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Piab Robot Gripping Solutions
Piab specializes in automated vacuum process components and solutions that improve productivity, sustainability, and safety in industrial automation. Their modular component portfolio features an extensive offering of gripping solutions, suction cups, vacuum products, and robot end of arm tooling for a variety of industries including Packaging, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Logistics and Warehousing, Plastics and Automotive.
Product Information
Piab’s advanced gripping solutions will simplify and even eliminate engineering time for grippers, make installation easier, and ensure that state-of-the-art components are used to achieve maximum performance and productivity. The ready-to-use grippers are designed to be installed directly on the robot arm or tool changer. Several mounting interface options, in accordance with ISO-9409-1, are available making it easy to install on most robot brands.
Cobot and Robot Grippers
PiCOBOT® is a vacuum ejector unit with integrated controls, large visual status indicators, and a user-friendly display. Certified by Universal Robots, it mounts directly on the UR robot arm (ISO-9409-1-50-M60). As an option to mount a suction cup directly on the piCOBOT® thread interface, a high-end adjustable gripper with two suction cups can be seamlessly attached to the piCobot® unit. It is equipped with plug-in software (URCap) for the teach pendant which makes it easy to install, set up, and get started.
piCOBOT® Vacuum Gripper Unit
Optimized design for high reliability
Mechanical and electrical interfaces
Based on patented COAX® technology with integrated controls
piCOBOT® L Vacuum Gripper Unit
Lift up to 35 lbs
IP65 compliant
Robust pump body allows for use in harsh environments
piCOBOT® Electric
Fully electric, no compressed air required
High flow capacity
No external power supply needed
Low energy consumption
KCS Cobot Gripper
Integrated COAX® SX cartridges
Quick change system to move between applications
High performance even at low or fluctuating feed pressures
Kenos Vacuum Gripping Systems
Kenos® is a leading brand for large area vacuum grippers. Designed and optimized for use in a variety of applications, the product offering provides a flexible solution for the handling of several goods with different shapes, dimensions, and compactness. Most of the gripping systems can be equipped with an integrated vacuum generation, or a separated vacuum generation through pump or side channel blowers. The integrated vacuum generator is a modular multi-stage COAX® ejector of easy maintenance and the market’s most energy efficient ejector technology.
Kenos® FlexiGrip – KFG
Three configurations to fit your needs
Plug & Play solution for UR cobots
Can be used in both centralized and decentralized vacuum systems
Kenos® MiniGrip – KMG
Strong and rigid support under vacuum
Round version in 6 diameters
Rectangular version in 4 sizes
Kenos® Safe&Light – KSL
Low weight maximizes cobot payload
Robust design, materials and valve technology
Kenos® Vacuum Gripper KVG
Flexible solution for products with different shapes and dimensions
Ideal for pick, place, and packing
Four models available to fit needs
Kenos® Vacuum Gripper KHVG
Designed for heavy duty applications in the wood and stone industry
Low dust sensitivity
For pallet handling and positioning
Kenos® Vacuum Gripper KBC
Designed for the needs of the packaging industry
Internal or external vacuum
Efficient suction capability
piSOFTGRIP®
Lightweight vacuum-driven soft gripper sensitive and delicate objects. piSOFTGRIP® is a simple yet robust one-piece product consisting of gripping fingers and a vacuum cavity. Thanks to a vacuum driven design, the gripping force is easily controlled by simply adjusting the vacuum level.
piSOFTGRIP®
Cost effective, vacuum-driven soft gripping solution
Suitable for sensitive and lightweight products
Detectable silicone material and approved for direct food contact
Palletizing Solutions
Piab offers a wide range of custom and standard End of Arm Tools (EOAT) for typical industrial palletizing and de-palletizing operations. All tools are designed to ensure safe operation, no goods are damaged, run with the highest efficiency, and that maintenance is simple and kept to a minimum. Below are the first of Piab’s palletizing solutions to be standardized and made available. Watch for future releases as you may find one that fits your needs.
ABG
Heavy-duty rails and bearings with double seals and grease ports, less required maintenance
Fast adjustment of bag sizes via hand wheel, lead screw, bearing blocks and shaft locks
FBG
Simple bag width adjustment by loosening eight bolts
Heavy-duty rails and bearing with double seals
LBG-50
Lift bags and sacks of any standard material
Adjustable width and finger positions
Lightweight aluminum tool design maximizes the robot's payload
SBG
SHeavy-duty rails and bearings with double seals and grease ports, less maintenance required
Gearbox with pulley / belt drive system
Custom Line Solution
When you need a solution or product specifically designed for your requirements, Piab’s Custom-Line Solutions are the answer. The solutions presented here are developed for unique customer projects. Piab’s designs are usually modular and parametric based allowing for flexible adjustment. Therefore, a Custom-Line Solution optimized to meet your requirements is just a click away.
Cobot Palletizing Tool
Compact solution for palletizing boxed-in products
One EOAT instead of several
High energy efficiency
Mini Cobot Gripper
Only weighs 9 ounces but lifts 11 lbs
Integrated vacuum ejector
Can be equipped with various suction units
Additional Resources
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Applications
Gripping Fragile Objects with Soft Grippers
piCOBOT® - Small, Powerful and Ready to Collaborate with Human and Cobot Workers
Heavy-duty EOAT Bag Grippers for Palletizing
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