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Photos of the Robland Factory

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Workers assemble a batch of panel saws on the floor of the Robland plant.
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A fully-assembled X31 combination machine awaits inspection before shipment.
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An inspector adjusts the sliding table of this X31 machine for parallelism to the blade arbor. Tolerance is .02 mm over the length of a test bar mounted on the saw's arbor
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This turret adjacent to a huge CNC milling center holds 60 different cutting tools, which are selected by the machine as needed to drill and mill machine bases and tables. Robland has two of these enormous machines and is making room for another. Such automation increases precision in the finished machine without inflating prices.
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Jointer tables are surfaced flat with a heavy-duty, reciprocating scraping machine. More sophisticated methods such as surface grinding and Blanchard grinding are reserved for more critical parts such as tablesaw and shaper tables.
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This panel saw has been selected from among the day's production for a thorough real-world test before it may be shipped.

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