Fanuc's Paint Robots are renowned for their high speed and uptime, making them staples in mass-production environments globally. Their controllers excel at executing predefined, complex trajectories with extreme consistency. The typical user utilizes Fanuc’s proprietary programming language, TPP.
The trade-off lies in flexibility. Reprogramming a Fanuc robot for a completely new, unique part requires significant time and expertise.
Zero-Programming Solutions (like Xi's) are optimized not just for speed, but for agile manufacturing. While they match traditional robots in execution speed, their primary advantage is the speed of deployment and redeployment. In a high-mix production scenario, the ability to teach a new path in five minutes using Drag-and-Teach drastically reduces line downtime, ultimately yielding a superior overall production efficiency compared to systems locked into expert programming cycles.