Supporting a Blue Chip OEM with UK Injection Moulding Machine Logistics

Project Snapshot

Client: Fanuc

Projects: OEM machinery logistics, UK-wide delivery and installation support

Sector: Plastic & Rubber

Locations: Coventry (warehouse) and nationwide UK delivery

Project Duration: Ongoing partnership (6+ years)

Value of assets moved: Roboshots vary from £100,000 to £500,00 depending on size and level of customisation

The Challenge and the Setting

Fanuc is a global OEM and one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial robots and CNC control systems. Their injection moulding machines (RoboShot) are manufactured in Japan and shipped to the UK, arriving at Fanuc’s customisation facility in Coventry, where they are customised to meet individual customer needs before being delivered nationwide.

Their assets require coordinated collection, transport, offloading, and precise positioning of these machines at end user sites across the UK. Each delivery must be executed with accuracy and care, reflecting the high standards expected by both Fanuc and their customers.

AIS Solution: A risk-led consistent approach built on experience

We have built a long standing, repeat partnership with Fanuc, based on trust, reliability, and a shared commitment to quality. We manage the safe handling of injection moulding machines from Fanuc’s Coventry warehouse through to final position at customer sites nationwide.

Our approach is deliberately risk led and methodical, driven by the expertise of our long serving engineering workforce. Planning begins well before delivery, with a detailed review of machine dimensions, weights, handling requirements, and any access or environmental constraints at both collection and delivery points.

By taking the time to fully understand each project, we are able to:

• Match our fleet and specialist lifting equipment precisely to the task
• Allocate experienced operators and engineers familiar with OEM machinery
• Develop detailed lifting plans and delivery sequences
• Safely manage transport into restricted or live environments where required

For new customer locations, we proactively undertake site surveys, assessing access routes, unloading points, internal movements, and final positioning. Clear communication and a structured approach ensure all parties are aligned, allowing installations to proceed smoothly and on schedule.

This planned, risk averse methodology minimises disruption, prevents delays, and ensures every machine arrives protected, positioned accurately, and ready for installation, safeguarding both the equipment and Fanuc’s reputation at every stage.

As part of the Ainscough Industrial Services Group, we are now even better positioned to support Fanuc’s growing customer base, with access to a broader fleet of specialist lifting equipment and a nationwide network of engineers and resources.

As a result, we provide Fanuc with a trusted logistics partner that continues to adapt with confidence as future requirements evolve.

“During my time in looking after the RoboShot project Business at Fanuc UK I have found Fleggs to be reliable, professional and flexible. I deal mainly with Kate Lingwood and Simon Rose both of who are a credit to the Flegg Projects business, always responsive to any e-mail, phone call or query I have. They feel more like friends then a supplier!

We supply a high-end piece of machinery and we need to trust that when it leaves our site and heads to our end customer that the transport company will represent the same values as Fanuc UK. We have had nothing but positive feedback about the professional manner that Flegg conduct themselves when on our customers sites.

There is never an obstacle that can’t be overcome, with the years of experience Flegg’s have of installing machinery even when there is millimetres to spare when getting one of our machines through a customers entrance they find a way. And we have been in this position where there has been millimetres to spare! Ask Simon!

Overall it’s the Trust that I have in the Team at Flegg’s as to why we use them time and time again. They also do what any good supplier should do, take the stress of it away from their customer, I send the machine information, collection and delivery information and they do the rest, no stress no hassle.”

James Pointer, BEng Hons, Project Manager, Fanuc