With Mac-Tech at METALCON 2026 · Orlando · October 7 to 9
You make the parts that make the building. We build the cell that makes them.
Trim, flashing, panels, brackets, clips and frames: the work that caps your week when the brake operator does not show. The Way Automation builds robot cells around the machines you already own, and we are standing in the Mac-Tech booth all week.
- 176 tonBrake retrofittedA FANUC on a rail, in place, 10 foot bed.
- 16 ftPanels handledFive hundred plus pounds, one robot cell.
- 8 to 5.5Minutes a cycleOne project. One result. Said as such.
- 1Cell to startProve it on the station that caps your week.
Which of these is you
Pick one. The page gets shorter.
If you own or run the shop
You already know which station caps your week. Sixty seconds on the Fit Check tells you whether a robot cell fits it, with no contact details asked. If it does, fifteen minutes with Tripp at the booth is the fastest way to book a first visit.
If you run production or engineering
Start with the parts. The application pages say what a cell handles and what it does not, the case studies show real cells on real floors, and the planner turns your parts a week into robot hours and cells, with no dollars anywhere.
If you run the machines
A cell takes the loading and the lifting. It does not take the brake. The people who run a TWA cell are the same people who ran the machine before it, trained on it, with the robot doing the part of the job nobody wanted. If your manager should see this, send it along.
If you sell machines or metal
Your customer asks whether the brake they are buying can run with a robot. The answer is yes, and the account stays yours. TWA is the named integrator on the work, Mac-Tech is the reason we are in this hall, and the same arrangement is open to you.
If you build, design or install
We do not install roofs. We work for the shops that make your panels, trim and brackets, so your orders ship on time when the season hits. If your fabricator is the slow link, that is a conversation we would be glad to have with the three of us in the room.
What we automate for metal construction
Built into the machine you own, not the one someone wants to sell you.
Trim, flashing and brackets
The brake that bends the same profiles all day, tended by a robot instead of the operator you cannot hire. Any brand, any tonnage, any bed length, into the brake you already own.
Panels and long parts
Sixteen foot panels and five hundred pound blanks are a two-person lift and a back injury waiting to happen. Two robots or a rail make them a one-robot job.
Tube benders, lasers and machine tending
The machine cuts or bends in minutes and then waits for a person. A robot on a rail loads it, unloads it, sorts by part and stacks for the next station.
Welding clips, frames and brackets
Repeat weldments in volume, with the welder you have doing the setups and the robot doing the arcs.
Two machines, one robot
A robot on a gantry between two presses keeps both fed from one stack. Fewer hands at the machines, and the same people running the line.
A cell on a skid
Every TWA cell is built and tested as a modular skid in Bixby, Oklahoma, then rolled onto your floor. Installation is days, not a season.
Cells we have built, on floors like yours
Press brake tending, published by FANUC America
Sanding and finishing, two robots, one door line
Tube bending, a full order run unattended
Sixteen foot panels, brought in-house
Resin vessel handling, a twin palletizer, cobots on carts and on brake rails: the case studies page carries the rest.
The connected factory
One cell is a project. A plant that reports itself is a plan.
Every cell we build can report what it is doing: cycle times, uptime, part counts, so the floor talks to the front office without anyone walking out to count. Start with one cell. Add the next one knowing what the first one did. That is the conversation we are having with the shops that are growing fastest right now.
Try these on your phone
Drawn for a shop we made up. No dollars, nothing saved or sent.
How it goes
Four stations. You decide after each one.
- CrawlFit CheckAbout a minute, on your phone. You see the answer first.You are here
- First visitAn engineer walks your floor with you and writes down what we would automate first.
- WalkScoping EngagementThe cell, the layout, the numbers from your own parts, in writing. You decide.
- RunThe first cellBuilt and proven in Bixby, installed on your floor, your people trained on it.
The numbers in a scope come from your parts and your machine, never from a brochure. We do not quote a payback figure, because the only honest one is the one worked out on your floor.
Leave your details
Thirty seconds here beats a business card in a pocket.
Tell us what you make and what caught your eye. Tripp reads these from the booth and follows up the same day, by text or email, only if you say we may.
Rather talk now? (406) 491-7310, or text Tripp. He is in the Mac-Tech booth, Hall South A, through Friday.
Who you are talking to
Mac-Tech sells the machine. We build the cell around it.
Mac-Tech brought us to this show because their customers kept asking the same question: can the brake I just bought, or the one I have had for fifteen years, run with a robot? The Way Automation is the integrator named on that work. Your account stays with your dealer. Our name goes on the cell, and our people answer when it needs one.
We design, build and test every cell in Bixby, Oklahoma, as a skid, before it ships. Then we come to your floor and stay until your team owns it. One year warranty from the day it runs.
The FANUC America write-up is on our Thunder Creek case study. Everything else we say about a customer is anonymised until that customer says otherwise.
Who stands behind the cell
Three things FANUC has put its name to
Credentials held, each one on the record.
FANUC Authorized System Integrator
A credential we hold today, from FANUC America.
2025 FANUC Outstanding Growth Award
Given to TWA by FANUC in 2025.
A FANUC America case study on a TWA cell
FANUC America published it. The customer is Thunder Creek.
Before you leave the hall
Sixty seconds now saves a month of wondering
Take the Fit Check, then come find us. You decide what happens after.