Automate feeding of your welding line.
Faster, more efficient, 24/7

Photoneo Pick-to-Weld is a proven, versatile system that drops into your welding automation line, eliminates labor bottlenecks and gets returns in under 18 months. Boost your throughput and lower labor costs with a line that does not stop for damaged bins or shiny parts.

400+

Pick-to-Weld installations worldwide

< 50 sec

full pick-to-weld cycle time

~85%

of bins come out of spec. Empty 100% of them. 

Single System

from <2 cm bolts to >2 m body panels

Maximize Your Welding Throughput with Automated Feed

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Relieve Your Workforce. Automate Your Welding Feed

80% of automotive plants face severe labor shortages. Automated Pick-to-Weld eliminates the heavy, hazardous, and repetitive manual lifting that slows down your welding cells and risks employee safety.

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Achieve Full ROI in Just 18 Months.

Our automated Pick-to-Weld system delivers a predictable, rapid payback of just 18 months while permanently lowering your cost-per-part.

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Automate Tasks You Thought Demanded Human Hands

Our Pick-to-Weld solution automates the most complicated tasks. Using 3D vision and VGR, we reliably pick even occluded or tangled U- and T-shaped parts from unstructured bins, to feed your welding line.

From bin/rack to weld: Any part, any place, any surface

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Shiny or matte parts picking
No surface is a showstopper.
Shiny or matte parts picking
No surface is a showstopper. Matte, shiny, or mirror-finish - get clean, complete point clouds on even the most reflective stamped steel and aluminum parts.
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Small parts picking
Even the trickiest tiny geometries
Small parts picking
Brackets, clips, weld nuts - even the trickiest tiny geometries. The thin U-, L-, and Z-shaped brackets that defeat traditional vision systems? Handled.
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Medium parts picking
From hinges to smaller panels
Medium parts picking
Hinges, reinforcement beams, smaller panels - picked reliably whether they sit tightly in structured bins or chaotically piled on top of each other.
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Large parts picking
Tailgates, roof bows or even doors
Large parts picking
Doors, hoods, tailgates, body side panels, floor pans, roof bows - the biggest parts on your welding line. Even hanging on racks, latch and all.
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Structured bin picking
Don’t let the dividers stop you
Structured bin picking
From semi-structured stacks to bins organized with tight dividers - the setups often deemed impossible to pick, localized precisely within tolerance, every cycle.
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Unstructured bin picking
Overcome entanglements or occlusions
Unstructured bin picking
No matter how chaotically the parts arrive in a bin, you can pick them. Overcome any entanglement or occlusion.
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Tote and tray picking
Pick jumbled piles from trays and totes
Tote and tray picking
Reliable picking from totes and trays - even the most jumbled piles become pickable, down to the last part.
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De-racking / Rack picking
Pick off the rack, with latch detection
De-racking / Rack picking

Parts come off the rack cleanly - with latch detection and automated unlocking, so even parts hanging on flimsy rods are handled firmly, without manual prep.

 

Trusted by Leading Automotive Manufacturers

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“Great product for the most advanced robotic applications."

Ing. Stanislav Korec Head of department PLC & robotics Matador Industries

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“I appreciate very good cooperation and a very flexible team approach towards integrated applications.”

Marcel Scalise CoC Hot Forming Forming Technologies Manufacturing Engineering (ME) @Benteler Automotive

From Chaotic Bin to Perfect Placement, Every Time

Localize

Find any part, in any container, on any surface. Even mirror-finish aluminum or a caved-in bin, so the right part is found first, every cycle.

Pick

Collision-free picking down to the last part in the bin, with recovery moves that clear the stragglers instead of stopping the line. Off racks, it even releases the latch first.

Deliver

Each part placed weld-ready in a precise, known position. Into a buffer, a fixture, the main line, or a sub-assembly island.

Are You a Robot System Integrator? Standardize Your Welding Cells with a Proven 3D Vision Layer.

Discover how we help integrators reduce engineering hours, handle out-of-spec bins out of the box, and pass acceptance the first time.



Are You a Robot System Integrator? 
Standardize Your Welding Cells with a Proven 3D Vision Layer.

Discover how we help integrators reduce engineering hours, handle out-of-spec bins out of the box, and pass acceptance the first time.

The Integrator’s Choice for Complex Pick-to-Weld Cells

 

 
“We’ve had success with a large automotive company around automating the robots - can’t name names - but we have a very good success there. Photoneo products are very unique in what they provide, the best in breed, and we recommend them in every case that we get an opportunity that fits the solution set that we’re trying to design.”

 

Tony Rivers
CEO, Peak Technologies
 
“The MotionCam-3D technology I think will open a lot of new possibilities, making acquisition of a point cloud more robust to glaring and reflections, also having a possibility to have a multi-view acquisition.”

Nicola Longo
Cognitive Automation & Digital Solution Dept, Comau

One System for Every Part on the Line

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Any Part

Handle any part you need to weld. Regardless of its geometry, surface or size. Doors, hoods, fenders, tailgates, roof bows - and the tricky U-, L-, and Z-shaped brackets in between. From under 10 cm to over 1 meter, even from more than 4 meters away.

Any place


No matter how your parts come, it can be picked from anywhere. Random bins, divider-structured bins, two-level hanging racks, nested pallets, totes, and trays - structured or chaotic, damaged or in spec.

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Any environment

You can deploy our pick-to-weld solution anywhere - regardless of reflections or complete dark. From direct sunlight to lights-out production - you can rely on our 3D vision systems even in toughest conditions.

Case Study
Automating Welding Jig Feeding with Photoneo 3D Vision

Discover how one of the world's leading automakers uses Photoneo 3D vision to eliminate manual loading and secure cycle times and how to unlock the same throughput for your plant.

Case Study
Automating Welding Jig Feeding with Photoneo 3D Vision

Discover how one of the world's leading automakers uses Photoneo 3D vision to eliminate manual loading and secure cycle times and how to unlock the same throughput for your plant.

One Powerful System. Endless Floor Applications.

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Single-scanner bin picking

One static-mounted 3D camera over the bin with full path planning handles random, structured, and semi-structured bins.

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Multiview bin picking

Built for thin U, L, and Z parts with two static 3D cameras on each side of the bin. Full path planning keeps every pick collision-free.

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Rack picking / de-racking

An M-size hand-eye-mounted 3D camera with localization software, including latch open/closed detection.

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Position / alignment inspection

Pose and position measurement with a static or hand-eye mounted 3D camera and localization software verifying the full/empty state of the bin.

What production plant teams ask us first

Q: Will it keep up with our line rate? Yes - we've run a full 50-second pick-to-weld cycle in production, and in-motion scanning (MotionCam-3D Color) keeps vision moving for sub-4-second part cadences.

Q: Our parts are shiny and reflective. Can it see them? Yes. Latest-generation PhoXi 3D Scanner Gen3 optics return clean, complete point clouds on the shiniest stamped aluminum and mirror-finish steel - the surfaces that defeat ordinary vision.

Q: Our bins are beat up and out of spec. Does that break it? No. The system detects and measures the real bin and adapts its collision models to where it actually is. About 85% of bins in the field are out of spec; this is exactly what we're engineered for.

Q: What does the ROI look like? One platform handles many jobs, so the cost spreads across more of the plant and payback accelerates. We'll model cycle time, labor savings, and uptime on your actual line in a feasibility study.

Q: Can one system handle our full part mix? Yes - from sub-10 cm brackets to body panels over a meter, in bins, on racks, and in nested pallets. One platform, many jobs.

Let’s Assess Your Pick-to-Weld Feasibility