APPMA member Romheld Automation is exclusively offering the mGrip modular grippers from Soft Robotics, which are aimed at food manufacturers plus packaging and processing technology businesses, in Australia and New Zealand.
Peter Hope, general manager of Romheld, bills the mGrip as an on-demand modular gripping system with human hand-like dexterity, which offers grasping solutions without the need for sensors, complex vision, or computations.
“Production-ready systems can be built in minutes with custom configurations and spacing options. Using interchangeable components, this remarkable mGrip gripper can cycle three to four times per second to keep up with demanding applications,” he says.
Hope says end of arm tooling is shaking up global supply chains.
“We’ve seen dramatic changes in the last few years and are in a good place to offer revolutions to production and fulfilment needs for Australia and New Zealand. A lot of emerging businesses need efficiency solutions, and these robotic systems are the answer,” he says.
Hope also believes that bakeries, with their many product variations such as cookies and bread rolls, are a natural fit for automation systems like the mGrip.
“Ideal for high mix environments, this modular system can be modified and adapted quickly using mGrip spacers designed to keep up to speed with any industrial robot.
“It offers easy to handle product variations in size and weight; gentle product handling for any food composition; safe, clean operations for all food contact; higher speed production in rate and change-over; and workforce simplicity for production operators,” he says.
The mGrip is available in a circular or parallel kit, each containing all the necessary components for a gripper with variable fingers. They are available in both standard aluminium and food-safe stainless steel options.
