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.

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.

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.”

nnovative, 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.

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.

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.

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.

With the competition "Industry 4.0 Talents", the Allianz Industrie 4.0 Baden-Württemberg" (Alliance Industry 4.0 of Baden-Wuerttemberg) honors innovative projects for the digitalization of training in industry. The network awarded SCHUNK for its project "Digital Twin in Training". For this purpose, trainees from different areas jointly developed four digital twins of computer-controlled production machines. They can now use these for programming in production.

The new CoLab application center at the Brackenheim-Hausen location provides enough space for customers to test their automation solutions in a realistic surrounding, and to get them validated by SCHUNK experts. The focus of the application center is particularly on new technologies and fields of application.

It takes a maximum of 60 seconds until a conventional 3-jaw chuck with SCHUNK RAPIDO clamping inserts is retooled. For granting such a speedy jaw change, the RAPIDO clamping inserts must be put onto the base or intermediate jaws and moved backwards until they snap in. The exchange can be done manually or in case of lathe chucks with integrated base jaws, it can be done fully automatic with a robot.