CASE STUDY: MITRE PLASTICS’ DIFFICULTY WITH INSERT HANDLING IS SOLVED WITH FANUC’S SIX-AXIS SIMPLICITY
In 2019, 50-year-old UK-based Mitre Plastics manufactured a high-volume brass insert part for an appliance manufacturer. Mitre Plastics asked an automation supplier to create a concept design using its FANUC ROBOSHOT -S220iB injection moulding machine to identify the manufacturing process. FANUC and Mitre Plastics worked together to create automated robotic merchandising for white goods. When FANUC