Oxford Industrial Automation
Industrial robot and cobot systems for UK manufacturers

Robots & cobots.Built to improve your production.

Tell us the product, task and target output. We engineer the complete automation cell around your production process—from robot selection and tooling to controls, safeguarding, installation and training.

Matched to your productComplete tooling & controlsInstalled & commissioned
20reference platforms
3–300 kgrobot payload range
One partnerconcept to handover
Robots & collaborative robots

Start with your process.
We specify the right automation.

You do not need to choose the robot first. We review your product, required rate, available space, interaction with operators and upstream or downstream equipment, then define the most suitable robot or cobot cell.

Industrial robots

Speed, reach and payload for automated cells.

Six-axis, SCARA, parallel and palletising robots for enclosed or safeguarded production cells requiring repeatable output and demanding duty cycles.

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Collaborative robots / cobots

Flexible automation for suitable collaborative applications.

Compact robot platforms for light handling, packaging, assembly and machine support where the complete application and risk assessment support collaborative operation.

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Complete cell delivery

One project.
Every part connected.

We coordinate the robot, end-of-arm tooling, product handling, sensing, controls, machine interfaces and safeguarding so your team has one clear route from concept to production handover.

01 / UNDERSTAND

Your production

Product, rate, formats, current process, site constraints and operator requirements.

02 / ENGINEER

The complete cell

Robot, tooling, motion path, fixtures, vision, controls, safety and layout.

03 / PROVE

Build and test

Integration, programming, dry testing, product trials and issue closure before deployment.

04 / DEPLOY

Production handover

Installation, commissioning, acceptance, training and support planning.

Show us the process you want to automate.

Send product details, photos or video, required output and available space. We will define the next technical step.

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Industrial robot or cobot: compare complete cells for the same task

Start with the product and required operation, then compare the equipment that makes the whole cell work. Arm payload and purchase price do not describe the complete production result.

Use one common application brief

Keep the item range, tooling assumptions, pickup and placement positions, output target and production schedule the same across proposals. Identify uncertain handling or process steps for a focused automation feasibility study before committing to a platform.

Palletising: include the stack and pallet exchange

For cobot palletising, review package mass with the tooling, the full stack envelope and the proposed operator interaction. Compare an industrial palletising route where the required work envelope, load or rate calls for it. Include pallet removal and replenishment in the operating plan.

Keep depalletising as a separate handling problem

Removing products from an incoming pallet adds uncertainty about the arrival pattern, layer position and item condition. Use the depalletising application review to define the incoming variation and the presentation required by the receiving line.

Build the cycle from the operation sequence

Allocate time for approach, grip confirmation, transfer, release, inspection and machine handshakes. Include waiting and recovery assumptions. The cycle-time planning tool supports an initial budget; representative trials must establish the final performance.

Agree the boundary of a delivered cell

Record tooling, fixtures, sensing, controls, guarding, installation, training and acceptance scope alongside the robot selection. Have the complete application assessed for the intended operating mode; selecting a cobot does not by itself establish a safe collaborative task.

Include recovery work in an automation feasibility study

Name the ordinary exceptions

List an empty component supply, a mis-presented part, an unavailable receiving machine and a failed quality check. For each event, identify which item the robot holds, where work in progress remains and what information an operator needs. These conditions can shape the feeder, fixture and software scope even when the normal motion is straightforward.

Keep product identity through an interrupted cycle

If a cycle stops between pickup and release, the system needs an agreed way to establish which step was completed and which product record applies. Discuss whether the part can safely resume, must be removed under the approved procedure or needs reinspection. A generic reset button is not a complete recovery strategy.

Assess the accessible and serviceable layout

Review replenishment, tooling changes and maintenance positions alongside the production envelope. Changes to access or operating mode need competent machinery-safety assessment; do not treat a slow-motion trial or a collaborative robot label as permission for people to enter a hazardous area. The equipment instructions and approved procedures govern interventions.

Use recovery evidence to compare concepts

Ask how an authorised operator identifies a fault, restores the agreed condition and confirms that product can be released again. Include training, diagnostic information and the record of unresolved actions in the acceptance scope. Start with the feasibility study, then use the cycle-time planner with stated interruption assumptions.

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