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May 13, 2024

Why Welding Robots and Cobots are Becoming Essential

For years, automating welding was about producing better quality and consistency. While that’s still true, there is a bigger reason why many manufacturers and fabricators are using robotic welding tod...

7 min read

April 9, 2024

How FANUC Goes Above and Beyond to Support Machine Tool Builders Integrating FANUC Controls

Change is hard and that’s why FANUC helps machine tool builders make the FANUC CNC switch!Even though FANUC is one of the most popular CNC platforms throughout the world and is consistently voted by C...

5 min read

March 18, 2024

Why Automation Operators Now Need System-Level Skills

As businesses all over the world face an ever-increasing labor shortage, robotics and automation have become a popular solution. And out of the four million robots installed globally, over a quarter o...

4 min read

March 14, 2024

CRX Cobot Helps Cut Aerospace Safety Task From 12 Hours to 10 Minutes

By combining the flexibility of an industry-proven optical gage and the easy-to-use FANUC collaborative robot, a new automated measurement system dramatically improves aircraft part inspection through...

4 min read

June 16, 2023

How to Use Custom HMI in Your FANUC Cobot

The FANUC Tablet Teach Pendant Plug-in SDK allows you to create unique graphical icons and screens.Cobots are flexible for all types of applications, and with FANUC’s Tablet Teach Pendant (TP) Plug-in...

3 min read

June 12, 2023

FANUC Offers CNC Educational Tools for All Needs

From portable tabletop simulators to ROBODRILLs, FANUC has a wide range of offerings ready to upskill today’s CNC workforce.The manufacturing industry needs CNC operators and programmers, which is why...

4 min read

April 5, 2023

Cobots and 3D Vision for Autonomous Order Fulfillment

FANUC’s newest autonomous order fulfillment, bin transfer, and shelving system helps supply chain businesses overcome the labor shortage.At ProMat 2023 in Chicago this past March, robots dominated the...

3 min read

March 10, 2023

Now is a Great Time to Automate Your Finishing Process

Quick. Quality. Inexpensive. You can have two, but you can’t have all three. We’ve all heard the phrase, but what does it mean when talking about automation – and more specifically about automation in...

7 min read

February 21, 2023

How Cobots Tend 3D Printers Around the Clock

Increasing customer orders prompted Athena 3D Manufacturing to automate its 3D printing production.Athena 3D is a leading additive manufacturing service bureau located in Tempe, AZ, that prints parts ...

4 min read

February 16, 2023

Mounting a Cobot on an AMR for Flexible Machine Tending

Companies all over the world are evaluating their production operations to determine how to increase productivity. That’s a key reason why the demand for robotics and automation is growing at a rapid ...

8 min read

February 10, 2023

Need Predictive Maintenance Capabilities? Get FANUC AI Servo Monitor

Knowing how to prevent unplanned downtime is key to any productive and profitable operation, which is why FANUC created AI Servo Monitor.AI Servo Monitor automatically creates a baseline model of the ...

2 min read

December 21, 2022

Why Programming a FANUC Robot is Easier Than Ever Before

When it comes to programming a FANUC industrial robot, recent software enhancements have made things much easier, thanks in large part to FANUC’s latest CRX collaborative robots. A key reason that FAN...

3 min read

November 11, 2022

10 Questions to Determine if a Cobot Is Right for Your Machine Tending Application

With the global robotics market now predicted to reach $150 Billion by 2030, more businesses in many different industries are seeing the benefits of adding automation to their operations. Traditionall...

5 min read

September 28, 2022

Why End-of-Line Packaging Belongs on a Cobot

If you’re challenged with labor issues in your packaging and palletizing area, you’re not alone. These applications are often tedious and can lead to repetitive motion injuries. In a tight job market,...

4 min read

April 14, 2022

Automation ROI – A New Way to Transform Your Company

Consider this – you’re working on a plan to convince your management that robots and automation are the best way to address a production issue.  You’re sure to pique their interest when you present a ...

5 min read

March 1, 2022

Cobots Help Last Arrow Manufacturing Boost Productivity

Last Arrow Manufacturing, an Ohio-based contract manufacturer, needed a flexible automated solution to take on simple and repetitive welding projects to free up their skilled welders to do jobs that r...

2 min read

February 17, 2022

Advice for Metal Fabricators: Consider a Cobot

A recent report released by the Department of Labor states that a record 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September 2021 as job openings remained unchanged at 10.4 million.  So, while there are p...

5 min read

February 17, 2022

Where Manufacturers Find Automation-Skilled Workers

FANUC America’s diverse educational offerings helps employers both retrain and find skilled people for the future robotics and CNC workforce.More manufacturers see the business benefits of automating ...

5 min read

November 12, 2021

Machine Tool Builder Helps Retrofit Old Industrial PCs on Legacy CNC Machines

For four decades, Komo Machine Inc. has been building high-speed CNC routers and mill machines used in many different types of industries, from large aerospace manufacturers to single-machine Mom &amp...

4 min read

October 11, 2021

Will a Robot or Cobot Work for Your Small to Medium Shop?

Today, small and large manufacturing plants in North America are ramping up production, and many are considering using robots for the first time. Why now? Some shop owners are having a difficult time ...

4 min read

September 20, 2021

Dorabot Teams With FANUC America to Meet Demands for Innovative Robotic Fulfillment Solutions

Seasonality, labor shortages and increasingly fast turnaround times are just some of the issues that keep fulfillment and logistics managers awake at night.  During waking hours, bleary-eyed discussio...

3 min read

July 26, 2021

How a 5-Axis Shop Won a 30,000-Unit Aerospace Order

Kemco Aerospace Manufacturing invested in an automated robotic cell, increasing efficiency and production, to win a big customer order.Kemco Aerospace Manufacturing located in St. Louis, Missouri has ...

5 min read

June 9, 2021

Innovative and Reliable Paint Robots Built in the U.S.

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June 9, 2021

Training Manufacturing Workers of the Future

An inside look at how one technical college uses FANUC’s products to teach advanced automation skillsThe Racine campus of Gateway Technical College sits in the middle of a booming manufacturing hub in...

4 min read
SDK HMI

How to Use Custom HMI in Your FANUC Cobot

FANUC’s SDK enables custom UIs for Cobots, offering unique icons/​screens. Demonstrated in a bicycle assembly, it reduces third-party tool reliance.

3 min read
Crx robot tending

How Cobots Tend 3D Printers Around the Clock

Discover how Athena 3D achieved 247 lights-out production and doubled output with a FANUC CRX cobot, enhancing efficiency and scalability.

4 min read
Machine Tending
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Why End-of-Line Packaging Belongs on a Cobot

FANUC CRX cobots optimize your end-of-line packaging, offering increased efficiency, reduced labor, and enhanced safety for your operations.

4 min read
Picking & Packaging
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Advice for Metal Fabricators: Consider a Cobot

Welder shortage leads companies to FANUC’s CRX cobot: easy setup, user-friendly, cost-effective, with advanced features for varied welding needs.

5 min read
Fabricated Metals