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Working With Your Robot Integrator: From Order to Long-Term Support
Deciding on a robot investment and setting the budget aside does not mean you are ready for it. What the months after the order tell you about the partner you chose.
Choosing a Robot Integrator: What Should You Look For?
The equipment list and the price are visible on the page. The experience behind a robot proposal takes more conversation to understand — here is what to look for before you choose an integrator.
Inside One of Our Longest Automation Sales Cycles
It took two years to reach the investment decision, and sixteen weeks to deliver the cell. What that sales cycle reveals about specifications, trust, and choosing the right first automation project.
Robot Utilization Is Not the Goal. Production Output Is.
Robot utilization matters when evaluating an investment. But it is not the first metric a manufacturer should optimize.
A stopped machine costs more than the parts it didn't make
Manufacturing downtime costs more than lost output. How indirect losses, weak production data and missed capacity quietly reduce margins — and the three fixes, in the order they actually work.
You may have the capacity. Can you prove it?
Nominal capacity is not the capacity you can promise. See how missing cycle, labor and stop-reason data hide usable CNC capacity — and which records close the gap.