Capabilities / 03 — Factory Automation
WE BUILD THE MACHINES THAT BUILD YOUR PRODUCT.
Robotic arms, auto wrapping, auto packing, cartoning, and conveyors — engineered in Malaysia, commissioned on your floor, supported after handover.
Three ways the line hits its ceiling.
The work is repetitive and precise, and nobody stays. Every resignation restarts the training clock.
The line runs at the speed of its slowest manual station. Overtime and extra shifts are the only lever left.
Catalogue machines almost work — until your product's shape, material, or process breaks their assumptions.
Factory automation exists to end all three.
From manual stations to a line that runs itself.
A manual line moves at the speed of the people on it. Factory automation replaces the repetitive stations — handling, wrapping, packing, cartoning, transport — with machines under one control layer, so output stops depending on headcount and shifts.
The machines, and the end of the line.
Factory automation is not one machine. It's robotic and custom machines doing the work people can't be staffed for, and an end-of-line layer that wraps, packs, and cartons everything the line produces — tied together by conveyors.
Robotic & custom machines
The stations that do the work — robotic arms for handling, tailor-made machines when no catalogue equipment fits, and conveyors that tie them into one flow.
Robotic arm cells
Pick & place, palletizing, and machine tending. Arms with end-of-arm tooling and feeding engineered for your product.
Tailor-made machines
Custom stations engineered around your product's shape, material, and process — when standard equipment falls short.
Conveyor systems
Belt, roller, and chain conveyors with accumulation, merging, and sortation — the flow between every station.
Laser marking
Permanent part marking and coding integrated in-line — as a standalone station or part of a larger cell.
Wrapping, packing & cartoning
The last metres of the line, automated — product into cartons, cartons onto pallets, pallets wrapped and ready for dispatch.
Auto wrapping
Turntable and inline stretch wrappers that secure every pallet with a consistent, film-efficient wrap — no one circling with a roll.
Auto packing
Case packing and pallet loading at line speed — product into cases, cases onto pallets, straight into the wrapper.
Robotic palletizing
A robotic arm stacks cases onto pallets in a repeatable pattern — the step between packing and wrapping.
Turnkey projects
The whole line as one project — machines, conveyors, end-of-line packing, controls, and safety designed, built, and commissioned by one team.
Real lines, delivered.
A sample of what has left our workshop and gone into production — designed, built, and commissioned by CODETRACE.
Your product first. Then the machine. Then the line.
We do not sell machines on day one. Every build starts from your product and your line rate — and is proven in our workshop before it reaches your floor.
Factory automation, answered.
01What is factory automation?
Factory automation is the use of machines — robotic arms, custom stations, conveyors, and end-of-line equipment — to do the repetitive work on a production line, sequenced and monitored from one control layer. Output stops depending on headcount and shifts, and quality stops depending on who is on the line that day.
02What is a turnkey automation project?
A turnkey project means one team is responsible for the whole line — design, machine build, conveyors, end-of-line packing, controls, safety, installation, and commissioning — delivered as a single working system rather than a set of machines you have to integrate yourself.
03No standard machine fits my product. Can it still be automated?
Usually, yes — that is what tailor-made machines are for. When catalogue equipment breaks on your product's shape, material, or process, we design and build a station around the product itself, and prove it on your actual parts in our workshop before it ships.
04What is end-of-line automation?
The last metres of the line: packing product into cases, palletizing cases with a robotic arm, and stretch-wrapping the finished pallet for dispatch. It is often the fastest payback in the plant, because these stations are manual, repetitive, and run every shift.
05Will automation work with the machines I already have?
Yes. New stations are designed to slot into your existing line — conveyors bridge them, the PLC layer interlocks with your current equipment, and line status can flow up to the SCADA or MES systems your plant already runs.
06What does it take to start an automation project?
A line walk. We start with a line study — mapping your stations, rates, products, and the jobs you cannot staff — before proposing anything. Bring sample product and your target line rate; the study tells you what is worth automating first.