Custom Machine Building
Custom machine building, built to run for years.
We design, build, and install purpose-built automation in-house. Skip the robot when your process, budget, or part doesn't need that flexibility.
COMMON PROBLEM WE SOLVE
You need automation. You can't afford to get it wrong.
Your people are stuck doing one repetitive task all day.
Pressing, assembling, or feeding the same part thousands of times a shift. It's hard to staff, harder to keep staffed, and output rises and falls with turnover. Automation looks like the answer, but it's a major decision to get wrong.
You can't tell if you need a robot or a machine.
Robots get the attention, but a purpose-built machine is often simpler and faster for a single job. Without someone in-house who has done this before, it's hard to know which one your process calls for.
You don't know who will be there once it's on your floor.
A machine can arrive, get installed, and leave you to figure out adjustments and ramp-up on your own. If you've been there before, you know a machine that isn't producing is a very expensive paperweight.
Solution
Get a custom machine that checks all your boxes.
We evaluate your process before we quote, build everything under one roof, and stay on after install. The sooner you know what will work, the sooner that repetitive task stops limiting what you can take on.
Engineered for one job, built to run for years.
Mechanical design, fabrication, controls, and dedicated tooling, all engineered around your part, your cycle time, and your floor space, and built to work alongside the equipment you already run.
We'll tell you if a robot is the better fit.
Every project starts on your floor with a time study, a tolerance review, and video of your current process. If your parts or process change often, a reprogrammable robot is usually the better choice, and you'll hear that from us before we quote anything.
Support is easy to promise. We pick up the phone.
We stay on long after the machine ships. Troubleshooting, adjustments, and upgrades as your operation grows, from the people who built your machine.
The Arcrite Method
Full turnkey project
from first visit to full
production.
Site visit and feasibility study
We visit your facility, run a time study, and review your parts and tolerances. Including upstream and downstream processes.
Concept and budget
You get a concept and a realistic budget, so you know the size of the investment before engineering starts.
Engineering and build
Our team designs, tools, programs, and builds your system locally in Waterford, Connecticut.
Install and training
We install on-site and train your team on changes upstream, downstream, so nothing comes as a surprise.
Ongoing support
We stay on for troubleshooting, adjustments, and upgrades as your operation grows, from the people who built it.
Built with proven technology.
Selected to fit your parts, your tolerances, your production. Not the other way around.
FAQs
A custom machine builder designs and builds equipment from scratch for one specific job, rather than adapting a standard machine or robot. At Arcrite, that covers custom machinery design, fabrication, controls and PLC programming, dedicated tooling, and installation, all in-house.
It depends on how often your parts and process change. Custom automated machines are usually simpler and faster for one repeatable job. If your parts change often, a reprogrammable robot is usually the better fit. The on-site evaluation tells you which one your process calls for, and we'll say so either way.
Ask whether they evaluate your process on your floor before quoting, and whether design, fabrication, and controls happen under one roof or get split between vendors. Then ask who supports the machine after start-up. Those answers separate custom machinery manufacturers better than any spec sheet.
Purpose-built custom manufacturing equipment for jobs like assembly, pressing, part feeding, and dedicated fixturing, using mechanisms such as cams, pneumatics, and servo drives. For example, we've replaced a manual assembly line with a bowl-fed press machine that does the same job continuously.
Yes. Most custom machine building projects connect to an existing line rather than replacing it. We design the machine to fit your cycle time, your floor space, and the equipment around it.
Our shop and team are in Waterford, CT, and we build custom machines for manufacturers across the East Coast.
No. We look at your parts, tolerances, and production, and tell you honestly what we find. There's no obligation attached.
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Your automation project doesn't have to be a guess.
Get a personalized on-site evaluation so you know what it takes before you invest a single dollar.