Grade and pack variable produce without bruising it.
Software-reconfigurable workcells that grade, handle, and pack variable natural produce without the bruising or the seasonal headcount.
The work is changing faster than you can staff it.
The dexterous, high-mix, contact-rich jobs are exactly the work classical automation was never built to hold — and the people who used to absorb it are getting harder to find.
Labor is short and seasonal
Packhouses compete for a shrinking, seasonal workforce, and H-2A wages and housing keep climbing. A cell that runs through peak without recruiting, training, or housing a temporary crew turns an annual scramble into reliable, repeatable capacity.
Perishability rewards speed
Produce loses value by the hour, so throughput and uptime are margin. Cells run consistently across long shifts and the harvest peak, holding line rate when manual stations tire, so more product moves before quality and price decay.
Food safety needs traceability
Buyers and auditors demand documented grading, inspection, and lot tracking. A cell records what it inspected, graded, and packed by lot, turning food-safety and recall readiness into a logged byproduct of normal operation rather than a manual paperwork burden.
The contact-rich jobs on a agriculture line.
One cell, reconfigured per part — not a new machine for every job on the floor.
Grading and sorting
Classify produce by size, color, ripeness, and defect, then route each item to its grade lane.
Gentle pick-and-place
Lift bruisable fruit from belt to tray with force-modulated grip and damage-free placement.
Tray and clamshell packing
Arrange graded produce into trays or clamshells to count, weight, and presentation spec.
Bunching and banding
Gather stems or greens into uniform bunches and apply bands or ties at line speed.
Box and crate filling
Fill cartons and crates to target weight and pattern without crushing lower layers.
Lidding and labeling
Seat lids on clamshells and apply date, lot, and grade labels for traceability.
One cell. Assembly, inspection, finishing.
Qualified off-site. Running in two weeks.
The slow, hard engineering happens on our floor — so the cell arrives tested and dialed in instead of tying up your team for months. A new part is a reconfiguration, not a rebuild.
- 01ScopePart, takt, fixturing, and safety boundary fixed upfront.
- 02Pre-buildCell built and tuned at Relling HQ, not your line.
- 03ConfigureSized and fixtured to your exact part.
- 04QualifyProven safe and capable before it ships.
- 05PilotFirst production run on your line.
- 06ProductionRunning the work, shift after shift.
- 07FleetAdd cells as the work pays for them.
Everything arrives in one qualified unit.
Arm, sensing, tooling, software, and safety, selected for your part and qualified as a set.
Manipulator & end-effector
Arm and tooling selected for your part, qualified as a set.
Closed-loop vision
Finds the part, adjusts in real time, verifies its own work.
Skill library & runtime
A new part is a reconfiguration, not a rebuild.
Safety & technician interface
Guarding sized to your floor, failures explained in plain language.
Will it fit your aisle? Yes.
Representative configuration. Final specs are issued with the proposal.
The Agriculture brief.
A deeper look at the work, the integration path, and how qualification maps to your process. PDF, 2026.
Bring a Relling workcell to your floor.
We started Relling to help American manufacturers make more of what this country needs. We'll scope a single cell to your parts, qualify it before it ships, and stand behind it on your floor.
