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SCHUNK is a global leader in toolholding and workholding, gripping technology, and automation technology. Their extensive product range includes gripping systems, automation components, toolholding systems, and workholding solutions, catering to industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, and life sciences. SCHUNK emphasizes innovation, precision, and reliability, offering advanced solutions like electric grippers, magnetic grippers, and adhesive grippers to enhance manufacturing efficiency. With approximately 3,700 employees across 8 plants and 34 subsidiaries in over 50 countries, SCHUNK provides comprehensive support and services to its global clientele.
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SCHUNK SHOWS THAT THERE IS A LOT GOING ON

Consulting visitors of our show booth online directly from the Robot Application Center of our Hausen location – everything is possible these days. SCHUNK will give a foretaste at this year's SPS from November 23 to 25, 2021 in Nuremberg. Customers will experience various solutions for smart and intelligent automation processes at the multimedia booth. Application experts will guide you through various fields of application in a personal technical exchange or a direct live connection to SCHUNK.

SMART TO THE POWER OF TWO: THE NEW ITENDO2

Milling, countersinking or micro-cutting ─ the intelligent iTENDO toolholder has already proven its merit in a number of applications. Now its successor is being launched on the market: the iTENDO2 is more compact, more powerful and offers significantly more possibilities for applications.

DIGITALIZATION AT 30,000 RPM

Walking from booth to booth, talking to experts, touching products and seeing them in action. All of this will be possible again at EMO in Milan. The leading trade show for metalworking is offering the opportunity of an international industry event from October 4 to 9, 2021. SCHUNK will be there presenting innovative solutions for automated, flexible, and sustainable manufacturing. The highlight of process digitalization: the even more powerful iTENDO² smart toolholder.

PLUG & WORK ─ NOW ALSO AVAILABLE FOR COBOTS FROM OMRON AND FANUC

Cobots have decisively shaped industrial robotics in recent years ─ and they have become increasingly popular. To enable users to work quickly and easily with the industrial lightweight robots, SCHUNK is expanding its Plug & Work portfolio to include perfectly matched standard components for lightweight robots from OMRON and FANUC. This is an expansion of the Plug & Work options already available for Universal Robots, Doosan Robotics and Techman Robot. These solutions can be used to implement diverse automation scenarios in a very short time.

Automating with enthusiasm: Jump right in!

With a versatile range of automation components for demanding applications, SCHUNK will be attending this year's Automatica, which will take place as a purely digital event, the "automatica sprint", from June 22 to 24, 2021.

Advanced gripper technology receives German Innovation Award 2021

With the bionic inspired ADHESO gripper from SCHUNK, users can safely handle delicate parts without the risk of any residual marking.The new SCHUNK ADHESO gripper offers sensitive gripping without mechanical force or the need for any external power supply. The German Design Council honored the new technology with the German Innovation Award 2021 in the competition class “Excellence in Business to Business.”

Finger change at the push of a button

SCHUNK has again increased its gripper fingers program, and they can be exchanged more rapidly now: whereas the proven SCHUNK BSWS jaw quick-change system required an Allen key for operation, however, the new manual BSWS-M system only requires the push of a button to mechanically unlock the top jaw and pull away from the gripper.

INTELLIGENT SCHUNK GRIPPER WINS RED DOT DESIGN AWARD 2021

Innovative, ergonomic, quickly put into operation: The intelligent design of the SCHUNK EGH makes automation with cobots especially easy, and this is the reason why the gripper was awarded with the prestigious Red Dot Design Award 2021 in the ”product design“ category.

Perfect finish due to automated surface machining

Surfaces are machined by grinding and polishing. With coarse material removal as a post-processing operation, for further machining, or fine machining, sensitivity and precise readjustment are required to achieve the perfect workpiece finish.

HIGHER EFFICIENCY DUE TO AUTOMATED DEBURRING

In order to achieve clean end products, sharp edges, unevenness or overhang must be reliably removed during deburring metal cutting and casting processes. Until now, this required sensitivity has been achieved only by manual machining. But now, users can take their deburring process to the next level by automating it. SCHUNK, the competence leader for gripping systems and clamping technology, has expanded its portfolio for robotic material removal. It achieves perfect machining results, increases efficiency, saves costs and relieves employees from hard, fatiguing work.

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