CUT
Laser Automation
Storage towers, automated load/unload, robotic denesting and sorting, and AMR material flow — integrated onto the laser you already own.
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CAPABILITIES
Four capabilities. One continuous flow.
Cut. Deburr. Bend. Inspect. Engineered around the machines you already run.
Most shops don't have an automation problem at one machine — they have a handling problem between all of them. Parts wait on a cart, get moved by hand, get counted twice, and lose hours between operations that each take minutes. We automate the machines and the movement between them, so material flows from raw sheet to finished, inspected part with far less manual handling in between.
THE FLOW
The path a part takes through your shop.
A sheet comes out of storage and onto the laser. Parts come off the cut bed, get their edges finished, get bent to shape, and get verified before they ship or move on to weld and assembly. Every one of those steps is a place where automation removes waiting, lifting, and rework — and every gap between them is a place where an AMR removes a trip across the floor. We engineer the whole path, not one station of it.
DEBURR
Robotic Deburring
FANUC robots running deburring and edge-finishing tools to take burrs and sharp edges off cut parts — consistently, part after part.
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Press-Brake Automation
Robotic tending that turns an attended brake into a lights-out bending cell, retrofit to almost any machine you run today.
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Automated Inspection
Cognex vision that checks sheets and finished parts for defects and dimensional accuracy, in line and without slowing the cell.
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AMR Transport
The material never stops moving.
Between every station, autonomous mobile robots carry the work — lifting cut blanks off the laser, delivering them to the press brake, then ferrying finished parts on to deburring, inspection, and storage before returning to begin again. No forklifts, no manual staging, no parts stranded on a cart waiting for a free set of hands. The AMRs stitch the four stations into one continuous loop, so throughput is governed by the machines — not by how quickly someone can move material between them.
CUT · CAPABILITY 01
Laser Automation
Keep the laser cutting instead of waiting on an operator.
A fiber laser is the fastest machine in most shops and the most often idled by handling. Sheets get walked over by forklift, cut nests sit on the table until someone can clear them, and the machine stops when the shift does. We build the storage, loading, unloading, and part removal around your existing laser — whatever the brand — so it runs buffered, unattended, and through the night.
WHAT WE INTEGRATE
- Automated sheet storage — a tower that buffers raw sheet and cut material and feeds the machine without an operator.
- Automated load / unload — sheets onto the cutting table and finished nests off, tied into your machine's shuttle interface.
- Robotic denesting and sorting — a FANUC robot with vision removes cut parts and sorts them to pallets, totes, or carts.
- Skeleton and scrap handling — engineered removal so the cell keeps cycling.
- Remnant management — partial sheets tracked and returned to storage.
- Unified cell control — Rockwell controls and a FactoryTalk Optix interface coordinate laser, tower, robot, and AMRs as one system.
WHAT IT CHANGES
- Lights-out cutting on buffered material — unattended shifts and weekend running.
- Less direct labor spent on sheet handling, unloading, and sorting.
- Higher machine utilization: the laser cuts instead of waiting.
- Better material control through remnant tracking.
- Less manual lifting of heavy sheet and sharp cut parts.
Works with open, proprietary, and bare-machine interfaces. We classify the integration path during assessment before anything is quoted.
DEBURR · CAPABILITY 02
Robotic Deburring
Consistent edges, without the bench.
Deburring is where good parts go to wait. It's manual, it's slow, it's hard on people, and the result changes with whoever is holding the tool. We mount deburring and finishing tooling on a FANUC robot and program the path off the same geometry the part was cut from — so every edge gets the same treatment, at the same rate, on the first shift and the third.
WHAT WE INTEGRATE
- FANUC-mounted deburring tooling — sized and selected for your material, edge condition, and finish requirement.
- Compliant tooling and force control — so the tool follows the real edge, not just the nominal path.
- Path programming from part geometry — developed offline and validated against real parts.
- Part presentation and fixturing — engineered so parts locate repeatably every cycle.
- Vision-assisted location — where part position varies, Cognex vision finds the edge before the robot touches it.
- Dust and debris management — capture engineered into the cell.
WHAT IT CHANGES
- A repeatable edge finish that doesn't depend on who's working.
- Skilled hands moved off a bench task and onto work that needs them.
- Reduced ergonomic risk and repetitive-strain exposure.
- Deburring stops being the queue that holds up bending and welding.
- Finish quality that can be documented, not just judged.
Part mix, edge condition, and required finish drive tooling selection. We assess your real parts before specifying anything.
BEND · CAPABILITY 03
Press-Brake Automation
Keep the brake bending, not waiting.
Brake tending is heavy, repetitive, and hard to staff — and a brake only earns while the ram is moving. We retrofit robotic tending onto the press brake you already own, matching the robot, gripper, and cell layout to your real part mix. Where the job still calls for a person, the machine stays available for manual work; the cell doesn't take the brake away from you.
WHAT WE INTEGRATE
- Robotic machine tending — a FANUC robot loads blanks, follows the bend, and unloads finished parts.
- End-of-arm tooling — vacuum, magnetic, or hybrid gripping engineered for your part sizes and weights.
- Machine interface integration — our cell controller commands your brake through an open protocol, a signal handshake, or an added interface.
- Blank infeed and finished-part outfeed — staging engineered to keep the cell fed and clear.
- Regripping and part handling — where a bend sequence requires it.
- Safety architecture — guarding, interlocks, and safety-rated control validated to standard.
WHAT IT CHANGES
- Consistent cycle time across a shift, and across shifts.
- Heavy, repetitive lifting removed from the operator.
- Second- and third-shift capacity without second- and third-shift staffing.
- Bend quality that doesn't drift with fatigue.
- A brake that stays available for manual work when the job calls for it.
Part mix and batch size drive the business case. We analyze your actual parts — not idealized drawings — during assessment.
INSPECT · CAPABILITY 04
Automated Inspection
Verify every part, not every tenth one.
Manual inspection is a sampling strategy dressed up as a quality system. It catches what it happens to look at, it's slow, and it can't tell you what it saw six weeks ago. We build Cognex vision into the flow so sheets and finished parts are checked automatically, at rate, with a record behind every result.
WHAT WE INTEGRATE
- Cognex machine vision — cameras, optics, and lighting engineered for your parts and your floor.
- Sheet and part verification — presence, count, feature, and dimensional checks appropriate to the part.
- In-line or at-station inspection — integrated into the cell flow or as a dedicated station.
- Robot- or fixture-presented inspection — parts brought to the camera, or the camera brought to the part.
- Pass / fail handling — automatic routing of good and suspect parts.
- Results and traceability — inspection data captured and available to your systems.
WHAT IT CHANGES
- Every part checked, not a sample.
- Defects caught before they reach weld, assembly, or a customer.
- Inspection that runs at production rate instead of gating it.
- Objective criteria in place of judgment calls.
- A documented quality record you can show a customer or an auditor.
What can be verified depends on the feature, the tolerance, and the surface. We confirm what's achievable on your parts during assessment.
THE CONNECTIVE LAYER
Automation between the machines, not just at them.
Automating a station and then moving its output by forklift solves half the problem. Otto Motors autonomous mobile robots carry sheet to the laser, cut parts to deburring and bending, and finished parts to inspection, weld, or shipping — on a schedule the cells themselves request. No fixed conveyor, no rerouted floor, no forklift trip that a person had to stop and make.
WHAT WE INTEGRATE
- Otto Motors AMR fleet — sized to your sheet weights, part loads, and travel distances.
- Fleet orchestration — routes, docks, traffic rules, and priority handled centrally.
- Cell handshake logic — cells request material and release finished loads automatically.
- Route and safety mapping — engineered around your real aisles, doors, and traffic.
- Charging and docking infrastructure — so the fleet sustains itself across shifts.
WHAT IT CHANGES
- Material arrives when the cell needs it, not when someone is free to bring it.
- Forklift trips and their traffic risk reduced.
- Work-in-process stops accumulating at the machine that finished with it.
- Flow that flexes with your layout instead of being poured into it.
ONE SYSTEM
Four capabilities that behave like one machine.
A cell with a robot, a machine, a camera, and an AMR in it is only automation if all four agree on what's happening. Every DeGama cell runs on a Rockwell Automation control platform with a FactoryTalk Optix operator interface, so your machine, robot, vision, storage, and AMR fleet coordinate through one system — with one place for an operator to look, one alarm scheme to learn, and one safety architecture validated as a whole.
One interface
Operators learn a single HMI, not four vendor screens.
One safety architecture
Machine, robot, laser, and mobile-robot safety validated together, with documented evidence.
One point of accountability
We engineer, program, and commission all of it, so no fault sits in a gap between vendors.
BRAND-AGNOSTIC
We build around your machines, not around ours.
The big machine builders would rather sell you their automation locked to their equipment. That leaves the shop running a mix of brands — or a capable machine bought before automation could be justified — with nowhere to go. We're independent of any one machine maker, which means the cell gets designed to fit your equipment and your part mix, across whatever brands are on your floor today.
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HOW WE DELIVER
Assessed, engineered, and accepted before you own it.
Every capability on this page is delivered through the same gated methodology: an on-site assessment of your machine, parts, and facility; a feasibility call and concept design; a fixed-fee proposal; detailed engineering; an off-site build and a factory acceptance test you witness; installation, commissioning, and a site acceptance test; then training, ramp support, and lifecycle service. Thirteen phases, each ending at a signoff gate you control.
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START HERE
Tell us about the machine you want to automate.
Send us the laser, brake, or line you're running today, and we'll walk you through what a retrofit would look like — starting with an on-site assessment.