End of Arm Tooling (EOAT)

Ready for Industry 4.0, when you are! piCOMPACT®23 SMART is an IO-Link-ready vacuum generator platform available from Piab. Offering operation with either standard 24V IO or IO-Link, the new SMART compact all-in-one ejector is ready to meet the future. Previously offered as an optional added feature, IO-Link is now included as a standard option. A generic input/output (IO) communication technology, IO-Link provides point-to-point links between sensors and actuators. It can be used with any type of fieldbus,... read more

Piab is introducing a new line of robotic End-Of-Arm Tooling (EOAT) products, enabling customers to build automated systems that perfectly fit their specific applications. Piab’s complete set of off-the-shelf standard components can be used to solve the real automation challenges facing manufacturers. Made up of several different families of components, the new EOAT line offers standard products in a broad range of sizes and dimensions, resulting in a modular automation technology set comprising an impressi... read more

Piab’s Kenos® KVG series of vacuum grippers is extended to include the option of using suction cups instead of the technical foam pads offered as standard. The popular vacuum grippers can now be configured with suction cups from Piab’s flexible and durable suction cup series DURAFLEX® BX as well as the generic Value Line® series. “This new suction cup option for Kenos® KVG vacuum grippers will help our customers to better address certain materials or items that might be particularly difficult to grip. It... read more

Joining our sister companies within the Investor AB group, Piab will now start working towards achieving the sustainability goals set up by the UN. The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with +9,500 companies in over 160 countries participating. The programme is based on the commitments of CEOs to implement universal sustainability principles and to undertake partnerships in support of UN goals. Piab will do the first Communication of Progress (COP) in the end of... read more

The Oval Bellows Friction (OBF) design is suitable for oblong objects with domed and flat surfaces, such as those encountered with body parts in the automotive industry. OBF suction cups are specially designed for oily surfaces, such as sheets in metal forming processes. The suction cups can withstand high shear forces, typically 2–4 times more than corresponding conventional suction cups, and can handle objects with height differences. OBF suction cups are manufactured in DURAFLEX®, a specially devel... read more

Fitted with WIP spray nozzles, Piab's popular piFLOW®p vacuum conveyors will ensure a safer working environment in food and pharmaceutical processing plants. The Wet-In-Place (WIP) functionality is available for inclusion/retrofitting in new and existing piFLOW®p conveying systems. The water sprayed by the WIP nozzles will wet any dust from food or pharmaceutical materials left in conveyors, preventing it from escaping into the air where it can be inhaled by processing staff during maintenance or cleanin... read more

As it becomes ever important to ensure the ingredients are conveyed in a controlled manner to dosing and mixing equipment,the autotuning feature of the new piFLOW® SMART vacuum conveyor automizes the process of powder and bulk conveying. Based on its renowned COAX® ejector technology, the piFLOW® SMART is pre-programmed with advanced algrorithms to eliminate complex manual timer settings and allows continuous adaptive automatic fine tuning of the conveying process as well as recipe handling. Equipped with a... read more

Everyone is today talking about additive manufacturing or 3D printing as one of the future technologies to meet the increasing demand for personalized or customized products. Originally used as a simpler solution in prototyping, more and more unique pieces are being produced using this technology. But while it sets standards in the realization of products, many process steps are still manual. This includes, in particular, the loading of the production equipment with the corresponding plastic or metal powder... read more

Piab is extending its offering of piGRIP® suction cups, adding a new cup that enables maximum flexibility. The piGRIP®FXI is the latest member of the company's popular configurable piGRIP® suction cup range. With a longer, thinner and super soft lip, the new suction cup is designed to provide an excellent grip even on highly perforated or heavily patterned surfaces that might prove challenging for other cups. Its extra sealing capability makes the cup suitable for safe handling of surface leaking materia... read more

Piab's Kenos® KCS gripper enables a collaborative robot (cobot) that can handle just about anything, anywhere, at any time. This makes it the ideal ”co-working” tool, especially for small businesses, where flexibility is essential. Originally developed together with a leading cobot manufacturer as a tailor-made automation tool for one customer, the resulting vacuum gripper cobot proved so successful that Piab decided to offer it more widely. Combining Piab's proprietary air-driven COAX® technology for hi... read more

Heralding an era of genuine collaboration between humans and machines, cobots, or collaborative robots, are being welcomed into more and more workplaces. Invented in 1996 by two professors at Northwestern University in the US, cobots are the latest generation of robotic systems that can interact physically with humans in a shared workplace. Whereas conventional robots are designed to work independently, often behind safety bars or in cages so as not to accidently injure human workers, cobots are equipped wi... read more

Piab is proud to introduce piCOBOT®, a cleverly equipped end-of-arm (EOAT) vacuum tool designed specifically for the cobot market. Featuring the company's signature vacuum technology, enabling improved efficiency, productivity and working environments, piCOBOT® offers industry certified plug-and-play extensions to the latest collaborative robots, so called cobots. Offered as a development kit, piCOBOT® comprises a vacuum pump unit, a gripper unit and two suction cups. The standard kit includes four diffe... read more

Piab is proud to introduce piLIFT® SMART, offering a genuine breakthrough in vacuum lifting. Smarter, more energy-efficient, quieter, ergonomic by design, and utilising the same principles of physics as all vacuum lifters, Piab’s piLIFT® SMART represents a paradigm shift as the market’s first Industry 4.0 ready vacuum lifter. The piLIFT® SMART takes ergonomic vacuum lifting to a new and higher level, essential for meeting our customers’ needs and to ensure the continued development and success of their indu... read more