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Robots are productive, reliable, consistent, efficient and economic across a host of industrial applications. Loading and unloading crates to and from pallets as part of an industrial washing process is a case in point. However, what happens when the starting position of the crates is random? In such instances, FANUC is finding that its 3D vision-enabled robots are proving increasingly popular.

Dovy Keukens is a real success story: from a start-up using a flax shed in 1980 to a 55,000 m2 state-of-the art production facility today with around 430 employees. This progressive manufacturer of custom kitchens is one of the most sophisticated around, and sitting at the heart of its production plant are several six-axis industrial robots from FANUC.

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.