About LIGC Robotics
An independent robotics advisory and sourcing company.
LIGC Robotics is an independent commercial robotics advisory and sourcing company that helps businesses evaluate where robotics fits, compare available solutions, and find the right robot for the job.
We are not built around a robot. We are built around the operation — the work as it actually runs, and the question of where, if anywhere, a machine would improve it enough to justify the change.
Why operations come first
Robotics should fit the operation.
The operation should not have to be redesigned around a robot simply because the robot is impressive.
The usual way to think about robotics starts with the machine and looks for somewhere to put it. LIGC starts at the other end. We want to understand what work is being performed, how it moves from one step to the next, where people and material wait, where the handoffs are, where the repetitive and the hazardous work sits, where labor is being consumed, and where mistakes and rework happen. Only then does the question of a robot make sense.
That order matters, because a robot changes more than the step it performs. It can move a bottleneck instead of removing it. It brings its own charging, maintenance, supervision and downtime. And it can make one part of a process faster while making the whole process worse. The right question is not “where can we put a robot?” It is “where, if anywhere, can robotics improve the operation enough to justify the change?”
Founder
James Chaires
Founder, LIGC Robotics
James has spent more than twenty-five years working in and around business and industrial operations — in operations leadership, plant management, process improvement, industrial systems and water treatment operations. That is the side of the table the customer sits on, and it is the side LIGC Robotics was built from.
Years of running real processes teach a particular habit: you stop looking at the task in front of you and start looking at the whole line. Where does the work come from, where does it go, what is waiting, what breaks, what does uptime actually cost, and what happens upstream and downstream when you change one thing. LIGC applies that habit to robotics. The robotics knowledge is the research we do so that our customers do not have to; the operating judgement is what we brought with us.
What an operator looks for first
- What work is actually being performed
- How the workflow moves from one step to the next
- Where people wait, and where material waits
- Where the handoffs occur
- Where repetitive work occurs
- Where hazardous or undesirable work occurs
- Where the bottlenecks are
- Where labor is being consumed
- Where mistakes and rework happen
- Where uptime matters most
- Where a robot might create a new bottleneck rather than solve one
- What happens upstream and downstream if one part of the process changes
How LIGC approaches the robotics market
We know the market so that you do not have to.
Robotics does not stand still. LIGC researches commercial robot manufacturers, platforms and applications continuously, and develops relationships across manufacturers, distributors, integrators and other robotics-industry sources so that when a task calls for a machine, we know what is actually available, what it costs, and who stands behind it.
Every candidate is judged against the same written standard — eighteen factors covering fit, safety, physical capability, support, business risk, cost and the quality of the evidence itself. That standard is public, because a buyer should be able to hold any vendor to it whether or not they ever work with us.
The company
Where we are, and where we work.
One location. No offices elsewhere. Where a job needs us on site beyond the region, we say whether that is practical rather than implying a presence we do not have.
The company
- Founder
- James Chaires
- Based in
- El Paso, Texas
- On-site work
- Available across the El Paso / Borderplex region, West Texas and Southern New Mexico, where appropriate to the engagement.
- Elsewhere
- Remote research, evaluation and advisory support for organizations across the United States.
- Legal entity
- LIGC Robotics is a business of LIGC LLC.
- Contact
- [email protected]
What LIGC Robotics is not
We are direct about what we are not.
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Not a manufacturer
LIGC does not build robots and has no products of its own.
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Not a dealer
LIGC holds no inventory and is not an authorised dealer or distributor for any brand.
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Not an integrator
LIGC does not engineer robot cells and is not the technical integrator on a deployment.
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Not a certifier
LIGC does not perform machine-safety certification. Where a deployment needs qualified review, we say so and help you find it.
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Not a repair depot
LIGC does not carry out repairs. Parts and support work is sourcing assistance: identifying the component and finding you a route to it.
Those boundaries are why the rest of this site is allowed to sound confident. We sell judgement before equipment, and a recommendation not to buy is a valid outcome.
Next step
Start with a conversation about the work.
Describe the operation as it runs today. We will tell you plainly whether robotics belongs in it — including when the answer is no.