Services
Three areas. Two routes. One line of responsibility. We guide you from the first idea to an order-ready quotation — and, if you wish, through delivery as well.
TNIA develops automation concepts and requirements specifications on an hourly or daily basis — independent of suppliers and system vendors.
Two routes to the goal
Both routes run through the same four stages. Where you join depends on how far along you already are.
Route A · Concept development
Analysis, concept, optional requirements specification and project support. Billed on an hourly or daily basis. This is our core competence.
Route B · Sourcing a quotation
We make a referral from our Trusted Network and make sure you receive a qualified quotation. No TNIA fee for you.
Analysis of production processes and identification of automation opportunities — on site, in conversation with your team, prioritised by cost-effectiveness.
Assessment of suitable automation technologies for your specific task. Robots, pneumatics, feeding systems, sensors — what fits which application.
Joint analysis and development of automation strategies — facilitated, structured, with your production and engineering team.
Assessment of existing processes and identification of improvements — including where you may have become blind to your own routine.
Example · Precious metal industry
Cell 1 handles weighing and lasering, cell 2 the secure overpacking — connected by a conveyor. A palletiser and depalletiser keep the precious metal products stored safely.
Definition of technical requirements for automation solutions — together with you on request, or independently. Precise enough that machine builders can submit comparable quotations.
Technical and commercial assessment of possible solutions — before money goes into a system that later turns out to be the wrong call.
Development of concrete system and automation concepts — covering every relevant trade: conveyor technology, robotics, feeding, controls, switchgear.
Creation of system layouts and material flow concepts — how the system fits physically into your hall, how material and operators move.
Example · Consumer goods / beverages
The first SCARA removes bottles from standard crates, a circulating conveyor guides them past a camera inspection, the second SCARA transfers them into special crates. Delivered with RoBotos Engineering.
From practice
The same task, four ways to get there. Each stage costs more and can do more — which one is right depends on volumes, variants and the money that actually pays off. That is exactly what we work out together, before anyone writes a quotation.
The cobot sits on a wheeled frame and can be moved to wherever it is needed. Workpieces arrive via a step-lift conveyor and a belt system.
The cobot is mounted on a fixed base frame, with a pallet station alongside. The material buffer is loaded by hand — after that the cell runs on its own for a good while.
The workpieces lie loose in bins, in no particular order. A camera identifies them and the cobot picks them out one by one. That removes the entire pre-sorting step — finished parts go onto the pallet.
The buffer now runs on a conveyor carrying bins of loose parts, again identified by camera. Cobot 1 distributes the workpieces to trays on the left and right; cobots 2 and 3 take them from there and load their machine. Finished parts go onto the pallet.
Which stage gets built in the end is not decided by preference but by a weighted assessment — cost-effectiveness, cycle time, changeover effort, expandability.
Coordination of quotations from different providers — made comparable, gaps identified, risks assessed. You get a solid basis for your decision.
Selection of suitable automation partners from the TNIA Trusted Network. Only partners we have already delivered projects with.
Support during planning and delivery — as an independent advisor who meets your supplier as a technical equal.
Modernisation and optimisation of existing systems — controls, mechanics, sensors, safety technology. Assessed technically and commercially: buy new or retrofit?
Example · Intralogistics / assembly
A cobot unfolds KLT bins and places them on the conveyor, three production systems fill them, a palletising robot stacks them on Euro pallets. Conveyor technology by ALTRATEC, orchestrated by TNIA.
What we work on
A line rarely consists of a single step. Usually it is several in sequence — and what decides the outcome is which of them pay off, in what order they run and which combination fits together technically.
Extraction
Filling
Loading
Marking
Brushing
Deburring
Unloading
Labelling
Conveying
Joining
Code reading
Measuring
Assembly
Optimising
Palletising
Inspection
Cleaning
Welding
Safeguarding
Control
Testing
Linking
Packaging
Turning
Your process is not listed? That does not mean it cannot be done. Give us a call and we will look at it together.
Who builds it in the end
At the end there is a line in your hall — built by partners from our network. Selected for who fits your task, not for who happens to have capacity. Robotics, conveying, special machine building, machine vision, simulation, safety technology.
Then we coordinate. You have one point of contact, even when four companies are building the line — and you don't have to mediate when two of them disagree about an interface.
Then we make the introduction — to the right person, not to the switchboard. We know who handles your kind of task at which partner, and how they work.
See all partners → You receive no invoice from us for the referral.
What you end up with
Route B · for the advanced case
If your requirements specification is already finished, there is no need to buy the concept work from us again. We listen to your requirements, select the right partner from our Trusted Network and make sure a qualified quotation reaches you. This matching service carries no TNIA fee for you — we are remunerated through the partner.
We'll work it out together in an initial consultation. 30 minutes, no obligation, honest — even if the conclusion is that we are not the right partner.
