Field notes and engineering

Written on the shop floor

Field Notes

August 26, 2026

Retrofitting a robot into a line that cannot stop

Most of our installs happen on equipment that is already making parts. The work is planned backwards from the moment the line has to run again.

8 min read

Robot arm working a part inside a guarded station, sparks falling below the tooling

Close-up of a pneumatic gripper head with its jaws open

August 12, 2026

What a thousand-cycle test actually tells you

7 min read

Cutting head working across sheet metal on a machine bed

July 29, 2026

Placement tolerance is inherited from the next station

6 min read

Six-axis robot and vacuum tooling mounted inside a framed work cell

July 15, 2026

What ISO 10218 asks of an end-of-arm tool

7 min read

Overhead and floor-level conveyors running the length of a production hall

July 1, 2026

Sizing transfer rail against the slowest station

6 min read

Collaborative robot arm fitted with a vacuum suction cup end-effector

June 17, 2026

Vacuum or jaws: choosing how to hold a part

7 min read

Digital micrometer measuring the thickness of a steel section

June 3, 2026

What to send us before we ask for a number

6 min read

Technician in work gloves reaching into an open machine control cabinet

May 20, 2026

Fitting a changeover inside a shift break

6 min read

Red stop button on the control panel of an industrial machine

May 6, 2026

Guarding that operators will not work around

7 min read