
Avoid production stops with vacuum solutions
An optimized vacuum system can lead to faster pick and place times and fewer production stops. Avac offers several vacuum components to achieve these properties.
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An optimized vacuum system can lead to faster pick and place times and fewer production stops. Avac offers several vacuum components to achieve these properties.
Eurotech has set up an automatically controlled saw feed at Alu-Point. The feeding system can control three positions of the sawing area from the output area. The portal handles different panel materials such as aluminum, non-ferrous metals or technical plastics.

Pfeiffer Vacuum, the company with a long tradition in vacuum technology, celebrates its 130th anniversary.

With a new bin-picking solution, the use of the digital twin and a software tool for centralized access to IO-Link components, Schmalz offers a number of innovations for the smart factory.
The Swiss company Riwag Türen has put a new spray painting system into operation. The FMP area gripping system from Schmalz ensures that the doors are handled reliably and reduces process costs.
Eurotech from Geislingen invests 3.65 million euros in a new building. The ground-breaking ceremony took place on May 4, 2020. The state is funding the project with over 400,000 euros.

Aero-Lift heavy-duty lifting devices
The Aero-Lift devices lift loads of up to 60,000 kilograms and more with ease and without damaging the material. Accuracy and precision are particularly important for turbines, pipes, aircraft or ship parts.

The Piab Pilift Smart is an Industry 4.0-capable vacuum lifter with integrated smart data functions. The vacuum lifter can simultaneously lift and weigh loads as well as collect and log data so that process statistics and analyses are immediately available to the user.
Energy-efficient vacuum handling. The Institute of Machine Tools and Production Engineering at TU Braunschweig is developing gripping technology and process strategies for increased energy efficiency in vacuum handling.

Schmalz founds another subsidiary in Austria. The branch is based in Linz.