About
Built in a garage. Running in big plants.
RBR Automation is a custom machine builder in Louisville, Kentucky, focused on servo-driven automation for the filtration industry.
Our story
From hobby project to production floor
RBR started in 2022 as a hobby: one person, a workshop, and a stubborn interest in making servo motion do exactly what it was told. The first machines were small. The problems they solved were real, and word got around.
Today RBR builds production equipment for large filtration manufacturers. The scale has changed. The philosophy has not: understand the essentials of the customer’s process, stay inside the niche we know deeply, and build machines that are worth the effort because they do one job exceptionally well.
We don’t sell generic machines that need months of fine-tuning on your floor. If a standard product is the right answer for you, we’ll say so. If it isn’t, we’ll build the right one.
Capabilities
Everything under one roof
The people who design your machine are the same people who machine the parts, wire the panel, write the code, and run it at rate.
In-house machining
Fixtures, nests, adapters, and machine components made here. Design changes take hours, not weeks of vendor lead time.
Controls & panel build
Servo drives, PLCs, safety systems, and HMIs specified, built, and wired in-house to your plant standard.
Programming
Motion and PLC code written by the engineers who designed the machine. Clean, documented, and maintainable by your team.
Testing & acceptance
Every machine runs at rate with your material on our floor before it ships. You see it work before you sign off.
Platforms
What we program
Have a process that off-the-shelf machines can’t handle?
Tell us what you make and how fast you need to make it. We’ll tell you honestly whether a custom machine is worth building.