Robots, put to work on the precast floor.

Tranno Robotics helps precast and prefab plants in North America take a robot from purchased to reliably doing a job — deployment, integration, custom development, and keeping it running. We handle the part that is actually hard.

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10+years hands-on in the construction industry
2disciplines on the founding team — construction & IT engineering
2languages — full service in EN & 中文
1accountable partner, end to end
What We Do

From purchased to reliably running.

A robot that works in the showroom and a robot that works next to a casting bed are two different machines. We do the work in between.

Technician commissioning a collaborative robot cell

Deployment

Cell layout, control panels, PLC hookup, safety assessment, and commissioning — done on your floor, around your production schedule, signed off working.

Ongoing Support

Local first-line support: managed spare-parts programs, preventive maintenance, remote diagnostics, site visits. No shipping your machine overseas.

North American Compliance, Coordinated

CE is not recognized in Canada. We coordinate the compliant path onto the plant floor — CSA / cUL field evaluation, CSA Z432 / Z434 risk assessment, Ontario PSR — working with accredited bodies and licensed engineers, through to sign-off.

Integration

Fitting the robot into how your plant actually runs — the forms, the crane schedule, the people on either side of it. Not a fenced cell dropped in a corner.

Custom Development

Vision, end-of-arm tooling, and cell logic written for your parts and your process — the IT-engineering half of our founding team, applied to your floor.

The Environment

This is not a clean factory floor.

Generic integrators are built for automotive and packaging: sealed halls, fixed takt, a fenced cell on a painted floor. A precast plant is a different animal, and the difference is exactly where deployments die:

  • Concrete dust and form-release agent settle on everything — unsealed electronics and standard grippers do not last a season
  • Wash-down zones, wet casts, and steam curing put moisture where the datasheet says there should not be any
  • Rebar, mesh, and lifting anchors mean parts that are never quite identical — a robot that needs perfect parts will stand idle
  • Forms and molds cycle on curing schedules, not conveyor speed — the robot has to fit the schedule, the schedule will not fit the robot
  • The workflow is mixed manual and mechanical: cranes overhead, people on both sides — safety assessment is the job, not a checkbox
  • The hardest stations — demolding, finishing, lifting — are the ones with the highest turnover. That is where a robot earns its keep first.
Precast concrete plant floor: casting beds, rebar cages, overhead crane
How It Works

Tell us the task. We take it from there.

Assess

We walk your line, capture the requirement, and build the ROI case — before anyone talks about hardware.

Specify & Quote

Vendor-neutral selection and a fixed quote against the job. You see exactly what you're buying and why.

Integrate & Commission

Cell build, controls, safety assessment, and commissioning on your floor — signed off working, not "delivered".

Train & Support

Your operators run it. We stay on call with parts, maintenance, and remote diagnostics.

Why Tranno

Buying a machine is easy. Getting it to work is not.

Most automation equipment on the market is good. What's scarce is someone local who makes it produce — and answers the phone afterwards.

Buying directWith Tranno Robotics
Selection✕Catalog and spec sheets ✓Engineer walks your line first
Integration✕Find your own integrator ✓One contract, one accountable team
Commissioning✕"Delivered" = on the dock ✓"Done" = running, signed off
Training✕A PDF and a video link ✓On-site, in English or Chinese
Service✕Overseas RMA, weeks of downtime ✓Local parts program and local hands
Applications

Where a robot earns its keep in a precast plant.

Typical first stations. We assess your floor and start where the payback is shortest.

Robot arm palletizing concrete paver blocks
Handling

Palletizing & stacking

Pavers, blocks, tiles, small components — the repetitive lifting that wears people out and turns over crews fastest.

Technician commissioning a collaborative robot cell
Process

Mold & finishing stations

Mold cleaning, release-agent application, surface finishing, deburring — dirty, consistent-motion work a robot holds tolerance on all shift.

Control cabinet wiring during commissioning
Compliance & Deployment

Imported equipment onto the plant floor

Coordinating CSA / cUL field evaluation, CSA Z432 and Z434 risk assessment, and Ontario PSR for imported industrial equipment — from customs to a signed-off, running cell.

Tranno jobsite robot in Gazebo simulation
Robotics Engineering

Simulation-first robot development

Our own lab: a jobsite delivery robot developed end-to-end in ROS 2 and Gazebo — perception, navigation, material handling. All footage labeled simulation.

Capability offering. Project delivery experience in industrial automation and control systems; North American robotics references in progress.

For Equipment Manufacturers

Entering North America?

A local service partner for equipment manufacturers.

Your product is ready. North America is not a product problem — it is a compliance and service problem. CE does not transfer. Certification findings come back in English to an engineering team that works in Chinese. Customers expect a local phone number and someone who shows up. Shipping a unit back across the Pacific for warranty work costs more than the margin on the sale.

We are based in Toronto and we cover that gap:

  • Compliance coordination — CSA / cUL field evaluation, CSA Z432 / Z434 risk assessment, Ontario PSR
  • Installation, commissioning, and integration into the customer's existing PLC / SCADA
  • Operator and maintenance training, delivered in English
  • Local first-line service, warranty repair, and managed spare parts
  • Direct technical communication with your engineering team in Mandarin — findings handled without a translation layer

We do not require exclusivity to start, and we do not take title to inventory. We are open to distribution, agency, or pure service-subcontract arrangements.

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About

Equipment is only as good as the team that puts it to work.

English

Tranno Robotics puts robots to work in construction manufacturing — precast concrete plants, prefab and modular component manufacturers, and building material fabrication shops across North America.

Our founders include construction engineers and IT engineers, with more than ten years of hands-on construction industry experience. That combination is the point: robotics companies have the technology but not the trade knowledge; construction manufacturers have the production problems but not the engineering. We sit in the middle, on the plant floor.

The founding team also carries decades of industrial automation and systems integration work delivered in Asia — Delta, Yokogawa, Xylem, and Siemens product lines, stated as background only; no current authorization implied. We work in English and Chinese.

中文

Tranno Robotics 帮助北美的预制混凝土厂、装配式构件厂与建材加工厂把机器人真正 用起来——从"买回来"到"在产线上稳定干活"：部署、集成、定制开发与持续支持。

创始团队中既有建筑工程师，也有 IT 工程师，拥有十余年建筑行业一线经验。这个组合 正是关键：机器人公司懂技术但不懂行业，建筑制造企业有生产难题但缺工程能力，我们站在 中间、站在车间里。创始团队同时具备交付于亚洲的数十年工业自动化集成背景（台达、横河 电机、赛莱默、西门子等产品线，仅为背景陈述，不代表现有授权）。

全程中英文双语服务。欢迎厂商与我们联系： info@gotranno.com

Have a station you want automated?

We are looking for 2–3 pilot plants. Tell us your hardest station — an engineer replies, not a sales queue.

Prefer email? info@gotranno.com