One cell for the hot, heavy, high-mix work.
High-heat, high-mix metal work that fixed automation can't justify, run by a cell that reconfigures in software per part.
The work is changing faster than you can staff it.
The dexterous, high-mix, contact-rich jobs are exactly the work classical automation was never built to hold — and the people who used to absorb it are getting harder to find.
Nobody wants the hot jobs
Furnace tending, pouring, and grinding are exactly the dangerous, hot, dirty jobs shops can no longer staff. Turnover is high and rising, and every unfilled shift is capacity left on the floor.
The trade is retiring out
Skilled foundry hands, grinders, and machinists are aging out faster than they can be replaced, taking decades of part-by-part judgment with them and leaving a widening gap on the line.
Heavy industry is reshoring
Casting, forging, and fabrication work is moving back onshore under supply-chain and defense pressure, but only shops that can run high-mix without proportional headcount will hold the new volume.
The contact-rich jobs on a metals & foundry line.
One cell, reconfigured per part — not a new machine for every job on the floor.
Furnace tending
Load charge and extract hot parts from furnaces, presses, and quench stations safely.
Casting removal
Pull castings from molds, shake out, and transfer hot parts to quench.
Gate & riser cutting
Cut gates, risers, and sprues from castings and stage them for finishing.
Grinding & deburring
Grind parting lines, knock down burrs, and blend surfaces to spec on mixed parts.
Deflashing
Remove flash from forgings and castings along seams and trim edges consistently.
Blast tending
Load and unload sand and shot-blast cabinets, cycling parts through surface cleaning.
One cell. Assembly, inspection, finishing.
Qualified off-site. Running in two weeks.
The slow, hard engineering happens on our floor — so the cell arrives tested and dialed in instead of tying up your team for months. A new part is a reconfiguration, not a rebuild.
- 01ScopePart, takt, fixturing, and safety boundary fixed upfront.
- 02Pre-buildCell built and tuned at Relling HQ, not your line.
- 03ConfigureSized and fixtured to your exact part.
- 04QualifyProven safe and capable before it ships.
- 05PilotFirst production run on your line.
- 06ProductionRunning the work, shift after shift.
- 07FleetAdd cells as the work pays for them.
Everything arrives in one qualified unit.
Arm, sensing, tooling, software, and safety, selected for your part and qualified as a set.
Manipulator & end-effector
Arm and tooling selected for your part, qualified as a set.
Closed-loop vision
Finds the part, adjusts in real time, verifies its own work.
Skill library & runtime
A new part is a reconfiguration, not a rebuild.
Safety & technician interface
Guarding sized to your floor, failures explained in plain language.
Will it fit your aisle? Yes.
Representative configuration. Final specs are issued with the proposal.
The Metals & Foundry brief.
A deeper look at the work, the integration path, and how qualification maps to your process. PDF, 2026.
Bring a Relling workcell to your floor.
We started Relling to help American manufacturers make more of what this country needs. We'll scope a single cell to your parts, qualify it before it ships, and stand behind it on your floor.
