Case Studies
Find out how our customers grow together with FANUC. In our Case Studies they share their experience operating, building and automating with FANUC products.
Discover the Impact of FANUC Automation on Our Customers
Welcome to FANUC's Case Studies page, where innovation meets application.
Dive into real-world examples of how our cutting-edge automation solutions are transforming industries across the globe. From enhancing manufacturing efficiency to pioneering advancements in robotics, our case studies showcase the tangible benefits and success stories of businesses that have partnered with FANUC.
Explore how our commitment to precision, reliability, and continuous improvement is driving productivity and growth for companies just like yours. Join us in exploring the future of automation.
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A Good Grip on Machining: ROBODRILL Provides Six-Fold Increase in Capacity
With rising global demand for robots, Grip GmbH needed more machining centre capacity to enhance productivity and reduce costs. They chose FANUC's advanced ROBODRILL 𝛼-D21M𝑖B5ADV machining centres, known for speed, precision, reliability, and flexibility, even for single component lots. These machines, featuring a FANUC robot and an innovative tool and workpiece handling system, enable unmanned production of small series and individual parts. This solution boosted Grip GmbH's machining capacity nearly six-fold.
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A Safe Space for Implant Machining
Machine tending (loading and unloading) is one of the most popular applications for an industrial robot thanks to the elimination of labour costs and higher production throughput. However, in a busy industrial plant, how is it possible to ensure the safety of employees in close proximity to such a fast and powerful installation? The use of FANUC Dual Check Safety technology at world-leading medical technology company Smith+Nephew, demonstrates the optimal solution.
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AKE Deploys FANUC Robots to Steer Success at Nexteer
Nexteer Automotive is taking advantage of nine high-performance industrial robots from FANUC to automate the manufacturing of steering gear components required for BMW. Installed by process automation specialist AKE Robotics, the plant is seeing new levels of process productivity and reliability.
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Assembly Order Picking with Two Robots on a 13 Metre Traversing Axis
Automating a production line can be done flexibly and in a small space. Customised solutions and safety software functions are a key element for successful implementation.
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Automated Painting Line is State-Of-The-Art
In the manufacturing industry, painting and coating are among the most inconsistent processes to complete manually. Application speed, paint thickness and distance to the surface are extremely difficult for operators to perform without unintentional deviation. The answer is to adopt robots, in particular FANUC P-series paint robots, which have been developed especially for this challenging production process.
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Automating the Machining of Large Ring-Shaped Bearings with Robots
A robotic cell was created to machine large ring-shaped bearings. A FANUC R-2000𝑖C/210L robot, with a 210-kg capacity and 3D Vision Sensor, loads and unloads rings into a vertical CNC lathe. Mikron Plus used FANUC's CNC Servo Learning Oscillation to break long chips into smaller pieces. This solution increased productivity, reduced costs, and ensured high accuracy and quality while minimising labour dependency.
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Automation is the Best Medicine at DEMO
A key player in the pharmaceutical industry, significantly improved its production capabilities with FANUC's automated solutions. By integrating FANUC robots, DEMO optimised the filling, packaging, and labeling processes, resulting in enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and overall productivity in their operations.
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Break Up Long Chips with FANUC Servo Learning Oscillation Function
Long chips from machining operations disrupt machine function. ETASIS, a Turkish tool producer, sought a solution. FANUC’s CNC offers the Servo Learning Oscillation Function, which oscillates the tool along the cutting direction, maintaining quality and reducing cleanup. This solution is essential for robotic machine tending and eliminates the need for chip-breaking equipment. ETASIS is highly satisfied with the results.
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CNC Lathe Builder Takes Control of Production with FANUC
In a world of increasingly complex engineering components, machine tools require ever-more capabilities and functions. The humble lathe, a mainstay of the machining industry, is a case in point. The SMB brand of Türkiye-based Akim Metal today builds lathes with servo-controlled twin turrets, programmable steady rests, live tools, programmable tailstock and integrated automation. To provide optimal process control in the hunt for ever higher component quality, repeatability and productivity, the company takes advantage of FANUC CNC systems.
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Cake Cutting With Ultrasonic Precision
Bottlenecks in production are often caused by time-consuming manual precision activities. In such cases, an innovative but simple automation step can multiply the production volume.
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Ceramic Plant Bowled Over by Capability of FANUC Robots
When a factory installs its first FANUC robot, such are the benefits available that other robots typically soon follow. Among those providing testimony to this fact is leading ceramic manufacturer Apulum. Following the installation of its first FANUC robot in 2014, several more have since taken up their place in the company’s finishing process. Apulum is now looking to enhance its packaging operations with FANUC robots.
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Cobot Relieves Workers of Physical Strain
Quality checks and packaging can be physically demanding. However, the integration of collaborative robots can significantly enhance the ergonomics of such activities.
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Cooker Hood Manufacturer Extracts the Advantages of FANUC Robots
The co-operation between FANUC and extractor hood manufacturer Silverline, which started with a special automated bonding project in 2015, has led to a total of 17 robots working across the company’s factory in Turkey. FANUC regularly sees this kind of outcome, where taking the initial leap into robot investment leads to an almost immediate realisation that manufacturing can reach entirely new performance levels.
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Cosmetics Manufacturer Sees the Beauty of FANUC Automation
Erkul Cosmetics in Turkey benefits from a myriad of quality and efficiency benefits provided by various high-performance FANUC automation products. This fast-growing cosmetics enterprise is looking to set a benchmark for manufacturing in its sector, supported by the competitive gains that FANUC solutions provide.
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ESOMA Restores CNC Grinding Machines to like‑new Performance with FANUC Retrofit Solutions
Retrofitting legacy machine tools is a strategic way to extend lifecycle, improve performance and secure long term productivity. For ESOMA, a specialist in retrofit services, combining engineering expertise with advanced FANUC CNC technology enables the transformation of existing grinding machines into modern, high precision solutions.
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EUROEDIL Enjoys Faster Cutting Rates and Higher Throughput with FANUC Machines
With its new FANUC machines in-site, EUROEDIL has increased its cutting rate and throughput to meet rising volume demands from customers. Moreover, the accuracy and precision of the company’s die-cutting tools have improved noticeably.
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Elsa Group is Top of the Food Chain With FANUC Service
Specifying and acquiring an industrial robot is often a company’s first step on its journey to an automated future based on higher productivity and repeatability. However, partnering with a robot vendor that is able to offer the highest levels of customer support is paramount in order to achieve complete project success, from commissioning and training to machine service and maintenance.
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Exemplary reliability: 35-year-old FANUC wire EDM still in daily use
What does it take to become confident in a machine tool brand? While factors such as machining quality, productivity and efficiency all contribute to customer satisfaction, reliability typically provides most peace-of-mind. German tool and mould-making specialist Kress Funkenerosion can provide pertinent testimony in support of this notion. Acquiring its first FANUC EDM machine in 1990, the FANUC Tape Cut W2 still runs every day at this busy manufacturing company. Unsurprisingly, Kress has since invested in 12 FANUC models over the years.
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FANUC CNC Helps Turn Pipe Dream Into Reality
Any builder of custom machinery will say that choosing the right control system is paramount to project success. And when the machine in question has multiple axes that require simultaneous control at high speeds with ultra-precise accuracy, FANUC has the optimal CNC solutions available. Unique Method, a Hungary-based builder of custom laser cutting machinery, is among a growing number that have discovered this fact for themselves.
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FANUC CNC and Robots Provide the Key to Success
The right machine control and robot automation processes can drive major increases in efficiency and connectivity for Industry 4.0 as Giuliani, a specialist in transfer machines for processing locks and keys can testify. The company has been cooperating with FANUC for more than 20 years.
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FANUC Cobot Brings Flexibility to Vertical Lathe Operations
Famar, an Italian builder of vertical lathes, has integrated a bin picking system enabled by a FANUC collaborative robot (cobot) into its recently developed Ciao 6 machine. The system facilitates the recognition, picking and handling of parts from tote bins to and from the machine’s conveyor, making the application flexible and adaptable to different components.
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FANUC Cobot Helps GER4TECH Make its Move
Developing a new robot requires expertise, experience and often collaboration with partners who have specialised knowledge in specific technology fields. So, when GER4TECH wanted a specialist in collaborative robots to bring advanced capabilities to its new autonomous mobile robot (AMR), the company reached out to FANUC.
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FANUC IoT System Boosts Machine Uptime at Lettner
As any manufacturing business grows, so does the need to impart better production monitoring and control. In the digital age, increasing numbers are turning to PC-based IoT software tools. But which one to select? As Lettner Metallbearbeitung reveals, there are many arguments in favour of MT-LINK𝑖 from FANUC.
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FANUC Machines are Hot-shot Performers at Injection Moulder
The plastics industry is under pressure to enhance its sustainability. Here, FANUC ROBOSHOT all-electric injection moulding machines are proving an increasingly popular and proactive way for plastic product OEMs and contract moulding shops to reduce their energy consumption, drive down bills and minimise carbon footprint.
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FANUC Provides Vision of the Future at ZAP
While machining can benefit greatly from the adoption of a machine-tending robot, the addition of 3D cameras introduces an extra level of intelligence that leads to autonomous production and particular benefits for manufacturers.
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FANUC Provides the Missing Link at ZPM
When ZPM wanted to increase its machine and robot utilisation, support the company’s vertically integrated manufacturing strategy and map its output more precisely, it turned to FANUC’s MT-LINK𝑖. With this advanced software, manufacturers like ZPM can supervise and manage data from one to 2,000 machines, robots and PLC systems.
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FANUC ROBOCUT Machines Underpin Success at Leading Injection Mould Manufacturer
Haidlmair, a top injection mould specialist, invested in two more FANUC ROBOCUT wire EDM machines, continuing a decades-long partnership and legacy of precision.