Particularly in the door industry, the great pressure to reduce costs and rationalise operations is making the automation of production processes increasingly important.

The trends in the door industry:

• Major increase in automation 
• Individual design of the doors 
• One-off production jobs

Traditional solutions such as grippers with a large number of suction pads are not flexible enough and incur high costs.
 
In order to meet demands for a gripper with low investment costs and low operating costs, Schmalz has now developed an special large-area vacuum gripper.

The highlights – your benefits:

• New large-area vacuum gripper with extended functionality for the flexible handling of doors with frame thicknesses of only 80 mm
• Optimised valve technology ensures energy savings of up to 50%
• The flexibility of the large-area vacuum gripper permits immense reductions in the set-up times. On grippers with individual suction pads, the positions of the suction pads have to be adjusted manually each time to match the door to be handled. The use of a large-area vacuum gripper makes this absolutely unnecessary!
• Apertures, holes, narrow friezes, ornaments, design elements, etc. are no problem for the gripper
• High-performance foam seal with a long operating lifetime
• Integrated filter mat prevents blockage of the foam seal by dirt
  

Applications:

• Automated palletising/depalletising, commissioning and sorting of doors.
• Handling of workpieces with apertures
• Handling of workpieces with varying dimensions and/or undefined positions

System design:

• Various formats and principles of operation permit flexible adaptation to the task in hand.
• Large-area vacuum grippers with integrated vacuum generator > FXC
• Large-area vacuum grippers with external vacuum generator > FMC

Do you, for example, already have a vacuum generator which you would like to continue using? In this case, our gripper module FMC is the ideal alternative.

• Several gripper systems can be combined in a modular manner.

The large-area vacuum grippers are now available and can be delivered very quickly. Consult us – we will be happy to advise you!