Automation

Automation solutions from HOMAG deliver efficiency and precision for the woodworking industry, furniture manufacturing, small and medium-sized enterprises, and carpentry businesses. Custom design, made-to-measure production, and fast delivery require smart manufacturing with strong connectivity and optimal material flow. Total process control is essential — whether for series production or batch size one. This is our area of expertise, and we offer the best technical solutions for your production of tomorrow.

"In addition to the know-how and experience of the employees, highly flexible production lines and the most modern control techniques are used in manufacturing to cope with the complexity of the products."

Jürgen Schmitt, Production Manager, Leicht Küchen

Modern manufacturing depends on efficiency, flexibility, and precision. HOMAG offers customized automation technologies that enable both large industrial companies and small and medium-sized businesses to optimize their production processes.

What are the benefits of automation?

• Optimize processes
• Increase productivity and speed
• Improve accuracy and reliability
• Reduce errors

Our solutions are designed to make your production more efficient and sustainable. Automation creates competitiveness, simplifies manufacturing processes, drives digitalization, and reduces costs, leading to more sustainable production.

Why choose HOMAG automation solutions?

• Increased efficiency: reduce throughput times and increase productivity.
• Flexibility: adapt production to specific requirements — ideal for individual customer orders.
• Precision: high dimensional and angular accuracy for first-class product quality.
• Process reliability: minimize errors and downtime.
• Resource conservation: intelligent use of materials reduces waste.
• Integration: seamless integration into existing production lines, system landscapes, and workshop environments.
• Scalability: expandable systems for growing requirements.

Automation in industrial furniture production

Automation and robotics have been important topics in the furniture industry for many years. The significance and possible applications of automation technologies in industrial furniture production are manifold. Innovative IT solutions play a decisive role in automating and optimizing processes. Maximum transparency and an overview of all order progress and production processes are prerequisites for successful automation. By using our solutions, you can achieve significant cost savings.

By automating production processes, you can increase efficiency, reduce errors, and minimize costs. Automated solutions also lead to time and cost savings in material logistics. Automated production processes and material logistics solutions have proven particularly successful in industrial furniture production, as they lead to higher efficiency, improved quality, and faster and more cost-effective production. In the future, automation in the furniture industry will continue to increase and open up new potential.

What are the advantages of automating your production facility?

1. More efficient production: use robots and automated technologies to carry out production processes faster and more precisely.
2. Improved quality: higher precision and quality of the furniture produced.
3. Cost savings: greater efficiency through the automation of production and logistics processes reduces costs.
4. Shorter delivery times: faster, more efficient order processing through automated packaging and logistics.
5. Reduced waste: automation reduces errors and waste, which results in lower costs.

Automation for joineries and carpentry workshops

Monotonous and heavy work is no longer in demand. Despite the individualized production of batch size 1 orders, many work steps in joineries and carpentry workshops can be automated. Panel storage systems, stacking units, robots, and return systems take over the tedious tasks.

Examples of automation solutions in joineries and carpentry workshops

• Automated panel storage for pre-production and sorting of panels, even outside working hours.
• Handling portal with vacuum lifter for labeling panels before cutting and preparing for nesting CNC.
• Nesting CNC machining centers for cutting and processing panels, including automatic disposal of waste strips.
• Nesting picker for automatic workpiece recognition and distribution onto pallets.
• Production cells with CNC machining centers and robotic handling.

What are the benefits of automation and robotics for joineries?

• High production capacity with low staffing requirements.
• Increased productivity through unmanned working hours, e.g. overnight.
• A boost in daily panel production.
• Potential for additional shifts and further growth.

Storage, saw, nesting

The movement and management of large, bulky panels in joineries can be a challenge. The decision whether to deliver material just-in-time from the supplier directly to the saw, or to store it in-house before cutting, depends on production planning, delivery times, and material throughput. Various hybrid forms of panel organization are possible, such as timely and sorted delivery of individual jobs or combinations of storage, saw, and nesting systems. The nesting method — which combines cutting, formatting, drilling, and milling in a single process — can be a perfect solution for your workshop.

Workpiece return systems for automated edge processing

Return systems from HOMAG are perfectly matched to edge banding machines and increase their efficiency. Through intelligent part return, the production line becomes an automated cell operated by a single person. The edge banding machine with integrated part return and stacking offers significantly reduced throughput times, improved quality, and better working conditions through automated processes.

• Optimization of the edge banding process: automation and organization of material flow.
• Automation and ergonomics: one operator is sufficient for the entire process.
• Wide range of applications: suitable for batch size 1 to series production.
• Gentle handling: air cushion tables and vacuum traverses improve processing quality.
• Cost-effectiveness: high profitability and fast amortization for businesses of all sizes.

Automation in prefabricated timber construction

A high degree of prefabrication in the factory is playing an increasingly important role in timber construction. For every investment planned or made today, it is crucial to increase productivity and reduce costs by automating production steps. Another key aspect is maintaining the high quality of element production while enabling weather-independent manufacturing, along with flexible production of a wide variety of elements without changeover times.

In the prefabricated housing industry, robots enable the fast, cost-efficient, and precise construction of timber houses with a high degree of variation. Robots work under time pressure without fatigue or breaks, as fast and as precisely as required for the construction of multi-story timber buildings. With robotic support, companies can impress homeowners with the speed at which timber houses can be built — even when their order books are full.

Robotics, robotic handling, and robotic cells

Robots demonstrate their strengths especially when handling heavy components, such as loading CNC machining centers or palletizing and packaging. They also take over repetitive and monotonous assembly tasks, and can work night shifts autonomously without fatigue or breaks. This makes them attractive even to skilled workers and enhances the company's appeal on the job market, allowing employees to be assigned to more engaging and meaningful tasks. The use of robots in material handling offers numerous advantages, including outstanding part quality: robots operate with vacuum lifters that are gentle on materials and avoid damage that can occur during manual handling.

"People are our most valuable asset, not the machines."

Oliver Bantli, Master Carpenter and Owner

Robotic solutions for the furniture industry and prefabricated house manufacturers

Robotic cells from HOMAG increase productivity and are suitable for a wide range of tasks — handling, laminating, edge processing, drilling, milling, assembling, packaging, sorting, and order picking. Cell control systems simplify operation for both series and batch-size-one production, with easy maintenance, high availability, and improved reproducibility. State-of-the-art 3-, 4-, and 5-axis techniques process not only solid wood and wood-based panels, but also demanding materials such as Plexiglas, Alucobond, and gypsum boards.

Robotic solutions in craft businesses

Robotics is not just a solution for industry — it is also highly relevant for craft businesses. Modern robotic technology can significantly boost productivity in small workshops and meaningfully complement traditional craftsmanship. Whether in joineries, cabinetmaking shops, or timber construction companies, the use of robots — e.g. at CNC machining centers — offers efficient and flexible solutions. Robotics increases overall productivity, operates around the clock without breaks, and ensures consistently high quality. By using robotic cells, you can save time, reduce the workload for skilled workers, and organize personnel more flexibly.

Transport and storage technology: maximum capacity and efficiency

Storage solutions from HOMAG maximize your storage capacity by making optimal use of available hall height. The STORETEQ series transforms limited space into efficient storage areas, with space optimization, versatility and energy efficiency, and automated panel handling. The benefits include increased production, material savings, reduced physical strain on employees, and faster production with the same number of employees.

Sorting, buffering, and picking systems

Our systems ensure maximum transparency and process reliability in material flow. They offer flexible combinations and high storage capacity, with material flow optimization through sorting of randomly arriving parts, high flexibility to adapt to different material sizes, and gentle handling to prevent damage.

Contact us for a free consultation

We will create a customized offer tailored to your needs. Let our automation and robotics solutions inspire you and take your production processes to the next level.