Robotic Machine Tending
Budget Sizer · India
Free Tool · CNC Automation
What automation budget makes sense
for your CNC tending problem?
Set the payback period your management expects. Answer basic plant, part and machine questions, then estimate the automation budget and compare feasible robot cell options for those constraints.
Payback target expected by your management
Common industrial automation gate: 18–30 months
24 months
1248 months
The tool converts your annual value opportunity into the maximum automation investment that can fit your selected payback period.
Simple gate: If management expects 24-month payback, the affordable investment is roughly 2× the net annual value created by automation.
Cell sizing questions
1 robot can serve 1–3 machines depending on cycle time and layout
2 machines
16
Higher shifts improve investment capacity
2 shifts
13
Used for robot payload and EOAT sizing
2.0 kg
0.1 kg30 kg
Robot reach and layout envelope
900 mm
4002000 mm
Drives gripper and fixture design
Manual door adds hardware and integration
High variety may need tool changing or vision
3 families
120
Affects gripper material, sensors and protection
Decides base, tray, guarding and access
Current value opportunity
Fully-loaded monthly cost
₹/mo
People redeployed from loading/unloading
1 operator
04
Current average saleable output
parts
Use your internal machine-hour rate, or estimate value of one extra productive CNC hour
₹/hr
Extra productive machine time captured by reducing loading wait, operator delay and shift gaps
15%
0%50%
Annual scrap, rework, collision or setup-loss estimate
₹/yr
Output value is estimated as: CNC machines × shifts × 8 hours × 300 working days × idle-time reduction × CNC machine hourly value.
Ready to estimate budget and compare options?
This will use your payback target, machine-hour value and operating-value inputs to estimate the automation budget, then show feasible robot cell options for your constraints.
Automation budget estimate
Affordable investment as per your target
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Based on payback gate
Estimated cell investment range
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Low to high estimate, ex-GST
Likely investment needed
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Gap to target: —
Annual value pool
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Before capex, after support allowance
Recommended robot class
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Payload and reach based
Complexity level
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Robot cell options are ready
Compare 3-axis autoloaders, 6-axis cobots, 6-axis industrial robots and simple dedicated loaders against this budget and your constraints.
Robot Cell Options in Your Budget & Constraints
Shortlisting...Shortlisted automation approaches
Baseline cell configuration behind the estimate
Recommended sensing, safety and peripherals
Get a free engineering consultation
Share your CNC model, part drawing/photo, cycle time and floor layout. We can return a firm option shortlist, BOM and commercial structure.
This is a preliminary budget and option-fit tool. Investment ranges are indicative, ex-GST, and depend on actual CNC access, workholding, part variation, guarding requirement, machine interface, cycle-time balance and site conditions. Perfaktry Cell Controller, electricals and machine-signal work are included inside Engineering, Integration, Installation & Commissioning. Output value uses machine-hour value instead of contribution per part because early-stage users may not know part-level contribution.