Our engineering experience comes from inside an Illinois automation integrator, material handling and robotic work cells for manufacturers, across aerospace, automotive and general industry. Client work stays confidential, so what is below is the approach rather than the projects: the constraints that actually decide whether a subassembly works on the floor.
Vacuum, pneumatic and mechanical EOAT for machine tending and transfer.
Locating and clamping that holds tolerance at rate.
Singulating parts into a repeatable pick position.
Moving product between operations at cycle.
Welded and extrusion structures, hard guarding, access panels.
Taking an existing model to a release set.
Vacuum, pneumatic and mechanical EOAT for machine tending and transfer. What we watch: payload and moment at the wrist with every gripper loaded, not the nominal case, plus gripper force against part finish, and whether the tool still clears the chuck at full stroke.
Locating and clamping that holds tolerance at rate. What we watch: the datum scheme first, because a nest referencing the wrong feature holds beautifully and still hands the robot a part in the wrong place, then chip and coolant escape, and whether an operator can load it wrong.
Singulating parts into a repeatable pick position. What we watch: the jam case, not the run case. Gravity feeds fail on the part that arrives tilted, so geometry that cannot accept a bad orientation beats a sensor that detects one.
Moving product between operations at cycle. What we watch: accumulation behaviour when the downstream station stops, which is the situation the line spends its bad days in, plus drive sizing with a real friction number rather than an optimistic one.
Welded and extrusion structures, hard guarding, access panels. What we watch: maintenance access before aesthetics, deflection at the point that matters rather than at mid-span, and panel sizes a two-person crew can actually lift into place.
Taking an existing model to a release set. What we watch: tolerances tightened only where function needs them, because over-toleranced drawings are how a $400 bracket happens, and long-lead items flagged in week one rather than discovered in week six.
Send an existing model, get a written review back in two days: DFM, sourcing risk and failure modes, written up as a one-page memo you can hand to the person who drew it.
