Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
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I need to attempt to design a vacuum pick and place tool.
I will need to pick and place an aluminium ring inner diameter about 160mm, outer diamerer about 190mm and height 15mm.
It would be possible to build in slots on the ring if this was to assist the tool in attaching to the ring when a vacuum is applied.
There seeems to be plenty of vacuum technology used for transporting everything from pallets to car batteries in a production environment, but I cant seem to find any info on where they are used in a laboratory/ cleaner environment and on smaller components.
I havent had much luck finding documentation ; The basics of designing such vacuum pick and place tool or even examples used in industry already, custom companies that make this technology.
Any advice or info on where to look would be much appreciated,
I will need to pick and place an aluminium ring inner diameter about 160mm, outer diamerer about 190mm and height 15mm.
It would be possible to build in slots on the ring if this was to assist the tool in attaching to the ring when a vacuum is applied.
There seeems to be plenty of vacuum technology used for transporting everything from pallets to car batteries in a production environment, but I cant seem to find any info on where they are used in a laboratory/ cleaner environment and on smaller components.
I havent had much luck finding documentation ; The basics of designing such vacuum pick and place tool or even examples used in industry already, custom companies that make this technology.
Any advice or info on where to look would be much appreciated,





RE: Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
Vacuum just always seems to be a pain.
RE: Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
Here is a vacuum system very similar to the one we used in our clean room,(metrology]to minimize the ingress of bad air or oil from a small leak..
i would contact Exair with your requirements.
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RE: Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
Any of the pneumatic companies like Festo, SMC, Bimba Should have a good range of suction cups and vacuum generators.
there are also specialists in the field like:
http://www.piab.com/
RE: Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
Google "End of Arm Tooling" - thousands of choices. Often you can buy a kit of parts to assemble yourself.
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www.tynevalleyplastics.co.uk
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RE: Designing a Vacuum Pick & Place tool
Because space is very limited for picking and placing this metal ring, I would like to use something alond the lines of the principle of a Vacuum plate that is sometimes used in cnc machining operations, I would really like to avoid suction cups, and moving rubber parts.
I have also found a very small amount of info on a Nitinol Clamp mentioned on page 59 (second last paragraph)
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Does anyone have any expereince with these memory alloy clamps? Im surprised there is very little information about them online.