The Robotic Integrator for Complex End-of-Line Material Handling
QComp designs, builds, and installs custom robotic systems for products too flexible, fragile, or inconsistent for an off-the-shelf automation cell.
What a Robotic Integrator Does
A robotic integrator designs, programs, and installs the system that goes around a robot — the end-of-arm tooling, the vision, the controls, and the software that make it work on your line. Robot manufacturers build the arm; the integrator is the company that turns that arm into a working solution for your specific product and needs.
QComp integrates for one purpose: end-of-line material handling. Picking, packing, palletizing, and depalletizing — the point in your process where a finished or semi-finished product has to be moved, oriented, packed, or stacked. We don't build welding cells, general assembly lines, or paint automation. We build systems for products that are hard to automate: large sheets of fragile glass, nonwoven products, flexible film, and raw product that arrives soft or dimensionally different every time.
If your product doesn't fit a catalog robot cell, that's the project we take.
Why Certification Matters
Certification matters because it's proof that comes from somewhere other than us.
QComp has been A3-certified by the Association for Advancing Automation since 2012, when its Certified Robot Integrator Program first launched. That certification comes from a third-party audit of our project management, safety processes, and technical capability, not a claim we make about ourselves. Our engineers, technicians, and programmers are re-audited every two years to keep it. Read more about why A3 certification matters.
We’ve been an ABB Authorized Value Provider since 1997, the third company in the world to join the program. Value Providers go through an initial audit of technical capability and an annual review, and ABB stands behind that status when it recommends integrators to its own customers. Read about our ABB Value Provider history.
We’re also a FANUC Authorized System Integrator, a designation FANUC extends to integrators whose engineering and programming staff it has trained and certified on its robots and controls.
None of the three credentials is required to call yourself a robotic integrator. They’re the difference between a company telling you it’s safe and reliable, and three independent organizations that have checked it.
Applications
We’ve built our reputation solving specific material handling problems for demanding applications, including:
Fragile Glass Handling
Large, thin glass sheets break if a robot grips them wrong. Too little vacuum and the sheet slips and cracks. QComp has run robotic glass handling systems on production glass lines since 2006, and glass is the application we’ve built more systems for than any other.
Non-Woven Products
Wet wipe lines need a conveyor, a glue applicator, and a quality control station, all timed off the same encoder, then reprogrammed by SKU when pack size or lid design changes. We’ve built lidding cells running 75 to 90 picks per minute without new hardware for each new product size.
See how QComp automated wet wipe lidding at 90 picks per minute →
Flexible Packaging
Pouches can be light enough that air pressure alone shifts them off target mid-pick. We’ve engineered gripper and vision systems for a global flexible packaging producer that hold the product steady through the pick and place.
See how QComp solved flexible bag placement without new hardware →
Multi-SKU Lines
Some manufacturers run several package sizes, carton configurations, and pallet patterns through one line, with product that can’t sit and almost no room for changeover delay. We’ve built systems that handle every configuration without taking time out of production.
Raw, Inconsistent Product
Some raw product is soft, tacky, and a slightly different shape every time, which defeats standard vision-guided picking. We’ve programmed systems that adjust pick point and grip pressure product by product, at line speed.
Fragile Glass Handling
Large, thin glass sheets break if a robot grips them wrong. Too little vacuum and the sheet slips and cracks. QComp has run robotic glass handling systems on production glass lines since 2006, and glass is the application we’ve built more systems for than any other.
Non-Woven Products
Wet wipe lines need a conveyor, a glue applicator, and a quality control station, all timed off the same encoder, then reprogrammed by SKU when pack size or lid design changes. We’ve built lidding cells running 75 to 90 picks per minute without new hardware for each new product size.
See how QComp automated wet wipe lidding at 90 picks per minute →
Flexible Packaging
Pouches can be light enough that air pressure alone shifts them off target mid-pick. We’ve engineered gripper and vision systems for a global flexible packaging producer that hold the product steady through the pick and place.
See how QComp solved flexible bag placement without new hardware →
Multi-SKU Lines
Some manufacturers run several package sizes, carton configurations, and pallet patterns through one line, with product that can’t sit and almost no room for changeover delay. We’ve built systems that handle every configuration without taking time out of production.
Raw, Inconsistent Product
Some raw product is soft, tacky, and a slightly different shape every time, which defeats standard vision-guided picking. We’ve programmed systems that adjust pick point and grip pressure product by product, at line speed.
QComp Solutions
QComp utilizes advanced modular designs as the fundamental building blocks for our custom automation solutions, delivering industry-leading ROI.
Glass Handling
End-of-line racking, boxing, and crating built around vacuum tooling calibrated to sheet size and thickness
Palletizing and Depalletizing
High-speed stacking and unstacking for cases, bags, and mixed-SKU pallets, including layer patterns and slip-sheet handling
Pick and Place
Vision-guided picking for products that don't arrive in a fixed position or orientation
Case Packing
Robotic loading, closing, and sealing for cartons and cases, including continuous-motion lines
Cobots
Collaborative robots for lower-volume or space-constrained applications where a full industrial cell isn't the right fit
Customer Proof Points
They find a solution, work with you to fix whatever’s going on, whether it’s program updates or a change to their programming, or possible solutions as far as mechanicals go. A big part of their value is in the design of the tools and making it work with the customer application.”
— Maintenance Technician
I had two other robotic integrators providing us solutions as well. I think what really led us to decide to pick QComp was the thoroughness and completeness of the solution they proposed.”
— Sr. Principal Engineer
Their programmer was extremely engaged and committed and spent multiple hours, days over the weekend changing some of his programs to get this right. And they were on schedule.”
— Operations Director
Have a Material Handling Problem
That Doesn’t Fit a Standard Cell?
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FAQs
A robotic integrator designs, programs, and installs a working robotic system for a specific application. Integrators select or build the end-of-arm tooling, vision, and controls, and integrate them with a manufacturer's existing line. Robot manufacturers like ABB and FANUC build the arms; integrators like QComp make them work for a specific product and line.
A robot arm on its own can't do anything. It needs tooling to grip the product, vision to locate it, programming to move correctly, and controls to talk to the rest of the line. An integrator designs, builds, tests, and installs all of that. This is work most manufacturers don't have the in-house engineering to do themselves.
Yes. QComp has been A3-certified by the Association for Advancing Automation since 2012, an ABB Authorized Value Provider since 1997, and is a FANUC Authorized System Integrator.
We take on products most integrators pass on, such as fragile glass, nonwoven products, inconsistent raw product, and multi-SKU lines with almost no downtime margin. That's been our focus for more than 30 years, and every proof point on this page comes from a customer with exactly that kind of problem.