Robohand, a DE-STA-CO brand, introduces the G100 Series blue line of pneumatic parallel grippers. The G100 Series is designed to provide machine builders and OEMs with higher-quality, low-maintenance grippers for cost-sensitive applications. The G100 Series is priced the same as comparable competing grippers, but is built to higher standards to deliver longer-lasting performance with reduced […]
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Gripper learns … through trial and error
You might say that the LearningGripper from Festo behaves just like a baby. But that’s a good thing. Newborn children gradually—and by trial and error—learn how to hold, move, and turn an object, such as a parent’s finger or a toy, with their hands. They want to look at it from all sides and form […]
Festo Has Developed a New Series of Bellows Grippers That Gently Expand to Engage Inner Surfaces
Festo now delivers the unique DHEB series of bellows grippers to customers in the electronics and light assembly industries. These bellows grippers expand in diameter when actuated by an integral pneumatically driven piston to securely grip the interior surface of a work piece. “There is a whole range of either extremely fragile work pieces or […]
Get a Hold on Pneumatic Grippers
by Paul J. Heney, Editorial Director Grippers grasp or enclose parts for transfer, insertion, or assembly in a variety of manufacturing situations. Pneumatic grippers provide their motion and actuation by introducing compressed air into a chamber of the device and powering a piston or a rolling diaphragm attached to a rod. The resultant motion of […]
PHD Releases New Parallel Pneumatic Gripper
PHD, Inc., a manufacturer of actuators for industrial automation, introduces a new series of parallel pneumatic grippers. Series GRH Parallel Pneumatic Grippers are available in four sizes that provide long jaw travel while accommodating long tooling lengths. Their design incorporates an extended support guide system with wide slot jaws to minimize tooling deflection, support large […]
Metal stamping solutions easy to find on Norgren Automation Solutions website
A new website from Norgren Automation Solutions (NAS) makes it easy for manufacturers using robotic automation to find tool and die and metal stamping solutions for front-of-line to end-of-line requirements. NAS has combined the technologies of ISI, Erie and Syron to form one of the world’s most robust catalogs of grippers, clamps, vacuum products and sensors used […]
Instant point of suction with COAX in piGRIP
Piab offers its patented COAX technology in a new decentralized vacuum unit called COAX in piGRIP. COAX is the most energy efficient ejector technology based on a multi-stage concept for creating vacuum with compressed air. The decentralized COAX in piGRIP is ideal for very demanding (leaking and/or high speed) vacuum applications where smaller parts/objects shall be moved. […]
PHD Releases Compact Precision Angular Pneumatic Gripper
PHD, Inc. introduces the new Series GRV Compact Precision Angular Pneumatic Gripper. Modeled after the highly successful Series GRA Parallel Gripper, the Series GRV is a compact, rugged precision gripper available in four sizes that can support large moment capacities and long tooling lengths. The combination of design and features makes the GRV a superior […]
Handle hot surfaces quickly saves energy in the plastics industry
Piab introduces a new material for its line of piGRIP® suction cups as well as its smaller Bellows and Universal models. The material – HNBR is known for superior mechanical properties that equates to excellent durability, tear and abrasion resistance. This material provides an extended lifetime compared to conventional suction cup materials. A key application […]
Fabco-Air’s Wide Opening Grippers
FKHL Series has hard-coated aluminum body and dual piston mechanism with rack & pinion synchronized fingers that deliver high forces. Rod scrapers protect shafts that ride on oil impregnated, steel encased sleeve bearings. Magnetic piston is a standard feature enabling “open” and “close” position sensing with optional sensors. Fabco-Air, Inc. www.fabco-air.com