ROBOTICS

Adaptability, Dependability, Tight Tolerances

Outsourced Manufacturing for Robotics

While Robotics bears the hallmarks of innovation and explosive growth of a young industry, in many ways the solutions are addressing many of the same problems industries have confronted since time began: how to efficiently and effectively manipulate objects in 3D space safely and at scale. 

Robotics companies are combining centuries of machine-building knowhow with advanced software, and integrating traditional metal materials with various plastics and cutting edge composites to meet modern production demands. 

EMI is experienced working with a huge range of metals, plastics and composites, freeing industry designers to create the best robotics solutions they can imagine. 

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Robotics Industry Applications

Designers in the Robotics industry are tasked with replicating and improving on the millions of ways nature has devised to manipulate, move, hoist, position and protect things that can be rigid or pliable, hard or soft, heavy or as light as a feather. EMI's decades of precision machining experience in both traditional and cutting edge materials supports Robotics companies as they create new solutions to age old problems.

End Use Products

  • Robotic arms & effectors  
  • Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)  
  • Collaborative robots (Cobots)  
  • Warehouse automation
  • Traceability systems  
  • Inspection systems
  • Drive technologies  
  • Positioning systems
  • Electrical & mechanical drives
  • Motion controllers
  • Automation technology
  • Torque control systems
  • Packaging
  • Palletizing

Example Parts We Create

  • Hydraulics & pneumatics
  • Servo motors & amplifiers
  • Lasers
  • Positioners
  • Sensors
  • Actuators
  • Adapters
  • Base components
  • Gearboxes & assemblies
  • Attachment and mounting plates
  • Shoulder, elbow and wrist joints
  • Grippers
  • Chassis, frames & housings
  • Bearing and drive units
  • Safety guards
  • Enclosures 

Custom Manufacturing Process, Materials & Surface Treatments

Whether your core considerations are total strength, strength to weight ratio, flexibility or rigidity, durability, suitability for corrosive or other environments, or something else, EMI brings a wide array of CNC precision manufacturing services to bear, with tolerances as tight as ±0.0001″ (±0.00254 mm). 

Manufacturing Processes

To support an endless array of manufacturing goals, Defense manufacturers needs are as diverse as the day is long. Here are some of the services we provide:

(click each for info about part sizes, weights and tolerances)

Click here for a more complete list of EMI's MANUFACTURING PROCESSES.

Materials

Defense industry designers specify a huge range of metallic, plastic and composite materials. EMI is capable of machining a great many of these, including (but not limited to):

  • Stainless Steel & Carbon Steel
  • Titanium
  • Aluminum
  • Molybdenum
  • Specialty alloys (AlBeMet, Invar, Kovar, etc.)
  • Plastics (PEEK, Delrin, Ultem, etc.)
  • Composites (Fiberglass Laminates, Carbon and Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers, Metal and Ceramic Matrix Composites)

Click here for a more complete list of MATERIALS EMI machines.

Surface Treatments

For Surface Finishing, whether your needs are tactile, emissivity control, lubricity, conductivity, corrosion resistance, color or something else, EMI delivers a diverse range of finishing solutions:

  • Anodizing
  • Electroplating
  • Electroless Plating
  • Passivation
  • Chem Films
  • Laser Marking, Silk Screening, Pad Printing
  • Paint, Powder Coating
  • Deburring
  • Media Blasting
  • Knurling
  • Polishing

Our capabilities include surface roughness to 8 Ra and #4 finish for grained direction parts.

Click here for a more complete list of EMI's SURFACE FINISHING options.

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Value-Added Services

Quality Considerations

EMI is ISO 9001:2015 certified and ITAR registered, so quality assurance is built into everything we do. Using the latest testing and metrology equipment EMI performs in-process and finished article inspection, testing and verification activities our temperature controlled quality lab. And we provide traceability documentation and results certification as dictated by our customers business and regulatory needs.

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Responsive Service & Support

It takes great service and support to deliver the great products our customer's customers deserve. In order to serve you best EMI delivers highly responsive service and open two-way communications backed by a relentless focus on on-time delivery to support your supply chain needs.

"More than Parts, Partnership" is our brand promise and it permeates everything we do to serve you.

Testimonials

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Why EMI?

Choosing the right outsourcing partner for your precision manufacturing needs can be the difference between success or failure for a given project. The question is how to choose.

The answer is to optimize for the right relationship. Choose a partner that supports your supply chain needs by delivering responsive service, open two-way communications, and on-time delivery.

For more than a half-century and continuing to this day, EMI always seeks to co-create the right relationship by prioritizing our partners' success.

Our Promise:

“More than Parts, Partnership”

Contact us today to start building the right relationship.

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