturing Services, Inc.
- Representative
- Hirotoshi Sato (President & CEO)
- Headquarters
- 3000 El Camino Real, Building 2, Suite 120, Palo Alto, CA 94306
- Japan Office
- Tokyo, Japan