Business View Magazine | February 2019

111 standing relationship with FANUC Canada.We’re an authorized system integrator for them; sharing tech- nology and working together to find solutions for our common customers’ problems.We have a simi- lar, less formal, relationship with COGNEX–a newer tech provider with some exciting recent advances. And we also work closely with a number of other technology providers.We buy robots that come with hundreds of options for ways to deploy them.That’s where system integrators come in.The manufactur- ers build robots with lots of flexibility, but it’s up to the integrator to develop innovative solutions to the infinite number of problems you find in the industry. The robots come with built-in firmware and, using some of their software tools and some from the vi- sion systems, our job is to make those systems talk to each other and the broader machine controls.We also have to make the robots talk to each other by integrating all the systems to work together.”