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Workcell applications where Sancho runs today
From automotive trim lines to electronics test cells, Sancho handles the cross-vendor coordination so your engineers handle the process. Each vertical has a distinct protocol mix and sequencing requirement.
Automotive Assembly
Body-in-white lines with FANUC and KUKA side by side
Automotive Tier 1s run FANUC welding arms next to KUKA press-tending robots. Integration contracts are costly and fragile. When a controller firmware update ships, the glue code breaks.
Sancho's automotive connector pair abstracts both controller families into a shared job schema. Welding sequences and press-tending cycles share one scheduling queue, with alarm propagation across both vendor domains. When KUKA or FANUC releases a firmware update, the connector absorbs the change, not your production code.
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Electronics Manufacturing
PCB and SMT lines with UR cobots and Siemens PLCs
High-mix electronics lines need frequent changeover. Each changeover requires re-coordination between UR cobots, conveyors driven by Siemens PLCs, and optical inspection cameras. Manual re-integration takes days, not hours.
Sancho's UR-RTDE connector and Siemens S7 driver share an event bus. When a changeover triggers, the AI scheduler pushes updated routing rules to both the robot arm and the PLC simultaneously. Changeover coordination that took a full shift now runs in under an hour.
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Welding Cells
KUKA welding arms and ABB positioners on different timebases
Welding cells commonly pair a KUKA welding arm with an ABB positioner or a rotary table. KUKA RSI (Robot Sensor Interface) and ABB EGM (External Guide Motion) each operate on their own real-time cycle. Synchronizing them without a dedicated bridge layer means timing errors that show up as weld seam drift under load.
Sancho's welding cell bridge aligns the RSI and EGM cycle clocks and exposes a single synchronization endpoint to the cell controller. The KUKA arm and ABB positioner handoff through one coordinated event sequence rather than two independent control loops. When one side reports a fault, the other side pauses before it becomes a scrap event.
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Palletizing and Intralogistics
UR and FANUC palletizers sharing a conveyor PLC without zone conflicts
Mixed-vendor palletizing cells with UR and FANUC arms sharing a conveyor line have a specific problem: each robot's safety controller issues its own zone occupancy signals. Without a shared arbitration layer, both controllers can claim the same conveyor section simultaneously, triggering E-stops that halt the entire line.
Sancho's intralogistics profile includes a zone arbitration layer that serializes occupancy requests from both robot controllers through a single conveyor PLC signal. The UR arm and the FANUC arm each see a normalized zone-clear signal from Sancho rather than reading each other's safety outputs directly. Zone conflicts that previously required manual reset are handled automatically at the orchestration layer.
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