World-class fabricator.Automation that pays for itself.
Custom robot cells for Australian manufacturers with a problem a standard cell won’t fix. We design them, build the steel, program the robot and commission it on your floor.
If a standard cell would do the job, you don’t need us.
We take the jobs that stall at the quote stage. One shop designs the cell, builds the steel, writes the robot program and commissions it on your floor, so the hard parts don’t fall between contractors.
- Awkward parts
- Heavy, oily, flexible, fragile or never quite the same twice. We design the gripper around the part, then build it.
- Tight floors
- Cells made to fit the space you actually have, guarding and stands included, because we fabricate them ourselves.
- Old machines
- Robots fitted to presses, mills and lines that were never designed to have one.
Every part of the cell, under one roof.
That’s the cell behind this page, seen from overhead. Each tagged part is work we do ourselves.
Robot cells
Robot selection, cell layout, programming and commissioning on your floor. KUKA, Nachi, xArm and similar.
Tooling and grippers
End-of-arm tooling designed around your part: grippers, fingers, adapter plates and fixtures.
Machine safety
Guarding, light curtains, interlocks and safety logic, planned into the first layout rather than bolted on at the end.
Fabrication
Stands, bases, frames and guarding, welded in our own shop by a WorldSkills gold medallist in fabrication.
Vision and AI
Cameras that find, check and measure the part, for jobs where it never lands in quite the same place twice.
Same people, start to finish.
Five steps, one team. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor halfway through.
N10Scope
We come to your floor and look at the part, the process and the space, then tell you plainly whether a robot is the right answer. If it is, you get a written scope of what the cell has to do.
N20Design
Cell layout, tooling and guarding modelled in CAD, with reach and clearances checked in the model before any steel is cut.
N30Build
Stands, guarding and tooling fabricated in our shop. The cell is assembled and the robot programmed under the same roof.
N40Commission
Installed on your floor, tuned to your real parts, safety functions checked, and your operators trained to run it.
N50Support
Changes, new parts and fixes come back to the people who designed and built the cell, for as long as it runs.
Built in our workshop.
Welding, robot hands, electronics and machining: work we've designed, built and tested ourselves.
OXT-P01
Cobot welding
A Universal Robots cobot with a welding torch and wire feed, set up on a fixture table.
- Robot
- Universal Robots
- Process
- Welding
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Robot hand
A multi-finger hand, from the CAD model to the build running on a cobot.
- Design
- CAD
- Build
- Hand on a cobot
OXT-P03
Control boards
Control boards with wireless modules, and laser-cut acrylic covers.
- Work
- Electronics
- Covers
- Laser-cut acrylic
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CNC machining
Milling a detailed pocket and profile into aluminium plate.
- Process
- CNC milling
- Material
- Aluminium
Judged against the world’s best.
2010
Gold medals
- WorldSkills Australia regional competition
- WorldSkills Australia national competition
Sheet metal fabrication
2011
Medallion of Excellence
- WorldSkills International, London
Sheet metal fabrication
- Trade
- Sheet metal fabrication
- Canada
- Qualified journeyman, sheet metal, British Columbia
- Ambassador
- Australian Apprenticeships Ambassador
- In business
- Own fabrication business, 10+ years; own telecom and internet company, 10 years
The programmer built the stand.
Oxide Technologies is Rusty Routledge’s shop in Brisbane. He’s a sheet metal fabricator by trade, a qualified journeyman in British Columbia, Canada, and a WorldSkills medallist. He has run his own fabrication business for more than ten years, and his own telecom and internet company for ten.
On an Oxide job, the person who writes your robot program also welded the steel it stands on. When something needs changing, there’s one person to ask, and they know every part of the cell.
Got a job nobody else will quote?
Email a photo or drawing of the part. The email opens with a short brief to fill in, and you’ll hear back from Rusty.
Phone answered by our AI receptionist, who takes the details for Rusty