Customized robotic gripper: the step to 100% automation

What if standard robotic grippers can’t handle your product? Then we see in practice that many companies immediately abandon the arena of automation for that one step in the process. A missed opportunity. Because with a customized robotic gripper, you don’t have to fall back on plan B.

Gripping today is much more than a simple open-and-close movement of a hand. The complexity of many applications places specific demands on your robotic gripper.

The robot itself, however accurate and flexible it may be, is not all-important for the accuracy or flexibility of the gripping task. A simple robot can perform a complex task using an intelligent and cleverly chosen or designed gripper – combined with proper control. While the best robot combined with the wrong gripper can result in undesirable performance or even manipulation failure.

Custom built

So the application is all-important. It places specific demands on the gripper and robot.

As more and more companies assemble flexibly, the need for highly specific robotic grippers is rising. Indeed, only those specific grippers are capable of manipulating increasingly complex pieces. Standard designs often fall short in these cases.

In those cases, we can still offer a solution with a custom designed and made robotic gripper. A solution that makes the difference between a semi-automated and fully automated process. A process where manual actions are still required versus a process where everything runs automatically.

Custom programmed

In addition to custom mechanical design, we can also program these grippers.

So we can fully tune speed, position and force required for your parts to be assembled. And give feedback of all those parameters through data feedback. In addition, on some grippers we have the ability to control the fingers or claws independently according to your process.

That combination of custom development and construction with programmability, results in very high flexibility to:

• Dimensions and weight of object
• Gripping force
• Verification of correct placement
• Speed of closing the fingers

Robot gripper: 3 cases

How does that theory translate to practice? We present three of our custom realizations for clients.

• Left: robotic grippers equipped with controlled magnets. These grippers pick up and place metal parts.
• Center: gripper system on a linear carriage. This gripper manipulates metal parts.
• Right: multifunctional robotic gripper. Manipulates, among other things, pressure vessels weighing up to 250 kg.