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Tasks we are deploying today

We specialise in repeatable tasks. These four are the ones we know best and the ones that reach production fastest. If your process is one of a kind, we'll tell you at the assessment instead of selling it to you.

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Application 01

Palletizing and sack stacking

The end of the line at a sugar mill, a cement plant, a flour mill or a fertiliser producer: 42 to 69 kg sacks that someone lifts, turns and stacks onto a pallet, eight hours a day. It is the heaviest task on the floor, the one with the highest turnover, and the hardest to cover on the second shift. It is also the best fit for an arm: the movement is the same every time and the pallet pattern is fixed.

  • What we measure: sacks per hour, weight, stack height and pallet pattern.
  • Typical product: sugar, cement, flour, coffee, fertiliser and concrete block.
  • Typical equipment: high-payload arm with a sack gripper or vacuum end effector.
  • A good sign: a single line, a single sack format and a stable pallet pattern.
Does your operation look like this?
Application 02

In-line pick & place

Take a part from one point and place it at another, thousands of times per shift, at the pace of the conveyor. It shows up on food, plastics and pharma lines. The problem here is not weight — it is consistency. A person can hold the rhythm for an hour; holding it for eight, shift after shift, is where errors and absenteeism appear.

  • What we measure: parts per minute, travel distance and positional tolerance.
  • Typical sectors: food, plastics and pharmaceuticals.
  • Typical equipment: fast, light-payload arm with a vacuum cup or custom gripper.
  • A good sign: consistent product shape and a repeatable infeed position.
Does your operation look like this?
Application 03

Packing stations

Arranging and boxing at the end of the line: ordering the product, placing it in the carton and leaving it ready to close. It is repetitive standing work paced by production, and it is usually the station with the highest churn. Robotized, the station stops depending on how many people showed up that day.

  • What we measure: cartons per hour, units per carton and packing pattern.
  • Where it shows up: end of line in food, beverage and consumer goods.
  • Typical equipment: medium-payload arm with a multi-part end effector.
  • A good sign: few carton formats and a defined packing pattern.
Does your operation look like this?
Application 04

Robotic welding

Welds that repeat part after part: panels, serial structures, tank shell courses. Here the argument is not only the shift you cannot fill — an experienced welder is hard to hire, and their time is worth more on the work that requires judgement. The repetitive weld goes to the cell; the skilled work stays with your people.

  • What we measure: weld length and position, part repeatability and volume per batch.
  • Typical parts: panels, serial structures and tank shell courses.
  • Typical equipment: welding arm with torch and dedicated fixturing.
  • Programming: by manual teaching with a teach pendant, or offline CAD-CAM from the 3D model.
  • A good sign: the same part in batches, with fixturing that positions it identically every time.
Does your operation look like this?
Before you ask

When we will tell you no

We would rather lose a sale than install a cell that will not work. These are the signals that make us stop during the assessment.

  • The task changes every week

    If the product, format or pattern changes constantly, reprogramming eats the benefit.

  • The work requires human judgement

    Quality inspection by judgement, selection by appearance, or decisions that depend on the case: that is not a robot's job.

  • The volume doesn't support a cell

    If the task only runs a few hours a month, the fee has nothing to be measured against. We will show you that with the numbers in hand.

  • The layout doesn't allow it

    Sometimes there is no room for the cell and its safety envelope without moving the line. If moving the line is not worth it, we say so.

Questions about applications

What people ask about each task

Can stacking 50 kg sacks be robotized?
Yes. Palletizing and sack stacking is the application we deploy most, and we work ranges from 42 to 69 kg across sugar, cement, flour, coffee, fertiliser and concrete block. What decides the fit is not weight alone — the pallet pattern has to be stable and the sack format consistent. We measure that during the technical visit.
Is there industrial robotics service in Guatemala, Central America, Mexico and the United States?
Yes. Robotix installs and operates robotic cells on the plant floor across Guatemala and the Central American region, and we also take on projects in Mexico and the United States. Within Central America the service is local — remote monitoring, preventive maintenance, spare parts held on this side, and on-site response — and that is the difference from importing an automation project from outside the region.
What do I need in my plant to install a cell?
Room for the cell and its safety envelope, plant utilities (power and, depending on the tooling, compressed air), and a repeatable task with defined infeed and outfeed points. Major civil works, if needed, are identified and quoted before signing — never midway through the project.
Does a robotic welding cell work for parts that change?
Yes, and there are two routes depending on how they vary. For parts that change little, or for short batches, we program by manual teaching: we walk the arm through the path with the teach pendant, and the cell memorises and repeats it. For wider part families we use offline CAD-CAM programming: we start from the part's 3D model, generate the path off-line and load it without stopping production. With either method the fixturing still governs — the part has to end up positioned identically every time. If every part is different and a one-off, reprogramming and fixturing eat the benefit, and we say so at the assessment.
How long until a cell is running?
It depends on the tooling that has to be built and the arm required, which is why the timeline is set in the proposal and not before. The process is always the same: assessment, proposal, deposit, integration in our workshop, installation during your shutdown window, and supervised start-up on the floor.
Next step

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