AUBURN HILLS, MI – A global supplier of robotics opened a huge new facility near Detroit this week that is expected to lead the company through the “manufacturing revolution.”

FANUC America’s new plant will help the company keep up with the worldwide “manufacturing revolution,” said President and CEO Mike Cicco, The Detroit News reports. Development of new manufacturing systems to provide solutions for companies’ individual needs will be part of the work.

The 461,000-square-foot FANUC America North Campus Robotics and Automation Facility opened in Auburn Hills on Tuesday, Oct. 22, according to a news release. The facility includes engineering, product development, manufacturing and warehousing departments for the company, which supplies robotics, CNCs, ROBOMACHINEs and Industrial IoT solutions.

FANUC products help manufacturers “maximize productivity, reliability and profitability,” the release said.

With the new campus, FANUC now occupies over one million square feet of building space in Southeast Michigan’s Oakland County, the release said. The company’s painting robots and automation software products have been designed and built in Michigan since 1982.

FANUC products are used in a range of industries including automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, e-commerce, food and beverage, medical device and pharmaceuticals, the release said.

Known for its robots that paint vehicles, the company hopes to move into new segments now that the new plant is open, The Detroit News reports.

The company is a subsidiary of Japan’s FANUC Corporation. FANUC America is headquartered at 3900 W. Hamlin Road in Rochester Hills. Its Michigan facilities are in Auburn Hills and Pontiac. Other campuses are in Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Houston; Huntington Beach, Calif.; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Montreal and Toronto, Canada; Pine Brook, N.J.; Birmingham Ala.; San Francisco; Seattle; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sao Paulo, and Manaus, Brazil; and Aguascalientes, Monterrey, and Queretaro, Mexico.

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