Guide To Suppliers

Handling operations are now the most popular application for industrial robot purchases, representing 52 percent of UK installations in 2021. But as well as speed and dexterity, today’s manufacturers are also looking to maintain rigorous hygiene standards when automating their handling applications.

Over 600 visitors converged at the annual FANUC UK Open House event in Ansty Park, Coventry between 2 and 4 November 2022, as the industrial automation community sought to address some of the key challenges and opportunities facing manufacturers today.

A 22-year partnership with FANUC has been hailed as a key factor in Icelandic firm Samey Robotics’ role in revolutionising the international supply chain for fresh fish.

It’s no secret that, despite its position as a top 10 manufacturing economy, the UK lags well behind its global counterparts when it comes to our use of industrial robots.

The newly-launched Economy 2030 Inquiry represents a major opportunity to generate the biggest economic policy change in a generation and could finally hold the key to unleashing British productivity, according to FANUC UK’s Managing Director, Tom Bouchier.

FANUC has expanded its range of integrated image processing solutions with the introduction of the 3DV/600 Vision Sensor.

With a view to tackling global skills shortages and the need to increase production flexibility, Fanuc has launched its first ever lightweight collaborative robot, the CRX-10iA.

Fanuc UK has expanded its range of industrial robots by introducing two new models: the M-20iD/25 handling robot, and the ARC Mate 120iD welding version.