The UK is the ninth largest manufacturing nation in the world, with a substantial £183bn worth of output. But just how precarious could that top table seat be if the UK continues its slow adoption of industrial automation? The Manufacturer’s Tom St John visited the FANUC UK headquarters in Coventry, where the proposed answers to this headache lie in building knowledge and future implementation into education programmes.
We visit all sorts of facilities across the UK and beyond, and we’ve seen some belters. FANUC is right up there. As we approached a row of stationary robots, behind a glass screen and coated in the trademark FANUC yellow, Brooke Tarrant, Marketing Specialist UK & Ireland said: “If you push that button the robots…
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