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Air grippers
End effectors, primarily by way of grippers, enable handling and manipulating parts with a wide variety of shapes, sizes and materials.
To make sure that you find the perfect solution for your handling application, SMC offers a wide portfolio of products adapted to the needs of each operation. Whether picking up a conventional part, a round piece, a ferromagnetic sheet with an irregular shape, tiny components for an assembly or boxes full of products, there is always a pneumatic gripper to do the task.
To find the suitable product for your needs, you must consider some basic parameters such as the necessary holding force, the shape and size of the part, the working environment and the repeatability, and you’ll be ready to go
Explore our air grippers to choose your perfect solution and meet the demands of your industry.
By Marcus Mazetti, Global Account Manager, SMC Sweden
MARCH 2022 Once the preserve of high-volume operations at automotive plants, we’re today finding that robots are infiltrating all sectors of the commercial world. Even beyond traditional manufacturing, inspection and packaging operations, we see robots fulfilling tasks that extend from mining and space exploration, through to surgery and laboratory research, and even fruit picking. With such a vast repertoire of applications, the robots of today need one principal attribute: flexibility. Much of this flexibility comes courtesy of the end-of-arm tooling (gripper), which means there are many factors to bear in mind when selecting a gripper technology supplier, not least breadth of portfolio, proven customisation capabilities and high levels of customer support.
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By Andrea Trifone, Cobot project leader, SMC Italy
JANUARY 2021 While robotics led the way for the rapid growth of automation, we see cobots as the democratisation of robotics technology. They eliminate the cost and complex programming that robots usually require while providing much greater flexibility.
