ROBOT INTEGRATION
Robot Integrator Selection & Acceptance Test Guide
Select a robot integrator using application evidence, safety engineering, controls competence, lifecycle support and measurable FAT/SAT acceptance criteria.
Integrator qualification
- Review comparable applications, controls platforms, safety-engineering capability, documentation practice and service coverage.
- Require clear responsibility boundaries for robot, tooling, machine interfaces, guarding, vision and process equipment.
- Check how software versioning, backups, remote access and cybersecurity are controlled during support.
Factory acceptance test
- Test representative parts, cycle conditions, faults and changeovers before shipment where practical.
- Record cycle time, repeatability, quality, alarm handling, recovery and safety-function evidence against agreed criteria.
- Track open items formally rather than treating a successful demonstration as complete acceptance.
Site acceptance test
- Repeat critical performance tests with actual utilities, upstream/downstream equipment and production conditions.
- Verify training, documentation, backups, spare-parts lists and maintenance access before final handover.
- Define a controlled production proving period when uptime and process capability cannot be demonstrated in a short test.
Professional references
These references establish the standards, technical framework or authoritative engineering context used for this page. Vendor commercial terms are not used as engineering evidence.
- ISO 10218-1:2025 Robotics — Safety requirements — Part 1: Industrial robots — Current ISO safety requirements for industrial robots.
- ISO 10218-2:2025 Robotics — Safety requirements — Part 2: Industrial robot applications and robot cells — Current ISO safety requirements for industrial robot applications and robot cells.
- OSHA Robotics — U.S. occupational-safety reference for robotics hazards and standards context.
- NIST Robotics and Manufacturing Automation — NIST MEP engineering context for evaluating and adopting manufacturing robotics and automation.
Engineering-use note. This PROFENG resource is for screening, comparison and technical preparation. Replace assumptions with project data and use the responsible qualified professional, applicable standards, codes and authority requirements for final design, compliance or safety decisions.
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