We're a software development partner for automation companies. Engineers who already understand the industry. No ramp-up. No hand-holding.
Your team understands the problem. You build cells, integrate robots, commission lines. The mechanical and electrical work is dialed. But the software side keeps dragging.
Post-processors that need constant tweaking. Offline programming tools that don't match the floor. Custom HMIs held together with duct tape. Data that lives in spreadsheets because nobody had time to build the real system.
You've probably tried hiring. Maybe you brought in a developer who could code but didn't understand the domain. Or you found someone who knew the machines but couldn't architect software. Either way, you ended up managing the gap yourself.
Book a Technical ReviewYour lead engineer spends half their time fixing software instead of designing systems.
Every new project means rebuilding tools from scratch because nothing from the last job carried over.
You quoted a job assuming the post-processor would work. It didn't. Now you're eating hours.
A customer wants data out of your cell — cycle times, fault logs, OEE — and you're pulling it manually.
You've got a great product idea but no one on staff who can build the software layer.
Six months to find someone decent. Another six before they understand your domain. Meanwhile, your best engineer is still doing the software work themselves because the new hire keeps asking basic questions about robot kinematics.
They can build you a web app. They cannot build you a post-processor. They don't know what a tool frame is. Every conversation starts with you explaining fundamentals, and the code they deliver works in the demo but breaks on the floor.
Your mechanical engineers write Python scripts at midnight. Your controls people maintain a custom HMI they built five years ago that nobody else can touch. It works, barely, and it means you can't scale.
We're a software team that already speaks your language. Robot kinematics, CAD/CAM pipelines, RoboDK, PLC integration, OPC-UA, industrial protocols — we don't need a tutorial.
We've built post-processors, offline programming tools, custom simulation environments, and production data platforms for companies like yours. We know what it takes to get software working on a shop floor, not just in a test environment.
You don't manage us like a typical vendor. You tell us the problem, we propose the architecture, and we deliver working software — tested against your real configs, your real robots, your real production constraints.
Cell control interfaces. Job management systems. Operator dashboards that pull live data from the PLC and display what actually matters. Built for your workflow, not adapted from someone else's.
RoboDK plugins. MES connectors. ERP data bridges. OPC-UA gateways. Whatever your system needs to talk to, we build the layer that makes it work without requiring your team to maintain custom glue code.
We build and maintain post-processors for multi-axis robots and CNC machines. Custom toolpath generation. Automatic collision checking. The kind of work that saves your programming team hours per job and eliminates the "it worked in simulation" problem.
That custom tool your founder wrote in 2009 that everyone's afraid to touch? We reverse-engineer it, document it, and rebuild it properly — same functionality, modern architecture, maintainable by someone other than the person who wrote it.
You sell the cell, we build the software that ships with it. Operator interfaces, configuration tools, monitoring dashboards — branded as yours, maintained by us, designed to make your product more valuable.
Two weeks. Fixed scope. We find the problems or you don't pay.
We map the real workflow. Every manual step, every workaround, every file that gets touched between input and output.
We stress-test it. What breaks when inputs change? What fails when the operator skips a step? We find it before your customers do.
A technical document. What's broken, what's fixable, what it costs. Prioritized by impact. Whether you hire us or not.
We work with automation integrators and OEMs doing $2M to $50M in revenue. Companies with real engineering teams who need software support, not a complete outsource. You should have at least one active project where software is the bottleneck. We're built for the intersection of software and industrial hardware.
Not a fit? Websites. Mobile apps. PLC ladder logic. Staff augmentation. Tire-kicker projects. If that's what you need, we'll point you to someone who can help — but it's not us.
No discovery phase that drags on for months. No "alignment workshops." We start with the audit, then move straight into delivery.
We fix the highest-impact problem from the audit. Working code tested against your real files and configs.
We work down the backlog. Each deliverable is documented, tested, delivered.
Handoff or continued support. You own everything either way.
Typical duration: 3–6 months
Typical result: 10–30 engineering hours recovered weekly.
Every automation company evaluates software vendors the same way: can they code? Do they hit deadlines? What's the rate?
Nobody asks the question that actually determines whether the project succeeds:
Do you understand what we're building well enough to make decisions without us?
That's the difference. A generic developer needs you to specify every detail. They build exactly what you described, which is never exactly what you needed. Then you iterate, and iterate, and iterate — and your lead engineer ends up managing the project anyway.
We make engineering decisions. When we hit an edge case in your post-processor, we don't file a ticket and wait. We understand the kinematics well enough to propose a solution. When your MES integration throws unexpected data, we know enough about the production context to handle it correctly.
Your lead engineer costs you $150–200K fully loaded. If they spend 30% of their time on software problems they shouldn't be solving, that's $45–60K/year in misallocated salary — plus the opportunity cost of the engineering work they're not doing.
A single programming overrun on a customer job can cost $10–50K in unbillable hours. If it happens twice a year, you've already paid for an engagement with us.
A lost customer because your software couldn't deliver the data they required? That's $100K+ in lifetime value, gone.
The audit costs less than a single bad hire's first month. And unlike the hire, you'll know within two weeks whether we can help.
Our team works remotely across North America. For most of the engagement, that's all you need — the code doesn't care where it's written.
But when it matters — commissioning, floor testing, integration with physical hardware — we show up. We've stood next to cells at 2 AM debugging timing issues. We understand that some problems only reveal themselves on real iron.
Timelines: We don't do open-ended retainers. Every engagement has a defined scope, deliverables, and end date. You'll know what you're getting and when.
Ownership: Everything we build is yours. Code, documentation, architecture decisions. If you want to bring it in-house later, you can — and we'll help with the handoff.
You started this company to build automation systems, not to manage software projects. Every hour your best people spend fighting code is an hour they're not spending on the work that actually differentiates you.
We handle the software so you can focus on what you're good at: designing, building, and delivering world-class automation.
Or contact me directly at aaron@opreto.com
Aaron is a tinkerer and builder who has adopted the rigorous discipline of engineering and made a career out of iterating products in various capacities, with over 20 years of software development and hardware design experience.
Professionally, he has worked in advanced research and development of autonomous vehicles, manufacturing automation, and developing diverse embedded systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor.
He enjoys building communities, and co-founded Windsor's first hackerspace, Hackforge. He is an electronics hobbyist, musician, and local history buff and spends his free time participating in these activities with other enthusiasts.
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