The line stays fed. The crew stays.

01

Cobot or a fenced industrial arm - which fits your cell

A cobot works right next to your team without a cage, hand-guides to teach a new task, and redeploys in hours - the right fit for lighter, changing work at a station. A traditional industrial arm needs a fenced cell but runs heavier and faster on a fixed job. Most plants end up mixing both across a floor. Our Industrial Arms & Cobots page has the full deploy-and-service picture; our cobots-vs-industrial-arms comparison lays the decision out side by side.

02

Buy it or lease it

A cell, a fleet of AMRs, or a scrubber can land as one capital hit or a monthly line item - your CFO picks the structure. Financing without a large up-front project is why a single line, or a whole plant, can automate now instead of waiting on next year’s capital budget. We surface the buy-vs-lease math for your equipment mix in a quote; cobot and arm pricing in particular is set per cell, not published, because payload, tooling, and integration change it too much for a rate card.

03

The case for automating the line

The payback on a plant floor is driven by the roles you cannot fill and the tasks that hurt people, not just a labor rate. Machine tending, palletizing, and packing wear people out and cause injuries; moving parts between cells eats labor and creates bottlenecks; a missed defect is expensive after it ships. A robot that takes that work back gives those hours to the jobs that need judgment and takes the most injury-prone motion off your people.

Cobot and arm pricing is set per cell - payload, tooling, and integration change it too much to publish a rate. What we can say plainly: financing (buy or lease) means a line does not have to land as one capital project, and running multiple plants means one partner carries integration and uptime risk everywhere instead of a different vendor per site.

• Payback drivers: hard-to-fill roles, injury-risk reduction, fewer missed defects, less line downtime.
• Cobot/arm pricing is quoted per cell - not a published rate card.
• Financing (buy, lease, monthly) avoids one large capital hit.
• These are illustrative framings, not a guaranteed result - see a quote for your line.

04

Why a plant should automate through an integrator, not a bare OEM

An arm, an AMR, and an inspection unit are three different OEMs, plus a safety sign-off, plus financing, plus whoever fixes it at 2am when a line stops. Stitching that together and owning the downtime risk is a heavy lift for a plant that already has a line to run.

Service Robot Co. is the one vendor for all of it, and OEM-neutral about which unit. We select the mix - cobots for stations, AMRs and forklifts for material flow, inspection for quality - model the cell before we build it, finance it, deploy alongside a running line, train your operators, and service it nationwide. Running several plants? We standardize the same program across every site, with one partner carrying integration and uptime risk everywhere.