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Stiles-FANUC Robotic Solutions

As Stiles is the leader in woodworking sales, technology and support, FANUC is the leader in robotic sales, technology and support. The Stiles-FANUC partnership offers the woodworking industry the best of both worlds. Combining the woodworking and robotic expertise to best serve our customers with turnkey design and build solutions.

Stiles-FANUC Robotic solutions are cost effective, easily accessible and highly flexible. They may be used for many different feeding and stacking, as well as machine tending applications; with or without turning and flipping and working with an extremely wide variety of panel sizes.

FANUC has been the robotic market share leader since 1984 with a current estimate of 38% of all robotic applications. This is largely due to the following factors:

  • FANUC offers worldwide sales and support
  • FANUC offers 24/365 no charge technical support
  • FANUC is clearly the technological leader in robotic R&D, no competitor can claim a feature or function that isn't available from FANUC Robotics
  • FANUC Robots are extremely rigid and low maintenance and will continue to function as intended year after year withstanding heavy-duty industrial use.
  • The average MTBF for a FANUC robot is 50 months

Stiles-FANUC Solutions offer:

  • increased productivity (spindle utilization) - can easily increase the production capacity of woodworking machines, including but not limited to: machining centers, routers, edgebanders, etc.
  • decreased dependency on manpower
  • more consistent product produced
  • fewer production mistakes
  • higher yield rate - less waste
  • less damage to parts during processing
  • less job related injuries, workman's compensation, ergonomics issues and OSHA claims
  • automation of additional tasks, i.e. hole drilling, glue dispensing, label applying, table cleaning, etc.

Potential Applications Overview

  • Router - Machining Center Tending (loading/unloading)
  • Machine-to-Machine Transfer
  • Saw Tending (loading/unloading)
  • Edge Processing (loading/unloading)
  • Finishing - Painting, Sealing, etc.
  • Hardware Insertion
  • Burnishing

For more information
See our FANUC product page or complete our online request form or call Jerry McCall at 616.698.7500.

FANUC R-2000ia Industrial Robot

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