
Slim lightweight layer gripper for cobots
With the new weight-reduced layer gripper from Schmalz, cobots can also palletize lighter workpiece layers.

Piab introduces the lightweight LBG-50 bag gripper. The new gripper lifts sacks and bags weighing up to 50 kg. The prefabricated tool saves users valuable development and set-up time.
At the end of the production chain of a newly constructed production line for tit dumplings, the animal feed manufacturer Eggersmann lacked the personnel for palletizing. Robot-based automation quickly proved to be the best solution.
The use of cobots has many advantages over conventional robots - especially in terms of flexibility for changing applications.
When separating goods from the pallet into other containers or onto a conveyor system, every grip should be perfect. If depalletizing is carried out by a robot, it relies on the best possible vision to reliably grip individual containers in different directions of rotation and levels. The Visionary-T 3D snapshot sensor from Sick enables robots for goods separation to optically detect the parts.