Applied Engineering Services for Smarter Manufacturing

GLOBAL delivers applied engineering services that turn complex manufacturing challenges into practical, production-ready automation. From early feasibility studies to turnkey robotic cells, line upgrades, and on-site engineering talent, our team aligns technology with throughput, quality, safety, and uptime goals. Use one experienced partner to design the system, launch it successfully, and support the people and processes behind it.

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Our Applied Engineering Services

Integrated engineering, robotics, modernization, and talent solutions for demanding manufacturing environments.

Automation Consulting

Evaluate processes, cycle times, facility constraints, and return potential before committing to automation. GLOBAL develops practical concepts and implementation recommendations for high-value manufacturing improvements.

Turnkey System Integration

Bring robotic automation from concept through simulation, controls engineering, build, installation, commissioning, training, documentation, and long-term production support with one accountable engineering partner.

Line Upgrades

Modernize existing production lines for new launches, capacity needs, model changeovers, or improved automation while helping minimize downtime and unnecessary capital investment.

Machine Vision Guidance

Use vision-guided robotics for part location, inspection, moving-line tracking, random bin picking, and in-line validation that reduces fixturing, scrap, and rework.

Material Handling

Engineer flexible robotic pick-and-place, palletizing, depalletizing, racking, transfer, and conveyor-integrated handling systems around your parts, floor space, cycle times, and production requirements.

Automation Staffing

Add qualified controls engineers, PLC programmers, robotics technicians, designers, project managers, and commissioning specialists through contract, contract-to-hire, or direct placement options.

End-to-End Automation

Engineering That Moves Production Forward

Applied engineering is most valuable when it connects a business objective to a system that performs on the plant floor. GLOBAL combines feasibility analysis, concept and detailed design, simulation, robotic integration, controls, machine vision, factory acceptance testing, installation, and commissioning in one coordinated offering, with technical staffing available to sustain the result. Engineers work through each phase—study, design, build, test, install, and run-off—so the objective carries through to production release. The work is designed around your actual equipment, parts, quality requirements, and operating constraints to improve throughput, consistency, traceability, safety, and long-term production resilience.

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The GLOBAL Difference

Why Choose GLOBAL?

One partner for the automation system and the engineering talent behind it.

Unified Delivery

Robotic integration and technical staffing work together under one partner, simplifying complex project execution.

FANUC Level 5 Integrator

Level 5 is the top tier of FANUC's Authorized System Integrator program, reserved for partners with demonstrated engineering capability across a broad range of applications.

Factory-Focused

Our 110+ team members support demanding plant-floor, simulation-lab, and customer-site engineering work.

Smarter Launches

AI-assisted simulation helps reduce programming time and uncover issues before deployment and commissioning.

Meet the GLOBAL Team

Automation specialists focused on solving real manufacturing problems.

Founded in 2009, GLOBAL Automation Technologies was built to solve manufacturing problems through automation, bringing automation solutions, services and technical staffing together as a single source for robotic automation and the engineers to run it. Across 17+ years the team has grown to 110+ members working in simulation environments, on plant floors, and at customer sites, with offices in four countries and project experience in 22 countries. In the last five years GLOBAL has delivered 745+ automation projects across 140+ manufacturing facilities. Applying lessons from automotive, EV, heavy equipment, and aerospace work, GLOBAL delivers the system and the people behind it with accountability from concept through production support.

17+ YearsAutomation expertise since 2009
110+ Team MembersEngineering and technical professionals
700+ FANUC RobotsInstalled

Frequently Asked Questions

What engineering services does GLOBAL provide?

GLOBAL delivers applied engineering services that turn a production objective into a working system—feasibility studies, concept and detailed design, robot and controls engineering, project management, and on-site installation and commissioning support. Manufacturers can engage GLOBAL for a full turnkey project or for specific engineering phases that supplement an in-house team. The focus is practical output on the plant floor, not analysis for its own sake.

Which industries use GLOBAL's applied engineering services?

How does a feasibility study shape a project?

How does a project flow from concept to run-off?

Can GLOBAL supplement our in-house engineering team?

How flexible is GLOBAL on controls and platforms?

Can GLOBAL upgrade an existing line, and how do we start?

Have an automation project in mind?

You don't need a defined project to start a conversation. Tell us about your products, your processes, and your automation goals, and learn how GLOBAL approaches automation.

Where GLOBAL Works

Engineering support for manufacturers across North America and global production environments.

22 Countries

Experience

5 Continents

Global Reach

110+ Members

Team Size

Need Support at Your Facility?

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Certifications & Recognition

Certifications & Recognition

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FANUC Level 5 Authorized System Integrator

GLOBAL holds Level 5 standing in FANUC's Authorized System Integrator program.

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WBENC-Certified Women-Owned Business

Certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council, helping OEM and Tier 1 buyers meet supplier-diversity goals.

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Founded by Former FANUC Engineers

GLOBAL was founded by former FANUC engineers, and the team still brings deep FANUC application expertise.

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85 Resident & Site Engineering Projects

85 resident and site engineering support projects, from single visits to multi-year embedded programs.

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638 Service Engagements

638 engineering and site service engagements since 2021, with services value holding steady for six consecutive years.

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10 Projects Over $1M

Since 2021, ten projects have exceeded $1 million and 43 have exceeded $200,000.

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Prime Contractor, Cell to Greenfield

Turnkey projects delivered as prime contractor, from design and build through programming, installation and commissioning, from a single robotic cell to a greenfield facility.

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Next-Day On-Site Support

Rapid response, with next-day on-site support often available.

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Nights, Weekends & Shutdowns

After-hours support for nights, weekends and planned shutdowns.

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Single Visit to Resident Programs

Service from single visits under $25K to resident engineering programs embedded for consecutive production quarters.

Turn Manufacturing Challenges Into Progress

Tell us about your process, production goals, and current constraints. A GLOBAL specialist can help identify the next practical engineering step.

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