Special Purpose Machinery (SPM) solves problems that standard equipment cannot. Design & Build for Special Purpose Machinery (SPM) equips your engineering teams to turn that requirement into a custom automation cell, assembly station, robotic workcell, or complete production line, engineered specifically for your process, not adapted from someone else’s.
Design & Build for SPM brings together machine architecture, fixture tooling, mechatronic systems and robotic cells, the elements that turn a requirement into a buildable machine. Machine architecture defines the technical concept: station sequences, motion philosophy, tooling strategy and safety envelope. Fixture tooling, mechatronic systems and robotic cells translate that concept into a machine that is operable, serviceable and installable by design.
The result: a machine built right for your process from day one, that commissions reliably and stays serviceable across its lifecycle.
Define technical concepts for production readiness
Machine Architecture captures customer requirements and turns them into a practical, buildable technical concept before detailed design begins. We develop machine layouts, station sequences, motion concepts, tooling strategies, automation approaches, safety envelopes, operator workflows and utility architectures so the solution is operable, serviceable and installable.
Early architectural work exposes integration risks and trade‑offs between manual, semi‑automatic and fully automated options. By validating flow, access, safety and cycle‑time implications up front, we prevent machines that are mechanically complete but difficult to run, unsafe to maintain or unable to meet production targets.
Quantify targets for speed, cycle time, payload, uptime, part variation and operator interaction.
Define each station’s role: loading, clamping, processing, inspection, rejection, unloading, rework.
Map product, part, operator, robot and maintenance flows to prevent conflicts and bottlenecks.
Produce layout options for standalone machines, cells, multi‑station systems, indexers and transfer lines.
Specify power, air, hydraulics, pneumatics, vacuum, coolant, lubrication, extraction and network interfaces.
Set preliminary guarding, access, interlock, light‑curtain, scanner and safe‑maintenance arrangements.
Compare manual, semi‑auto, full‑auto, robotic, servo, pneumatic, hydraulic and cam solutions.
Assembly Machines | Automation Cells | Special-purpose Production Lines | Rotary Indexing Machines | Robotic Cells | Test Rigs | Material Handling Systems | Custom Production Equipment