Piab: automated handling and vacuum technology

Handling goods gently and physically relieving employees: Piab from Sweden offers solutions for many process steps that increase productivity, including ergonomic lifters and vacuum conveyors.
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The piSoftgrip gently picks up products one by one. (Image: Piab)

Handling goods gently and physically relieving employees: Piab from Sweden offers solutions for many process steps that increase productivity, including ergonomic lifters and vacuum conveyors.

If, for example, products are manufactured from powders, the for economical production The ingredients are quickly prepared in the right mix and quantity, the items are efficiently filled into the sales packaging and packed into outer cartons. Stacked on pallets, they are then sent to retailers.

With the ergonomic lifters from the sister company Tawi bags of ingredients are lifted into unloading stations. From there distribute piFlow-p-smart vacuum conveyors in compliance with food regulations the exact amount of ingredients and spices in dough mixers. The MX suction cup, which is considered an all-round talent, or the gentle piSoftgrip pick up vegetables individually and place them in the appropriate cutting devices. Cheese is picked up from a pallet using a surface gripper with piGrip suction cups and fed into the grating process.

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A gripper with piGrip suction cups picks a block of cheese from a pallet. (Image: Piab)

For ready-baked cakes that are sealed in film packaging, special suction cups with thin silicone lips hold the film bags in place for filling and the tried-and-tested Duraflex suction cups from Piab place the cartons into which the shrink-wrapped products are stacked. Several cartons can be stacked with the Kenos area grippers based on Piab's energy-efficient vacuum technology stacked on pallets.

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Piab controls vacuum processes with Smart Ejector

With the Use of the piCompact-23-smart ejector the vacuum processes can be optimally controlled using the integrated functions such as IO-Link, automatic status monitoring, preventive maintenance and real-time adjustment.

Other exhibits also keep the process chain moving: an MX suction cup can be easily installed on a cobot using the MCG or piCOBOT vacuum module. It picks up objects of almost any surface, shape and material. The suction cups can be tested live become.

Piab at Fachpack 2021: Hall 4, Stand 219

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