Parts Handling Equipment

SICK Inc. announced the launch of its W9-3 photoelectric sensor, a high-performance sensor in an extremely tough plastic housing.

Dorner's 2200 Series conveyor with Precision Move technology now comes with a common drive option to power multiple conveyors in a fixed position from a single drive motor.

Dorner 2200 and 2300 Series low profile belt conveyors now come with a new modular plastic belt small-pitch option that provides nosebar transfers as tight as 0.31".

ABB Robotics has introduced the IRB 6700 robot family, its seventh generation of large industrial robots.

Handling expert Strothmann extends its range of feeders by the new FEEDERplus8, an eight axis linear robot system which can transport and orient parts in various directions. The additional degrees of freedom provide for maximum flexibility in the feeding of blanks to complex dies and in parts removal.

With the FEEDERplus6, STROTHMANN has proved that a transfer system which unloads, orients, and feeds parts into presses all by itself can work more efficiently than double feeders or articulated arm robots, especially in small press gaps.

For a leading manufacturer of wind turbines, STROTHMANN has developed a pneumatic drive solution for the quadro turnstile.

FAUN, a German manufacturer of waste collection vehicles, has reviewed the production processes at its main plant in Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Lower Saxony) and initiated large-scale optimization measures for true material flow through all body manufacturing stations. While the modernization followed the model of the automotive industry, the big steel constructions required a suitable transport solution, RoundTrack technology from STROTHMANN enabled just such a solution.

STROTHMANN Machines & Handling has received a record order for RoundTracks.

STROTHMANN now also offers quadro turnstiles for the RoundTrack 40 system.