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CNC | ROBOT | ROBOMACHINE

Who and what is FANUC

EOL - End Of Line Solutions

Improved Robot Features and Peripheral Intelligence

Shifting “Backwards” towards the process area

Q & A

FACTORY AUTOMATION NUMERICAL CONTROL

1956

Development of the first NC in

the Japanese private sector

1958

Shipping of the first

commercial NC

1972

Introduction of first CNC and

first Robodrill in Japan

1973

First CNC and Robodrill

installation in Europe

1974

Installation of

first industrial

robot in Japan

1975

Introduction of

first Robocut

in Japan

1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 2000 2010 TODAY 1995 1955

2012

Stronger than ever:

the yellow success story continues

1983

First FANUC robot

installation in Europe

1984

Development of first

Roboshot in Japan

1986

First installation of

Roboshot in Europe

2010

FANUC is the leading global

manufacturer of factory

automation

1977

Installation of first

Robocut in Europe

⅓ of the staff at our headquarter in Japan

are young and innovative engineers

in research and development

850 Employees in Europe

Top 10

ranked in Nikkei Index companies

Yellow surrounds you everywhere

Agriculture

Aerospace

Automotive

Energy

Construction

Wood

Die & Mold

Plastics

Metal

Glass

Beverage

Paper

Medical &

Pharma-

ceuticals

Electronics

Watch

Textile

Food

Cosmetics

Jewellery

Wherever you need us,

we are there

The yellow world

thinks green

Green thinking is an integral part of our philosophy. In our

whole production, our goal is to be as neutral to our

environment as possible, reducing our energy consumption

and carbon footprint.

Our products are engineered to optimise energy consumption

through intelligent energy management. The benefit to you:

higher productivity combined with significantly lower energy

consumption.

ECO friendly

Green

innovation

Sustainability

Motion-

optimisation

Waste-

management

Green

technology





Q & A

EOL – End Of Line Solutions

Robots… First used on a large scale to perform serial and uniform tasks in the automotive (heavy

loads, all kinds of welding and painting) or the early electronics production industry. As these robots

were built to work with “industrial” products, the first spin off was for similar, other uniform tasks as box

or bag palletizing. From there on it moved to other tasks as picking and packing with dedicated robots,

specially designed and built for the job.

EOL – End Of Line Solutions





Q & A


The future of robotics in general and more specific for the Food Industry is in the (1) Improvement of

the robots themselves and the equipment around it, the (2) Peripheral Intelligence.

This means that the robot becomes more suitable for specific tasks and it’s environment.

The use of “accepted” components and products in the design and production allows this evolution.

1. For robots it’s about eg. using durable epoxy coating which makes that a robot body has a smooth

and easy cleanable durable surface like on the M-3iA. Dedicated cleaning products can now be

used. An other option is to make a robot arm of Anodized Aluminum as the LRM-200iC/5WP

(Wash Proof). The Arm or Delta System itself is constructed in such a way that it Dust and Water

tight (IP67). Oil or grease are of the Food Grade type or even not used at all as in the M-430iA

series wrist. This was the first robot arm ever which received the USDA (United States Department

of Agriculture) approval for direct use in “Meat and Poultry”.

2. Peripheral Intelligence is about making a robot able to see, follow and grip or pluck. First of all, a

robot needs to know where “a product” is. Fix or random and a uniform shape or by nature. Fix and

uniform are easy… At random and shaped by nature is the challenge! For this task we need vision

systems, entirely depending of the task in needs to perform. Position, orientation and rotation,

color, size, special details, quality,…Once a product is recognized, it must be gripped or plucked.

This can be done for fix and uniform products with “simple” EOA -tools(End Of Arm) or specific

designed for the fruits of mother nature…


The robot picks only the mushrooms that have the desired size. Vision and image

processing determine the mushrooms that are to be picked.


Real and digitalized image of bell peppers. Development by Genicap en CWI, The

Netherlands .


By Lacquey, The Netherlands, in

cooperation with TU Delf – 3ME

BioMechanical Engineering.

Design by Schunk

Design by Festo





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Shifting „Backwards“ towards the processing area

This “shifting Backwards towards the processing area” could result into a Revolution in the Food

Industry. We are now able to combine all previous products and techniques to deliver solutions in an

environment where it was never possible before.

These specific robots, eyes and hands are now a true, affordable and durable long-term replacement

option for manual labor with increased quality and higher constant throughput improvement!

No longer the need for finding and keeping the workforce, training/experience, protective clothing or

additional other costs… You know this !


Installing 68 robots to process over 400,000 lettuces a day has helped a

Spanish business to maintain continuity of output and control of quality

together with reducing labor demands by 80%.


Pig Slaughter House by Nawi,

The Netherlands





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