Fmb Maschinenbauges. Mbh & Co. Kg

Name

Fmb Maschinenbauges. Mbh & Co. Kg

Legal name

FMB Maschinenbaugesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Website

https://fmb-machinery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Machine Tool Automation

NAICS

Metalworking Machinery Manufacturing (33351), Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing (333515)

SIC

Metalworkg Machinery & Equipment (3540), Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types (3541)

akta.pro primary industry

Motion & Machine Control (CNC, Robotics Controllers, Servo/Motion Controllers) (IMAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Industrial Controllers & Control Systems (PLCs, PACs, CNC Controllers) (IMAHAHAH), CNC Machine Tools (Turning, Milling, Machining Centers) (IMAHADAA)

Keywords

• Bar feeders
• CNC automation
• Machine tool accessories
• Handling systems
• Industrial automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Faulbach

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Bar Feeders / Loading Magazines: Sale of loading magazines (Lademagazine) for automated feeding of material bars to turning machines. Product lines include turbo series (various sizes), micromag, minimag, and SL short loaders.
2. Handling Systems: Sale of industrial automation handling systems including unirobot (customized), easyload (standardized for simple tasks), and BASE (modular plug-and-play). Systems incorporate industrial robots from FANUC and YASKAWA.
3. Spare Parts: Dedicated spare parts sales department with direct phone line (+49 9392 801 803) and email ([email protected]). Spare parts dispatched during regular business hours (07:00-16:30).
4. Service and Maintenance: Service hotline offering telephone fault diagnosis, troubleshooting, coordination of service technicians on site, machine maintenance/servicing, and assistance in spare parts determination. Staffed Monday-Thursday 07:00-20:00, Friday 07:00-17:00, Saturday 08:00-13:00.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FMB Maschinenbaugesellschaft mbH & Co. KG designs, manufactures, and sells bar feeders (Lademagazine) and automation handling systems used as peripheral equipment for CNC turning machines and machining centers. The products automate raw material loading and finished/unfinished workpiece handling in metalworking production environments. Customers are industrial manufacturers and CNC machine shops.

Product overview

FMB Maschinenbau is a German manufacturer of automation solutions for machine tools, specializing in bar feeders (Lademagazine) and handling systems. The product portfolio consists of two core product lines: (1) Bar Feeders/Lademagazine including the turbo series (turbo 2-20 to turbo 20-100), turbo RS series with RS technology (RS 2-20 to RS 4-45 V), micromag, minimag, and SL short loaders (SL 80 V, SL 110 V), covering bar diameters from 2mm to 110mm; and (2) Handling Systems including unirobot (customized automation with modular components), easyload (standardized solution for simple tasks), and base (plug-and-play modular automation). FMB also offers proprietary technologies including RS technology (telescopic guide channel connected to spindle), V-technology (automatic diameter adjustment), and LSK technology. The company serves industrial automation needs across various sectors with products integrating FANUC and YASKAWA industrial robots.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• unirobot: Modular handling system for automated loading and unloading with industrial robots from FANUC and YASKAWA
• easyload
• base
• RS-Technologie
• V-Technologie
• turbo
• micromag
• minimag
• uniprotect
• uniprove

Products and services

• Bar feeders (Lademagazine) Automated loading magazines that feed bar stock into CNC turning machines and machining centers, enabling continuous unattended turning operations for industrial manufacturers.
• Automation handling systems Automation handling systems that move workpieces into and out of CNC turning/machining cells, providing integrated part-handling for production environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Automatic diameter adjustment eliminates mechanical retooling and feed rod changeover for different bar diameters
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• SF Systeme BücheleminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 April 2025SF Systeme Büchele co-exhibited with FMB at DST 2025 in Villingen-Schwenningen. The company presented highlights from the high-pressure systems product range at FMB's stand.
• EDGE TechnologiescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2006Sales partnership established in 2006. EDGE Technologies serves as FMB's sales partner in the USA, based in St. Louis, Missouri (11600 Adie Road, St. Louis, MO 63043).
• YASKAWAcoreTechnology or IntegrationFMB has been a system integrator for YASKAWA industrial robots for 25 years. YASKAWA robots are integrated into FMB's handling systems including unirobot and BASE. The partnership covers loading/unloading automation, joining, assembly, packaging, measuring, labeling, and removal/sorting of injection-molded parts. In the Chroff case study, the YASKAWA GP12 (12 kg payload, 1440 mm reach, 6-axis) is used with FMB BASE for automated component sorting.
• FANUCcoreTechnology or IntegrationFANUC is a key technology partner providing industrial robots used in FMB's unirobot and BASE handling systems. FMB also developed FMB Robodrill, an automation solution specifically configured for FANUC Robodrill machine tools. FMB exhibited on FANUC's stand at Automatica trade show.
• KeyencecoreTechnology or IntegrationKeyence provides AI-powered all-in-one vision cameras used in FMB's bin picking and component recognition systems. The camera integrates AI for recognizing workpieces on conveyor belts, sorting left/right components, detecting production errors, and reading texts, codes, or colors. Used in the Chroff Kunststofftechnik automation project.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• LNS Group: LNS Group is the most direct global competitor to FMB, manufacturing bar feeders, chip conveyors, and coolant management systems for CNC turning and milling machines. Both companies compete head-to-head in the same product category (bar feeders), serve overlapping customers (CNC turning machine users), and rely on global distribution networks.
• IEMCA: IEMCA (part of the Bucci Industries group) is one of the world's largest manufacturers of automatic bar loaders and bar feeders for CNC lathes. As an Italian-headquartered direct competitor with a similar product portfolio, IEMCA competes with FMB across European and global turning-machine customers.
• Bucci Industries (Baruffaldi): Bucci Industries owns Baruffaldi, a producer of bar feeders and automatic loading systems for CNC turning machines. The product overlap with FMB is direct, and the companies compete for similar European OEM and job shop customers.

Emerging players

• Schunk: Schunk is a German market leader in gripping systems and automation components used widely in robotic machine tending. Schunk's modular automation components (grippers, tool changers, rotary units) are complementary to FMB's BASE system but increasingly competitive as Schunk expands into complete automation cells.

Broad incumbents

• KUKA: KUKA is a German-headquartered global robotics and automation company with a strong presence in machine-tool loading, assembly, and material handling. KUKA competes with FMB for industrial automation projects at German Mittelstand customers and represents a comparable German automation brand profile.
• ABB Robotics: ABB Robotics is one of the four largest global industrial robot suppliers and offers machine-tending cells, robot-based automation, and increasingly integrated vision systems that overlap with FMB's BASE/unirobot value proposition. ABB competes for the same machine-tool automation RFPs at large European manufacturers.
• INDEX-Werke: INDEX-Werke is a leading German manufacturer of CNC lathes and turning machines and a likely FMB customer/adjacent player. While INDEX makes the machine tools themselves and FMB makes the feeding automation, both operate in the same German Mittelstand industrial ecosystem serving turning applications.
• FANUC: FANUC is both a deep technology partner (robot platforms integrated into unirobot and BASE) and a broader incumbent offering its own automation cells and Robodrill machines. FANUC's vertical integration push represents both FMB's biggest partnership opportunity and its most significant competitive threat.
• EMAG Group: EMAG is a major German machine tool manufacturer offering turning, grinding, and gear-cutting machines, often sold with integrated automation. As a broader incumbent in metal cutting with its own automation capabilities, EMAG is comparable to FMB's served market, even if FMB supplies third-party automation to EMAG-adjacent customers.
• YASKAWA: YASKAWA has been FMB's robot platform partner for 25 years and is itself a global leader in industrial robotics and motion control. As a broad incumbent, YASKAWA both enables FMB's handling systems and represents a potential competitive threat if it expands its own machine-tool automation portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Subsidiaries7 records

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