Cobot spray-painting cell for wood furniture

A pragmatic cobot spray-painting cell for a real furniture shop
Brazilian automation specialist Andre Dagostin shared this real-world install of a collaborative-robot painting cell integrated into a production wood-finishing line. The message: automating your paint booth doesn't have to be complex — pair a cobot with the spray equipment you already own, put an automatic gun on the wrist, and you get a simple, efficient process with professional results.

The setup
The cell combines three off-the-shelf ingredients: a collaborative robot arm carrying an automatic HVLP spray gun, a rotary positioner that turns the workpiece for even coverage, and a downdraft Cabine de Pintura booth from Comac. The workpiece in this video is a curved solid-wood furniture component, hand-fixtured onto the turntable and coated with clear lacquer/stain in a single robot pass. Numbered parts move through the booth in batches — the same program runs on every unit for repeatable film thickness.

Programmed with ENCY Robot
The trajectory that keeps the gun at a constant standoff and angle to the curved surface is programmed offline in ENCY Robot, then coordinated with the turntable's rotation. André's point to Brazilian industry: with the right training and implementation, this kind of cell is well within reach of small and mid-size manufacturers — no fear of automation required.