Gripper for battery terminal smoothing machine
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Gripper unit for battery terminal smoothing machine. Four parallel grippers from the Zimmer Group automate a machine system for surface hardening of battery terminals.
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Gripper for battery terminal smoothing machine
Gripper unit for battery terminal smoothing machine. Four parallel grippers from the Zimmer Group automate a machine system for surface hardening of battery terminals.

Onrobot has launched a new system solution for its collaborative end-of-arm tooling (EoAT).
An interview with Marcel Pfeiffer. Product design has also become significantly more important in the German mechanical engineering industry in recent years. Many factors determine the design: safety, reliability and optimum function are set against the recognition value of the brand and corporate identity.

The use of lightweight robots and cobots is an economical way to achieve automation. They are quick to learn and flexible to use. Schmalz knows what this means for the development of grippers and the like: the robot hand must be light and stable at the same time and must not endanger humans
Simple gripping tasks can be mastered with standardized grippers. However, special grippers with special designs are often required for automated gripping of complex components and for automation tasks outside this standard.

Gimatic has further developed its simple SQ manual changing system and made it suitable for Industry 4.0 robotics. The robot-side base plate is now available in a version with a secure locking mechanism that is sensor-supported.

Getting started with automation
The flexible EGH co-act gripper from Schunk is designed to provide an easy introduction to the world of cobots.
The differences between cobot vacuum grippers also lie in the generation of negative pressure and the resulting vacuum flow. The vacuum flow determines the load capacity of the gripper and thus decides whether the capacity of the cobot can be fully utilized.

With the VGC10 Compact, OnRobot is launching a new electric vacuum gripper onto the market. It has flexibly adaptable suction cups and arms and two independent air channels for double gripping.

The company Sapho in Ostrach supplies the regions of southern Germany, Austria and parts of France with road salt from its warehouse of up to 50,000 tons, which is partly filled from mines in the region between May and October. The filling department needed a new gripper to stack the bags on pallets.