Focus on new machines and digitalization
The Index Group presented over 20 lathes and solutions for digitalization at its Open House. The Group is thus taking an important step towards the future.
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Gripping, lifting, positioning, setting down: The basic work process in pick-and-place applications is always the same. However, the requirements that plant manufacturers and their customers place on drives and grippers are different.
read more...Portals from the modular system
Gripping, lifting, positioning, setting down: The basic work process in pick-and-place applications is always the same. However, the requirements that system manufacturers and their customers place on drives and grippers differ. SMC offers various solutions for individual applications with freely configurable modules for handling portals.
read more...Configure cantilever axles
Item is launching a new generation of its digital solutions Motion Designer and Motion Soft, which can be used to select, design and commission cantilever axes.
read more...Clamping and braking elements get a new inner life
Zimmer is adding a new feature to its RBPS series with the RBPS-A series of clamping and braking elements. A sensor groove enables retrofitting with magnetic field sensors.
read more...Movi-C modular automation system
Automated throughout
Fibro Läpple Technology uses drives from SEW-Eurodrive in its gantry solutions. The company is now using drive and control technology from Bruchsal throughout its new modular gantry system for the first time.
read more...Added value through digitalization
Three questions for... Dr. Kurt Schmalz
Companies expect real increases in efficiency and shorter throughput times when they use digitalization solutions. Dr. Kurt Schmalz, Managing Partner of J. Schmalz, explains the challenges and benefits of networking and HRC.
read more...Components for cobots and co.
At Motek, Schmalz will be presenting gripper innovations and further developments for manual lifting tasks, and the vacuum expert will also be showcasing intelligent devices for networked production with its Smart Field Devices.
read more...Machine automation in packaging technology
The air has to come out!
Standardized cardboard boxes, which are often too large, also transport a lot of air. To reduce this air, Opitz developed the Vario 558 volume reducer, which includes the Movi-C modular automation system from SEW-Eurodrive.
read more...Safe handling of glued wooden panels
By using several eT-Gripper suction boxes, vacuum specialist Eurotech solved a handling problem at a Slovakian plant of Rettenmeier, a company in the wood processing industry.
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