Force-controlled finishing on edges that never match.
Force-controlled edge following, deburring, sanding, polishing, and dispensing on high-mix parts, reconfigured in software per part number.
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.
Off the dirtiest jobs
Finishing is loud, dusty, and injury-prone, and it is the hardest station to staff. Automating it pulls people out of airborne silica and metal dust and away from the repetitive grinding that drives shoulder and wrist injury.
Finish that holds spec
Hand finishing drifts with operator skill, fatigue, and shift. Force-controlled cells apply the same pressure, feed, and dwell every cycle, so edge break and surface quality stay inside spec instead of varying part to part.
Safety the floor can audit
Dust, silica, and noise carry real regulatory and health exposure. Enclosed cells with tool-level extraction contain the hazard and log what they did, turning an OSHA liability into a controlled, repeatable, documented process.
What the service covers.
One cell, reconfigured per part — not a new machine for every job on the floor.
Edge deburring
Remove sharp edges and raised burrs from machined, stamped, and laser-cut part perimeters.
Weld grinding
Grind down and blend weld beads flush to surrounding base material and contour.
Surface sanding
Sand flats and contoured faces to uniform roughness ahead of paint or coating.
Polishing & buffing
Polish and buff metal and composite surfaces to specified gloss or finish standard.
Flash & gate removal
Trim molding flash and cut gate stubs from cast and molded parts.
Edge blending
Blend ground, cut, and machined transitions into smooth uninterrupted surface profiles.
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 Finishing & Deburring 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.
