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Illustrative case notes from the commissioning floor.

These summaries describe past RoboShift Lab engagements. Metrics are historical and context-specific — not guarantees for your line, SKU mix or staffing model.

Beverage palletizing cell after RoboShift Lab layer-pattern retune

Case note · BC beverage packager

Palletizer layer drift on mixed case heights

A Richmond beverage client ran a single-axis palletizer that dropped cases when promotional carton heights exceeded the programmed layer table. Vendor support proposed a full controller swap. RoboShift Lab measured actual case dimensions across twelve SKUs, rebuilt layer patterns with dynamic height offsets, added slip-sheet detection interlocks and retrained three shift leads on recovery without homing the entire stack.

Illustrative outcome: unplanned stack collapses fell from several per week to zero over a ninety-day observation window on the retuned patterns. Throughput improved modestly once conveyors stopped waiting for manual clears.

Scope: assessment, reprogramming, on-site SAT · ~C$24,000

Case note · Medical assembly

Force-limited insert station for stainless housings

A Burnaby medical-device manufacturer struggled with cracked housings when pneumatic presses applied uniform force to slightly oval castings. RoboShift Lab designed a collaborative-arm insert sequence with six-axis force monitoring, compliant search moves and automatic abort when insertion curves left the validated band. We delivered EOAT, robot programs, PLC fault mapping and IQ/OQ documentation templates aligned with the client's quality team.

Illustrative outcome: scrap on the insert station moved from roughly 4.1% to under 0.9% across four production lots during validation — results not promised for other materials or operators.

Scope: EOAT, integration, validation support · ~C$38,500

Pick-and-place cell with force monitoring for medical assembly

Case note · Regional integrator partnership

EOAT library for produce grading line

An integrator serving Okanagan packhouses needed soft-finger tooling that handled stone fruit without bruising and switched quickly between clamshell formats. RoboShift Lab prototyped three vacuum-assisted finger sets, ran grasp tests on client-supplied fruit samples in our Vernon Drive studio and delivered CAD packages with maintenance swap procedures. The integrator retained ownership of robot motion; we owned tooling repeatability evidence.

Illustrative outcome: bruise rejects reported by the client dropped in their internal QA logs during the first harvest season after deployment — a single-season snapshot, not a perpetual warranty.

Scope: tooling design, prototype, documentation · ~C$19,800

Case note · Warehouse operator

Depalletizing cell coordination with WMS signals

A Lower Mainland warehouse operator's depalletizing cell stalled when WMS release timing drifted from PLC expectations, causing double-picks and gripper crashes. RoboShift Lab mapped signal handshakes, added explicit timeout faults, redesigned approach paths for mixed pallet qualities and trained maintenance on I/O tracing. No new robot capital was required.

Illustrative outcome: unplanned gripper maintenance calls decreased over a six-month client log — exact figures vary with pallet supplier quality.

Scope: controls audit, reprogramming, training · ~C$16,200

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