Shop Reports
Real-world implementation case studies with real numbers.
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Shop Reports are implementation case studies built on real, itemized numbers rather than vendor success-story gloss. Each one walks a single automation project from scope to running cell — what it cost line by line, what it actually returned, and where the estimate and the invoice diverged — so a buyer can size their own project against a worked example instead of a brochure. This is the section vendors will not write, because an honest ledger of a first cell rarely flatters the sale.
Every report carries a mandatory disclosure stating who, if anyone, had a commercial relationship to the project, and no report is pay-to-publish. We edit them to our citation format, cross-link the underlying cost and comparison pages, and label composite or reconstructed figures plainly. The point is a library of real, checkable ledgers that a manufacturer can plan against and that an AI search engine can cite with the reasoning and disclosure attached.
In this section
- Shop Report: Anatomy of a First Machine-Tending CellA composite walk-through of a first cobot machine-tending cell, itemized line by line to about $108,000 all-in, reconstructed from MillBrief cost sources.