The gentle touch: delicate handling with pneumatics

摘要

For a vast range of products, from food items to electronic devices, gentlernhandling during manufacture and packing is essential if damage is to bernavoided. Stuart Cheyne looks at some of the innovative options now available forrnhandling delicate items.rnMany conventional product handling systems make use of mechanical grippers that are usually operated pneumatically, although solenoid driven versions are also available. It would be easy to assume that gripper-based systems would be unsuitable for handling delicate products, but this is not necessarily so.