Case Study: Ross Digital achieves market launch of RATIO automated barista with Flex's Sketch-to-Scale® solution

Ross Digital - Customer Case Study

Ross Digital needed to turn RATIO—an automated barista that serves coffee by day and cocktails by night and is ordered via a QR-code app—from sketches into a market-ready product. They partnered with Flex and tapped Flex’s Sketch-to-Scale® capabilities to address the full challenge of hardware, robotics, software, safety, and supply-chain design required for a day-to-night automated beverage solution.

Flex delivered mechanical design, software logic and IPC coding, PLC and robotic-arm programming (evaluating Epson and KUKA before selecting STAUBLI), electrical, water and air management, parts fabrication, assembly integration and stress testing. The collaboration took RATIO from concept (June 2017) to a launched shop on June 9, 2018 at K11 Shopping Mall in Shanghai, with optimized multi-glass chucks, on-site final integration support, and a fully operational, market-ready automated beverage system.

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