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Toepassingen in de automotive industrie behoren tot de meest veeleisende automatiseringstaken in de hele industrie. Natuurlijk zijn hoge assnelheden en een hoge productiviteit basisprincipes, maar in dit specifieke project stonden precisie en herhaalbaarheid ook hoog op de prioriteitenlijst. Met deze vele eisen in het achterhoofd kwam men uit bij de industriële robots van FANUC.

Het is geen sinecure om het volledige muntproces te automatiseren, van individuele munten tot afgewerkte gepalletiseerde dozen. Dat was echter de taak waar Swissmint, de federale Munt van Zwitserland, voor stond. Om dit complexe concept te verwezenlijken, zet Swissmint krachtige FANUC robots in voor taken zoals pick-and-place, assemblage van dozen en palletisering.

In a fast-moving fresh-food distribution plant, efficiency through automated packing operations is paramount to keep pace with demand. As a by-product of this approach, robot adopters also gain from less physical strain for employees, gentler handling of delicate produce like fruit and vegetables, and more a uniform and repeatable process. Among the latest factories to benefit from all this added value is the Bätterkinden, Switzerland facility of major food distributor Inoverde, where carrot filling, packing and palletising operations are benefiting from the introduction of three FANUC industrial robots.

In the manufacture of popular household appliances such as coffee grinders, a number of prerequisites determine production success. For instance, only clearly structured, efficient and target-orientated processes will result in the required levels of production reliability. Achieving this ambition becomes significantly more realistic using automation, as market leader Eugster/Frismag AG can testify following its adoption of 14 FANUC LR Mate industrial robots and FANUC ZDT (Zero Down Time), which now enable the continuous automated assembly of a coffee grinder every 7 seconds.

Automated CNC machining cells comprising various machine tools and robots require astute design and integration. So why not simplify the process by turning to the world’s most prominent manufacturer of both CNC machine tools and robots: FANUC. That was precisely the strategy of RADMOT, a major Poland-based provider of machining services when it wanted to implement a new CNC milling cell involving three machining centres and two robots that could run unmanned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – without any collisions between robots.