Finding New Ways To Forge Ahead

Promation has its own material lab for research, quality control and to support our 3D robotic printers development. Our lab is supplemented by a state-of-the-art multi-scale additive manufacturing lab at the University of Waterloo with high-level, material-scientific characterization capabilities. We can print and test prototype parts.

The cornerstone of our machine vision practice, our Vision and Scanning Lab is used both for training and strengthening our internal teams and for demonstrating vision processes for our customers. The lab offers an opportunity to set up a real-world challenge and allows Promation to innovate a solution and undertake proof-of-concept studies, without shutting down your assembly line. The Vision and Scanning Lab lets us test the challenging applications for lighting, lensing, filtering and material surface, as well as scanning that may be critical for the accurate solution.

Widely used by our clients, the Robotics Lab helps us to investigate challenging robotic applications even before starting a commercial project for our customers. The lab’s purpose is to increase the accuracy of our solution for customers. We can test industrial robots for accuracy, precision, collaborative interaction with operators; and we can check the effectiveness of the end-of-arm tooling, which is always custom designed for a specific job. This lab gives us a better opportunity to learn and adopt the newest techniques in industrial robotics.

The Nuclear Lab is very critical for finding and proving solutions, especially in applications requiring long-term development. The lab creates tests and simulations to de-risk these concerns; and tests are carried out in a controlled environment, which may involve a Clean Room or Secure Access Room. In areas where a high level of catastrophe occurs when systems fail, an exceptional level of focus needs to be the execution of real-world trials to ensure that safety and compliance is adhered to, by:

•  Creating tooling and trials in our lab-focused system
•  Executing tasks through robotic and manual manipulators in hot cell mock-up
•  Performing activity-specific studies using an abundance of technologies
•  Conducting trial-and-error training exercises for implementation in risk environments

The Aerospace & Defence Lab has common capabilities with the Nuclear Lab in terms of a controlled environment. In addition, Control Goods can be applied if required by the project. We develop and prove our specific solutions for the industry, applying rigorous tests systems and tooling developed by Promation for our customers.