Intelligent, Autonomous and Flexible Vacuum Generation

Schmalz presents the new CobotPump ECBPi – a new generation of intelligent vacuum generators that do not need compressed air. Their areas of application include mobile robotics, for example in autonomous warehouses or stationary handling tasks with collaborative robots (cobots).
Automation Equipment already offers a large range of Schmalz solutions that can optimise such handling processes – from single components such as vacuum generators to complete gripping systems. Particularly when used in an autonomous warehouse, conventional vacuum generation with compressed air reaches its limits. Compressed air often is unavailable in warehouses.
Schmalz therefore is introducing a new technology development: a gripper with vacuum generation that does not use compressed air. The vacuum is generated fully electrically. This makes the gripper both energy efficient and mobile. At the same time, warehouses need systems with integrated intelligence, that deliver information and learn.
This enables the use of mobile and self-sufficient robots, which pick production orders at various locations in the warehouse. Furthermore, Schmalz provides various modular connection options from its wide range of vacuum end effectors in order to handle different products reliably and safely.
Highlights of the Schmalz CobotPump include connection via IO-Link, allowing process monitoring and predictive maintenance from the machine to the cloud. NFC interface features direct access to processes and the device via smartphone, energy efficiency thanks to integrated automatic adaptation of the performance to the handling process.
The Schmalz CobotPump is ideal for use in mobile robotics, fully automated small parts handling and stationary handling tasks.   
For more information contact the team at Automation Equipment on 0800 847 200 or e-mail them at
sales@autoequip.co.nz