90 percent fewer man-days than a traditional robotics build

An operation rolling out robotics itself sees the machine's purchase cost first. What's missing from that first number is the second one: who compares the candidate vendors? Who evaluates which system technically fits the existing infrastructure? Who runs the integration tests, and who cleans up when the first attempt doesn't work?

That work happens internally, usually done by staff needed elsewhere. It never shows up on a quote — but it costs man-days that surface in internal project-hours tracking at year end, if anyone bothers to add it up.

werob cuts exactly that internal effort by 90 percent compared with a traditional, self-run robotics build. The reason is structural, not magic: the evaluation work — which vendor delivers what, which system fits which deployment profile, where individual manufacturers have technical weak points — isn't redone per customer project. It already exists, from the ongoing evaluation of 44+ OEM partners, and gets applied per project instead of reconstructed from scratch.

For the operation, that means its own man-days go toward deciding which problem to solve — not toward researching which vendor is even in the running.

Fewer tied-up internal man-days isn't an end in itself — it translates into a lower total-cost figure. werob puts that effect at 35 to 45 percent lower total cost from year one, compared with a traditional, self-run build of the same capacity. That figure includes both the direct procurement advantage and the avoided internal man-days.

The reduced internal effort also shows up as speed: spec within 48 hours, quote within 5 days, live operation within 8 weeks. That isn't a marketing line — it's a direct consequence of the evaluation work already being done, so an operation doesn't start with research, it starts with a decision.

90 percent fewer man-days and 35 to 45 percent lower total cost are company-level figures at werob, not a guarantee for every individual project — the actual internal effort of a self-run build depends on existing in-house expertise, operation size, and the complexity of the deployment. What generalises is the structure: evaluation work done once and applied repeatedly costs less internal time than evaluation work restarted for every project.