A robot that works in production instead of standing unused

At the trade show the cobot looked great. Now it stands in a corner of the shop floor, because the vendor had to come out every time to change it over. Or you do not have one yet, but someone spends every day lifting boxes off the belt onto a pallet. That work is heavy and dull, and it is exactly where your production stalls as soon as it gets busy. We make sure a robot takes over that work and knows what the rest of your line is doing while it does.

Why a robot ends up in the corner

The robot arm itself is rarely the problem. The problem is everything around it. The robot does not know when the machine is done, so someone still stands next to it. The gripper fits one product and not the other. A new article means a new program, and only the vendor can write it. After waiting for a technician three times, the robot goes off and the operator is back at the station.

We see robotics integration as a software problem with an arm attached. It is about the link to your machines, your planning, and your products. That is where the work is, and that is where the gain is.

Let the robot talk to the rest of your factory

A robot that pulls its weight has to know what is happening around it. When the press is done. Which order is running now. Whether there is still an empty pallet. We take those signals from your PLC, from your ERP or MES, and from sensors on the machine itself. That builds on what we do under Industrial automation and PLCs: the same controls, the same signals, with one more device attached. Does your machine still run on buttons and lights without any connection? Then we extract the signals anyway with a Machine retrofit.

When products arrive unsorted or are not always in the same spot, we hang a camera above the belt. With Computer vision the robot recognizes what is there and picks it the right way, without every product first having to sit in a jig. That saves a lot of mechanics and turns changeover to a new article into a matter of a few photos instead of a new gripper.

First one working cell, then the rest

We do not start with a hall full of robots. We take one step: loading a machine, palletizing at the end of the line, screwing on a lid. Within 10 business days there is a working cell with your products and your cycle time. Not in a showroom, but on your floor, next to the people who will work with it.

You see right away what gets in the way. The gripper drops a product. The machine does not keep up with the cycle time. An operator keeps walking through the safety zone. Those are things you never see in a proposal and see on the floor within a day. If it turns out the step is not suited to a robot, for instance because every product is different and the volume is too low, we tell you right away. A smarter machine or a different layout of the workstation is cheaper then. Only once the cell does what it should, do we look at whether the same approach fits somewhere else in the line.

Safe, documented, and yours

A robot cell is a machine, and a machine has to be safe for everyone who walks past it. We do the risk assessment, choose the right safeguarding, whether that is a fence, a light curtain, or a cobot with force limiting, and record why. For the formal completion we work with CE and EMC certification, so you have a file and not just a sticker on the cabinet.

Everything we make is yours. The robot programs, the PLC code, the link to your ERP, and the documentation. Your operators learn to teach the cell a new product and to clear a fault themselves, so you do not have to wait for a technician for every change. If you then want us to monitor and adjust the cell remotely, we can. It is not a condition.