Consistent beads on parts that never sit the same.
Vision-guided adhesive, sealant, gasket, and thermal-material application held to your bead and coverage spec across high-mix parts.
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.
Consistency decides quality
A sealed joint is only as good as its weakest section. Hand-laid beads vary operator to operator and shift to shift; one thin spot or skip becomes a leak or bond failure. Repeatable, verified dispense holds every bead to the same spec.
Material is expensive
Adhesives, thermal compounds, and two-part systems cost real money per gram, and over-application adds up fast across a production run. Metered, path-accurate dispense puts material only where the spec calls for it and cuts waste.
Failures surface late
A leak or weak bond rarely shows at the dispense station; it appears after assembly, in test, or in the field, where rework and warranty cost the most. Inline bead verification catches defects at the source, before value is added.
What the service covers.
One cell, reconfigured per part — not a new machine for every job on the floor.
Adhesive beads
Lay structural and assembly adhesive beads along seams, flanges, and panel edges to bond spec.
Structural bonding
Apply controlled adhesive patterns for load-bearing joints replacing or supplementing mechanical fasteners.
FIP/CIP gaskets
Dispense formed- and cured-in-place gasket beads onto housings, covers, and enclosure grooves.
Sealant beads
Run continuous sealant beads for weatherproofing, leak prevention, and environmental sealing.
Thermal material
Apply thermal-interface material to pads and heat sinks at controlled coverage and thickness.
Potting
Pot and encapsulate electronics and connectors, filling cavities without trapping voids.
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 Dispensing & Sealing 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.
