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About Us

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4D Automation Inc is a Canadian company, based in Burlington, Ontario, a solid team of 6 designers, each having 10-30 years of experience, each working out of his home office for 5 years or more.
In order to provide easily integrated engineered solutions, we have the experience to work within client standards or, where necessary, to create our own. 
The combined experience of our technical staff and business partners allows us to design machines that will increase productivity, efficiency, quality and safety of your operations. 
We know your production requirements are unique and we are committed to develop tailored solutions to match every detail.
We offer mechanical design services for machine, tooling, automation and material handling, our expertise enables us to reach 1-60s cycle times with a design capability load of up to 240 hours/week.

Industries And Businesses We Served

Throughout the years we had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of industries, designing hundreds of automation systems and machines:

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    Automotive

    Assembly machinery, MIG welding, ultrasonic welding, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, bending machines

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    Robotics

    EOA tooling using pneumatic, electrical or vacuum grippers

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    Pharmaceutical

    Pick and place systems
    Conveyors

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    Food Processing

    Conveyors using flat belts, modular belts or wire mesh, shaped in straight, Z or curved form

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    Plastics

    Blow moulding machinery
    Machine unloading systems

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    Quality Control and Inspection

    Vision systems
    Functionality testing systems

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    Wood Products

    Automatic profile cutting systems

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    Metal Production

    Bronze casting tooling
    Descaling systems
    Automatic cutting systems

Concept
A good machine starts with a good concept
Integration
Integration of electrical actuators, pneumatics, vacuum, hydraulics, third party systems
Engineering calculations
From cycle time to accelerations, forces and power needs; deflection and stress
Optimization
Finding the best design for cost, strength, rigidity
Design
End effector, actuator selection, sensing, testing, measurement, calibration
Detailing
Preparation of assembly drawings and detailed drawings needed for manufacturing/assembly