Human-robot collaboration is driving the automotive industry into the future

Robots and CNC machines contribute significantly to production efficiency in the automotive sector, as they do across all industries worldwide. In today's environment where efficiency is one of the most critical benchmarks, robots enable companies that use this technology intelligently to stand out in the competitive landscape. Japanese giant FANUC provides comprehensive solutions for all needs through robots with different application characteristics and options designed to improve automotive production lines for use in the automotive industry across the globe. FANUC robots are manufactured in a wide range of models with lifting capacities ranging from 0.5kg to 2,300kg.

Robots provide time and energy savings in factories

FANUC solutions incorporating ready plug-and-play technologies that make installation as fast and easy as possible are particularly well-suited for use in forward-thinking smart factories of the future. While these ready-to-use technologies effectively minimize downtime, users can easily create their own solutions through simple menus according to their needs. Within the scope of efficient energy use, one of the era's greatest requirements, all FANUC products are designed with maximum energy efficiency in mind. FANUC addresses the maximum possible efficiency with the lowest energy consumption through smart energy-saving features and servo technology. FANUC products are developed to enable optimal use of factory space, encompassing many different factors beyond production volume, efficiency and speed.

FANUC technologies provide ideal solutions for the automotive sector

Robots are used in almost every stage of the production line in the automotive sector. Highly demanding tasks that require high efficiency, are repetitive and could pose risks to human health are among the most important reasons for the widespread preference for robots.

Lower maintenance costs and easy installation

FANUC manufactures robots used in automotive body production lines, primarily for spot welding, vehicle body component transfer, sealant application, arc welding, vehicle measurement and painting operations, in line with factory requirements. In addition, FANUC offers vision processing products, force sensors, trajectory acceleration options, robots known as ZDT, and IoT solutions that enable communication, monitoring and early problem detection among connected peripheral equipment. These systems allow potential issues to be identified before they occur. Beyond robots, FANUC utilizes CNC, laser, Power Motion, Robodrill, Roboshot and Robocut technologies on a single common platform, minimizing the need for additional interfaces and cabling. Solutions include versatile assembly configurations as well as fast and compact spot robots with small footprints, compact machining centers and intelligent DCS (Dual Check Safety) software that allows precise determination of the robot's working area according to defined safety zones. Meanwhile, FANUC's M-2000 robot series with four robot models in the 900kg to 2,300kg carrying capacity range, which plays a role in vehicle assembly transfer, demonstrates its advantages over traditional conveyors through higher efficiency, lower maintenance costs and easy installation.

Over one hundred thousand installed robots

FANUC Turkey General Manager Teoman Alper Yiğit notes that FANUC has over one hundred thousand installed robots operating in the production lines of automotive giants in the Americas, Asia and European markets. Yiğit states that the world's leading reputable automotive manufacturers use FANUC technologies that continue to develop with each passing day. Expressing that in the future equipped with IoT technologies, the automotive sector will achieve productivity levels well beyond today's standards, Yiğit predicts that in coming years more advanced technologies will be used that can operate interconnected through networks, offering decision-making and planning capabilities. Drawing attention to FANUC's provision of modular yet uninterrupted data flow as a company, Alper Yiğit continued as follows: "We are in the midst of an entirely new production model built on high energy efficiency, maximum space savings and human-machine collaboration, and with each passing day we are developing new models that will bring about radical changes. In the world of the future, robots will perform all challenging tasks, enabling people to devote their valuable time to lighter, more skilled or demanding tasks."