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Coffee delight thanks to Piab’s vacuum conveyor at Minges Coffee Roasters
Coffee is the most popular breakfast drink and must be prepared quickly and easily, especially in the morning, so that many can start the day well. That’s why coffee pod and capsule machines have conquered households in a very short time. To ensure that filling the capsules is just as uncomplicated as inserting the capsules and coffee pods into the respective machine, Minges Kaffeerösterei now also relies on the piFLOW®f vacuum conveyor from Piab for filling the capsules. Minges has already had good experience with this type of conveyor when filling coffee powder for coffee pods. When the coffee powder is filled into the capsules, it falls from a big…
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Flimsy bags can now be picked and handled more easily with a safe grip
As the bags become more thinner and flimsier, the more carefully they need to be treated. With the new BGX suction cup developed for handling flimsy bags this challenge is outdated. The BGX suction cup is suitable for applications in E-commerce, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Secondary food picking, Fashion and other industries where bags are handled. Bags made of thin plastic film such as those used for salad leaves and fresh herbs, or the aluminium foil bags used for crisps and other snacks are flimsy and often just as fragile as their contents. New biodegradable and recyclable materials are becoming increasingly popular, and with it the challenges of bag…
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The dream team: The Wyzo sidebot combined with Piab’s extremely lightweight Mini Cobot gripper (MCG)
Handling food or other small, lightweight products quickly and easily with human-machine interaction – that’s exactly what the Wyzo sidebot is designed to do. With a maximum payload of one kilogram, the weight of the gripper is critical. So, what could be a better fit than Piab’s featherweight, the MCG, at just 270 grams, which also impressed with its versatility and outstanding energy efficiency. Process automation continues to advance in the food, packaging, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and electronics industries. People in these sectors often work side by side with machines. This usually precludes the use of industrial robots, while the power spectrum of cobots is not always sufficient for such high-speed,…
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Facing growing e-commerce shipments – TAWI’s Mobile Order Pickers are your answer
Picking things faster, safer and mobile is the challenge in logistic centres with the dramatically increasing number of online ordered products due to the Corona pandemic. TAWI’s Mobile Order Picker allows one person to do the job of two while relieving their backs from injuries caused by lifting heavy objects – at the location they need it. TAWI’s Mobile Order Picker (MOP) is indeed mobile and can be picked up with any kind of forklift or pallet jack, allowing operators to use it wherever they need to lift something. With its adjustable tower height operators can reach into pack racks or other low headroom areas giving them the greatest possible…
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Switch faster from painkillers to antibiotics with piFLOW®p SMART
Pharmaceutical companies and their contract fillers benefit from quick product changes. Because with Piab’s Industry 4.0-capable vacuum conveyor piFLOW®p SMART, the active ingredients and fillers to produce painkillers to antibiotics can be switched faster. With piFLOW®p SMART the changeover of tablets can be done up to six times faster than with conventional conveyors. Everyone is currently talking about the bottleneck in medication. More pharmaceutical companies are required to deliver quickly. It is important to provide both large quantities of active ingredients and fillers for a medication, e.g. headache tablets, in order to be able to produce large quantities quickly. On the one hand, substances must be filled into the mixer…
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Der Greifer für das automatisierte Handling von Sixpacks ist da
Nach verschiedenen Gesprächen mit Kunden aus dem Anlagenbau und der Getränkeindustrie war für Piab’s Experten klar, ein Greifer für das einfache automatische Handling von Sixpacks mit Kartonummantelung muss her. Denn so werden gerade Bier und bierhaltige Mixgetränke angeboten und müssen entsprechend von der Getränkeindustrie verpackt und palettiert werden. Die Schwierigkeit bei der Automatisierung dieses Prozessschritts bestand bisher darin, dass mechanische Greifer die Flaschen nicht von oben an den Kronkorken aufnehmen können, da diese in der Regel mit einer Banderole aus Aluminium oder Papier versiegelt sind, die dabei beschädigt würde. Gleichzeitig ist der Karton sehr dünn und labil und muss entsprechend schonend gehandelt werden. Auch soll der Greifer keine Abdrücke auf…
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Now available – the gripper for automated handling of six packs
After various discussions with customers from plant engineering and the beverage industry, it was clear to Piab’s experts that a gripper for the simple automatic handling of six-packs with cardboard packaging was needed. Because this is how beer and beer-based mixed drinks are offered and must be packaged and palletized accordingly by the beverage industry. The difficulty with the automation of this process step has been that mechanical grippers cannot pick up the bottles from the top of the bottle caps, as these are usually sealed with a banderole made of aluminum or paper, which would be damaged. At the same time, the cardboard is very thin and unstable and…
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Three new bag gripping products ready for robots
Piab offers a wide range of End Of Arm Tooling (EOAT) for industrial robotic palletizing and de-palletizing operations, which are now on our website. Created for both standard and custom configurations, all tools are designed to ensure safety of goods and more importantly, of humans. Due to the robust and smart design of the bag gripping tools, your operational efficiency will be streamlined and maintenance minimal. The EOAT tools are available with variety of options such as pallet handling, slip sheet systems, sensors, etc. The bag grippers come in three versions: fixed bag width (FBG), adjustable bag width (ABG), and servo adjustable bag width (SBG). The FBG model is ideal…
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Piab adds three new sizes to Rectangular Bellows family
Piab extends its program of Rectangular Bellows cups with two new cups featuring an extra bellow: the RBL20x45, RBL30x55, and a complete new “square” cup the RBL60x60. The three new cups as well as the rest of the Rectangular Bellow family are also included within a virtual configurator to help support and simplify the ordering process. Rectangular suction cups are recommended for the handling of long, narrow objects and surfaces when maximum lifting force and grip are desired. The Rectangular Bellows are especially suitable for products in plastic flow packs, such as candy bars, and when level compensation is desired. The new long version (RBL) with an extra bellow is…
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Piab erweitert die Produktreihe von rechteckigen Bälgen um drei neue Größen
Piab erweitert das Sortiment an rechteckigen Balgsaugnäpfen um zwei neue Saugnäpfe sowie einen zusätzlichen Balg: den RBL20x45, den RBL30x55 und einen komplett neuen "quadratischen" Saugnapf, den RBL60x60. Die drei neuen Saugnäpfe sowie der Rest der Produktreihe von rechteckigen Bälgen sind in einem virtuellen Konfigurator enthalten, um den Bestellvorgang zu beschleunigen und zu vereinfachen. Die rechteckigen Balgsaugnäpfe werden für die Handhabung langer, schmaler Gegenstände und Oberflächen empfohlen, wenn eine maximale Haltekraft gewünscht wird. Die rechteckigen Bälge eignen sich besonders für Produkte in Kunststoffverpackungen wie zum Beispiel Schokoriegel und wenn ein Niveauausgleich gewünscht wird. Die neue lange Version (RBL) mit einem zusätzlichen Balg eignet sich besonders für Objekte/Picks mit großen Höhenunterschieden. Der…
