Special equipment, fixtures and robotic cells designed around your own production process: from the study to construction and integration in the line.
Standard automation, such as palletising, is bought almost off the shelf. Most production problems of an SME are not standard: a process that grew over the years, older machines that must keep working, parts that change, a budget that has to pay back.
We study the whole process first, not only the station we were asked about, and we look for the targeted intervention that pays back, using the existing equipment where it can stay. Our agreements are judged by the result, not by the delivery of equipment.
Including the mechanical design and construction of the special mechanical parts.
Non-standard projects that need an original study and engineering. For a standard, catalogue automation, a specialised supplier is usually the better choice.
Turning a manual process into an automated station or line takes mechanical design, controls and a clear view of the process itself. We build machines around processes such as:
Control through PLCs, embedded PCs, programmable HMIs and robot controllers, and connection to databases for traceability.
Video: a custom automation
A typical cell includes:
Assembly, clamping, test and inspection fixtures, grippers and small special machines, designed for repeatability and built to last in production.
The whole process, its cycle times, its bottlenecks and its future: what will connect to it later.
The solution, what it costs to build and run, and how it pays back.
Mechanical design, controls and safety, with the special parts designed for manufacture.
Built, programmed and tested before it reaches your floor.
Installed in the line, connected to the existing machines, and running with your people.
Describe the process as it runs today: the parts, the operations, the cycle time and the people involved. A short video from the floor often says more than a specification.