RS Automation offers rapid, cost-effective prototyping and fabrication services utilizing CNC machining, wire EDM, water jetting, and more. Their expertise spans from small precision parts to large components, ensuring quality and accuracy from concept to production.

Prototyping is the creation of preliminary parts or models that simulate the form, fit, and function of a product prior to mass production. It is used to validate design intent, test material performance, assess manufacturability, and gather stakeholder feedback. Prototyping methods include subtractive (e.g., CNC machining), additive (e.g., 3D printing), and formative (e.g., soft tooling or urethane casting) approaches depending on the functional and aesthetic requirements of the part.

Prototyping

Rapid, multidisciplinary build of functional prototypes that bridge industrial design and engineering validation. Combines additive manufacturing, CNC machining, soft tooling, electronics integration, and functional testing in tight sprint cycles to prove form-fit-function and gather user feedback before production tooling.

Prototype Development (Concept-to-Function)

Accelerated fabrication of proof-of-concept or fit-check parts using additive manufacturing technologies such as FDM, SLA, SLS or PolyJet, delivered within 24–72 hours from CAD data upload.

Rapid Prototyping (Additive)

Prototyping and Fabrication

RS Automation designs, fabricates, programs, and services UL 508A certified industrial control panels. Their turnkey solutions improve safety, efficiency, and profitability in production environments.

Builds complete wire-loom and panel assemblies using automated cut/strip/crimp machines, continuity/hipot test, and lot-level traceability for electromechanical products.

Electrical & Cable-Harness Assembly

UL Certified Panel Building & Design

RS Automation provides advanced PLC and HMI programming services to optimize production systems. They deliver new installations, upgrades, and retrofits that enhance automation efficiency and reliability.

End-to-end engineering and design services including CAD/CAE modeling, finite-element analysis, tolerance stack-up, DFM/DFA feedback and fixture design. Teams leverage multi-CAD platforms and PLM integration to deliver manufacturable product designs optimized for cost, performance and assembly.

Engineering & Design Services

Final system start‑up that integrates power‑on checks, software configuration, safety validation and sign‑off for production use.

Commissioning Service

Runs programmed electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic tests on 100 % of finished assemblies to verify performance versus spec before pack-out.

Functional & End-of-Line Testing

System Control, HMI & PLC Programming

Specializing in sanitary valve cluster and flow panel design, RS Automation fabricates custom skid-mounted solutions that meet or exceed industry standards for food, beverage, and dairy processing.

Transforms plate, sheet, bar and tube into finished assemblies through CNC laser or plasma cutting, press-brake forming, roll forming, and MIG/TIG/robotic welding. Services span carbon steel, stainless and aluminum, delivering structural frames, enclosures and turnkey weldments ready for machining, finishing or final assembly.

Metal Fabrication & Welding

Provides torque-controlled mechanical assembly, precision press-fit and staking, and colour-coded kitting cells that consolidate lot-tracked hardware into turnkey, line-side-ready packages. Integrated pick-to-light guidance, ESD-safe workstations, and barcode/QR traceability ensure every fastener, sub-component, and completed kit meets specification and ships with full documentation.

Mechanical Assembly & Kitting

Stocking, rapid manufacture, and just-in-time delivery of critical spare parts for rotary processing equipment—including seal shoes, riding-ring pads, girth-gear segments, thrust washers, bearings, chain drives and fastener kits—combined with inventory audits and recommended minimum-stock analyses.

Rotary System Components & Spare-Parts Supply

Valve Clusters & Flow Panel Design

RS Automation’s full-service machine shop delivers precision machining, tooling design, water jet cutting, and welding services. Skilled tradesmen ensure parts meet tight tolerances and quality standards for diverse industrial applications.

Machining encompasses a variety of manufacturing processes aimed at shaping and removing material from a workpiece. This includes both computer-controlled processes, such as CNC milling, turning, and routing, as well as non-traditional methods like Electrochemical, Chemical, and Photochemical Machining.

CNC Machining

CNC Milling removes material with rotating cutters under precise multi-axis computer control, producing complex prismatic or sculpted parts with positional accuracy to ±0.005 mm and surface finishes ≤ Ra 0.4 µm. Machines span 3-axis vertical mills, 4-axis horizontals with pallet changers, and full 5-axis trunnion or gantry platforms, supporting everything from rapid prototypes to lights-out production in metals, plastics, and composites.

CNC Milling

Waterjet cutting propels a 50-90 ksi water-garnet jet through a 0.010-in jewel orifice to cold-cut virtually any material up to 6 in thick with no heat-affected zone. Dynamic taper compensation yields ±0.002 in accuracy, making it ideal for thermally sensitive alloys, laminated stacks and thick composites.

Waterjet Cutting

Welding & Joining encompasses thermal-fusion and solid-state techniques that permanently unite metal (and some plastic) components. Processes include arc welding (MIG/GMAW, TIG/GTAW, Stick/SMAW, FCAW), resistance welding (spot, seam, projection), high-energy beam welding (laser, electron-beam), solid-state options (friction-stir, explosion, diffusion), and low-temperature joining such as brazing and soldering. Proper joint design, filler-metal selection, heat input control, and post-weld inspection are critical to achieving the required mechanical and metallurgical properties.

Welding & Joining

Machining, Tooling, Water Jetting & Welding

RS Automation develops automated robotic processes that free workers for higher-level tasks, increasing cost-effectiveness and production throughput through innovative automation technologies.

Machine Tending refers to the loading and unloading of raw materials or finished parts into and out of production machinery, often using automated robotics. This process streamlines workflow, reduces labor costs, and increases productivity on the shop floor.

Machine Tending

Pick and Place involves moving discrete parts from a supply or conveyor to specific locations in an assembly or packaging operation. This can be performed manually or by automated systems (e.g., robotic arms), optimizing throughput and precision in manufacturing and assembly lines.

Pick and Place

Robotics & Process Automation

A global standard for quality management systems focusing on continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

ISO 9001:2015

Machinery, filling, and packaging solutions for meat, dairy, beverage, and ingredient lines. USDA / FDA sanitary design, corrosion-resistant materials, and high-throughput automation preserve product quality and safety in regulated processing environments.

Food & Beverage Processing

RS Automation, LLC manufactures custom automation and control panel solutions, including UL 508A certified panel building and PLC programming, specifically tailored for the food and beverage processing industry to enhance production efficiency and ensure compliance with sanitary regulations.

The design, fabrication, and assembly of diverse products across multiple end‐use industries or specialized, project‐based needs. Emphasis is on versatility, custom solutions, and broad expertise to handle unique or varied manufacturing projects outside of more narrowly defined sectors.

General Manufacturing

RS Automation, LLC delivers precision machining, fabrication, assembly, and turnkey automation projects for the industrial manufacturing sector, offering custom control panels, PLC programming, and integrated valve cluster systems to optimize manufacturing processes and equipment control.

RS Automation, LLC is a full-service design and engineering firm specializing in custom industrial automation, control panel design and fabrication, precision CNC machining, prototyping, and process automation. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Albion, NY, the company operates a 14,000 sq. ft. facility with advanced equipment including Swiss turn lathes, CNC mills, EDM machines, and water jet cutting. RS Automation serves diverse industries such as food and beverage, dairy processing, and industrial manufacturing, offering UL 508A certified panel building, PLC programming, valve cluster design, and aseptic processing solutions. Their engineering team delivers turnkey projects from concept through production, emphasizing quality, safety, and efficiency.

The headquarters facility spans 14,000 sq. ft. with an adjacent building for panel building and water jetting. It houses machining, assembly, fabrication, and electric panel production with UL 508A certification, enabling turnkey custom automation and control system manufacturing. Strategically located in Albion, NY, it supports full service design, engineering, and manufacturing from raw material receipt to packaging and distribution.

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RS Automation provides custom industrial automation, control panel fabrication, CNC machining, and turnkey engineering solutions with UL certification and advanced manufacturing capabilities.

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