Festo has launched the HPSX Common Adaptive Gripper, a pneumatic comfortable gripper engineered to enhance pace, hygiene and suppleness in demanding meals, pharmaceutical and cosmetics purposes.
Combining strong design, food-safe supplies and adaptive silicone fingers, the HPSX instantly addresses long-standing automation challenges the place speedy, exact and mild product dealing with is important.
Peter Potters, product supervisor at Festo, says: “In growing the HPSX, we refined the gripper’s form, dimensions and inside geometry to maximise gripping power whereas minimising air quantity.
“This permits sooner cycle occasions and a number of picks per second. On the identical time, we chosen a silicone materials that’s comfortable sufficient to forestall product harm however agency sufficient to securely grip objects and stand up to excessive acceleration.”
The brand new gripper’s design reduces air consumption whereas sustaining excessive gripping power, enabling faster actuation and sooner selecting cycles. The HPSX has been designed and examined to face up to acceleration forces of as much as 15G whereas dealing with a great deal of as much as 0.5 kg, guaranteeing dependable efficiency even in high-speed purposes.
This mix of low air quantity, robust grip and acceleration resistance delivers each pace and consistency on fast-moving manufacturing traces.
Gripper fingers are manufactured from a comfortable, silicone-based materials particularly chosen for its managed flexibility. This permits the HPSX to adapt to delicate, irregularly formed or hygienically delicate merchandise with out damaging them.
The adaptive design eliminates the necessity for inflexible, application-specific tooling, making the HPSX superb for dealing with fragile meals gadgets, pharmaceutical merchandise and cosmetics.
To satisfy stringent hygiene necessities, the HPSX incorporates a corrosion-resistant, sanitary design that’s simple to wash and preserve. The gripper has an IP69k high-pressure washdown score and is constructed to face up to aggressive cleansing processes widespread in meals and pharmaceutical environments.
It complies with EC 1935/2004 necessities and makes use of FDA-compliant, food-grade and metal-detectable supplies, guaranteeing secure operation in regulated manufacturing environments.
The HPSX can deal with a variety of product sizes and styles with out requiring a device change, considerably lowering mechanical changeover time. This flexibility is especially beneficial in purposes akin to cosmetics kitting, the place a single gripper might have to select and place a number of product sorts inside the identical manufacturing run.
By eliminating the necessity for frequent gripper swaps, producers profit from diminished downtime and elevated general tools effectiveness.
Accessible in three sizes (40 mm, 70 mm and 100 mm) and in two-, three- and four-finger configurations, the HPSX provides 9 variants to go well with numerous purposes. A common ISO50 becoming permits simple attachment to present robotic end-of-arm tooling.
As well as, the HPSX integrates seamlessly with Festo’s broader automation portfolio, together with controllers, valves and pneumatic techniques. Utilizing single supply reduces set up and programming complexity by eliminating interface and compatibility points between parts from completely different suppliers.
For OEMs and finish customers, this interprets into sooner commissioning, simplified troubleshooting and a single level of contact for service and help – additional growing uptime.
