Business areas

Smart Factories

Advanced robotics, automation and digitalisation solutions to optimise industrial processes and develop more efficient, flexible and intelligent production systems.

CADE designs, develops and implements automation, robotics and digitalisation solutions for workstations, process lines and complete production processes, and acts as an industrial technologist when the solution does not yet exist on the market.

Manufacturers that need to gain capacity or free their staff from repetitive tasks, plants with welding, handling or palletising operations that cannot be solved with standard solutions, and companies that want to develop their own technology and validate it in the Innovation Factory before taking it to the plant.

Clients

Equipment manufacturersBoilermaking workshopsProduction managersIntegratorsManufacturing industry

Sectors

Equipment and boilermakingFood and agri-industryAutomotive and componentsPlasticsSteel structuresEnd-of-line and logistics

Services

Automation, robotics and digitalisation

We always start from the real process: which operations are worth automating, how the new system integrates with equipment from different periods and manufacturers, and what data is needed to control it.

Industrial automation

We design and integrate the automation of workstations, process lines and complete production processes, adapted to the existing line, to gain capacity and reduce ergonomic risks.

Workstations
Process lines
Production processes

Advanced robotics

Robotic welding with machine vision for variable parts and short series, and collaborative robotics for machine loading and unloading, with technology developed by CADE.

Industrial digitalisation

Real-time process data to detect deviations before they affect quality: we implement monitoring and control systems and develop digital twins of equipment and processes.

Digital twins
Monitoring and control

Own technology

Robotics developed by CADE

Two robotics technologies developed by CADE.

SRW · Smart Robotic Welding

Technology developed by CADE to automate welding processes. It integrates a robotic arm and a machine vision system that recognises the joint and tracks it in space, adapting the torch stand-off and angles in real time and adjusting the welding parameters, as a qualified welder would. It is applied in vessels and tank fabrication, pipes and ducts, and structural steelwork.

CADE Cobots

Turnkey collaborative robotics solutions for pick & place, machine tending, palletizing, quality inspection or screwdriving. In its first installation, a cobot took over the loading and unloading of an existing welding robot without interrupting the workshop’s activity.

Where it is developed

Innovation Factory

The Innovation Factory was created for the conception, development and realisation of industrial solutions. As CADE’s technology hub, it drives the development of in-house solutions in industrial automation, collaborative robotics, digital simulation, industrial data analysis and intelligent control.