Machine building_

We design and build machines to order – for any industry. We have been doing this from the ground up for many years: for a specific process, recipe and set of requirements. These are not off-the-shelf catalogue solutions – every ROBCO_ process machine is made to measure.

Building machines to order lets us create solutions matched 1:1 to your process and production parameters, while meeting the highest technical standards. This gives you maximum efficiency and better control over your processes.

The system automatically pumps and weighs oil from the main tank, then doses it into the mixer at the right moment – in line with the defined recipe.

Throughput: 8,000 l per hour.
Result: automatic oil dosing with weight control has eliminated recipe errors.

A special-purpose machine that cuts parking sensor (PDC) holes in a car bumper, cuts 20 holes for mounting a decorative trim strip and ultrasonically welds the sensor brackets. Before detailed design, we worked out the operating sequences and calculated cycle times for four machine variants, and verified the cutting units and dies with linear static analysis.

A robotic cell of around 50 m² that handles 12 types of car bumper. The robot changes its own tools – each of the eight tools cuts six different holes. We developed the concept and operating sequence, all robot movements, the frame design with the layout of machine components, and the cutting tools.

A manual backup fixture that stands in for the special-purpose machine: it cuts parking sensor holes in the front and rear bumpers and in the left and right trim panels, and ultrasonically welds three body parts in two variants. We designed a welding table with clamps for both part variants, handheld ultrasonic welders, clamping tables, cutting units and a welded centre frame.

A station for manually welding four parking sensor brackets to a bumper. The customer required the bumper to be fitted and removed without risk of damage, plus height and tilt adjustment of the table and height-adjustable lighting. We designed a single universal sonotrode for eight weld points, centring guides for the handheld welder and rubber-lined supports that protect the painted surface.

A checking fixture for verifying that parts are made correctly. Parts are located at points similar to those where they are mounted in the car, and they can be fitted and removed quickly without risk to the part. We developed the fixture concept, fixed and removable supports, centring of parts in all directions and proposed measuring points for dial gauges.

The machine is filled with dry beads and then automatically doses the right amount of agent to impregnate the product.

Throughput: 90,000 beads per hour.
Result: operators no longer need to work with chemicals, and human error in dosing the agent has been reduced.