That is the reason we can tell you which machine fits your job, or tell you that none of them do yet. Every manufacturer will say their robot is the answer. We are paid to be right, not to move units.
We assess the work, pick the machine, deploy it, train it on your floor and run it for one hourly rate. The machine, the labor and the uptime are all in that rate. After two to five years the machine is yours and the rate drops by about a third.
Nine questions, about a minute. This tool returns a negative verdict when the job is not ready for a machine, which happens often. That is the point of it. We would rather lose the enquiry than deploy something that fails on your floor.
One bundled rate against your current loaded cost of labor. Every field is editable and every starting value is a default, not a quote. The arithmetic is printed at the bottom so you can argue with it.
Anyone can put a robot on a floor. Knowing which one, and knowing when the answer is none of them, is what you are actually paying for. Here is what we look at, in order.
We time the actual motions. What gets picked up, from where, how often, how heavy, how varied. A job title tells us nothing. A task that repeats the same way two hundred times a shift tells us everything.
Deformable bags, wet or oily parts, high mix, tight placement, stairs and ramps. We look for the constraint that would make a machine fail before we look for a machine. If the constraint is fatal we stop here and say so.
First the class of machine the work needs: a fixed arm, a two-armed station, something mobile, or transport with no manipulation at all. Only then do we go looking for who builds the best version of that. Not the other way round.
Training happens on your site, on your product, in your lighting, with your people walking past. A machine that works in a supplier demo has proved nothing about your building.
We are not going to show you manufacturer renders. Renders prove that a machine exists, not that it can do your job. These slots hold real footage of real work, with the task named and the cycle time on screen, and they stay empty until that footage exists.
A single complete task from approach to release, no edits, task named and cycle time visible.
A wide shot over a longer stretch, nobody standing next to it, so the real pace is visible.
A missed grasp or a dropped item, then the stop and the restart. If you have sat through automation demos before, this is the clip you actually want.
Unloading, positioning and the first training pass, so you can see what the first day on your site looks like.
The embodiment we are deploying right now is built by Trossen Robotics, a US manufacturer whose arms are used in research labs and universities. That is the machine currently on the floor, and it is the one we know best.
It is not the only one going forward. When a customer's work calls for a different class of machine, or a different builder does that class better, we bring that one in instead. We are not a dealer, we hold no exclusive catalog, and we do not earn more by picking one supplier over another. If we ever do, this section will say so.
We would rather understate this than dress it up. Right now it is one manufacturer in the field and a short list of others we are evaluating.
Payroll gives you a deduction one pay period at a time, forever, and never in advance. Because this agreement ends with you owning the machine, it can be treated as an equipment purchase for tax, and equipment placed in service may qualify for Section 179 or 100% bonus depreciation.
In plain terms: the deduction can land in the year the machine starts working, while your cash goes out over the term. Wages never work that way. It is usually the fastest point to land with an owner or a CFO, and it is the one your accountant will recognise immediately.
Whether it applies to you depends on how your agreement is written, your entity, your state and your taxable income for the year. We will hand your accountant the paperwork and let them make the call.
If the fit check came back positive, you already know more about your own task than most people do when they call us. Send the result through and we will walk one site together. About an hour, and you get a straight answer either way.
Or just email tim@fizzion.ai. No form, no sequence.