{"id":2275,"date":"2024-09-04T11:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mag2go.de\/schunk-de\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:57:05","slug":"the-gripper-does-exactly-what-it-should-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/01-24\/the-gripper-does-exactly-what-it-should-do\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe gripper does exactly what it should do\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an increas\u00adingly elec\u00adtri\u00adfied world, power elec\u00adtronics play a major role. The aim is to make elec\u00adtric drive systems as effi\u00adcient as possible in order to use energy econom\u00adi\u00adcally and sustain\u00adably. State-of-the-art power elec\u00adtronics, such as those produced by Semi\u00adkron Danfoss, are of central impor\u00adtance here. The company\u2019s semi\u00adcon\u00adductor compo\u00adnents, power modules and stacks are used in sectors such as auto\u00admo\u00adtive engi\u00adneering, trans\u00adporta\u00adtion and indus\u00adtrial systems, and renew\u00adable ener\u00adgies. There, they ensure that energy is used effi\u00adciently and there\u00adfore econom\u00adi\u00adcally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe EGU offers us process reli\u00ada\u00adbility.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nHanno Bruss, Test Engi\u00adneer at Semi\u00adkron Danfoss Elek\u00adtronik<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Hanno Bruss is a Test Engi\u00adneer at Semi\u00adkron Danfoss in Nurem\u00adberg and sums up the situ\u00ada\u00adtion as follows: \u201cOur aim is to offer high-perfor\u00admance elec\u00adtronic modules so that users can reduce their CO2<\/sub> emis\u00adsions.\u201d Bruss sees \u201czero-defect produc\u00adtion\u201d as a basic prereq\u00adui\u00adsite for this. All elec\u00adtronic compo\u00adnents supplied by the company must func\u00adtion one hundred percent. \u201cEvery single module that is produced here under\u00adgoes compre\u00adhen\u00adsive func\u00adtional checks.\u201d To achieve this quality stan\u00addard, Semi\u00adkron Danfoss relies on measure\u00adment and testing tech\u00adnology with a high degree of automa\u00adtion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hanno Bruss, Test Engi\u00adneer at Semi\u00adkron Danfoss Elek\u00adtronik (left), and Andreas Fieder\u00adling, Tech\u00adnical Consul\u00adtant for Grip\u00adping and Automa\u00adtion Tech\u00adnology at SCHUNK, at the closed robot cell, which is part of a larger produc\u00adtion measure\u00adment line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Due to its large stroke and force range, the EGU is partic\u00adu\u00adlarly suit\u00adable for use in multi-variant manu\u00adfac\u00adturing processes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Part\u00adner\u00adship at eye level: Hanno Bruss, Test Engi\u00adneer at Semi\u00adkron Danfoss Elek\u00adtronik (left), and Andreas Fieder\u00adling, Tech\u00adnical Consul\u00adtant for Grip\u00adping and Automa\u00adtion Tech\u00adnology at SCHUNK, at the robot cell.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On the track for measure\u00adment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The elec\u00adtronic compo\u00adnents travel towards the indi\u00advidual measuring stations on a narrow conveyor belt. They are tested for various para\u00adme\u00adters on the six-meter-long track: static, optical, tactile, dynamic and elec\u00adtronic. If every\u00adthing is OK, a laser station labels the parts and they are ready for ship\u00adment. But how do the compo\u00adnents get onto the conveyor belt in the first place? Hanno Bruss explains: \u201cThe linchpin of this system is the contin\u00aduous and secure feeding of compo\u00adnents from a robot cell.\u201d He clar\u00adi\u00adfies: \u201cThe gripper is there\u00adfore of partic\u00adular impor\u00adtance.\u201d Semi\u00adkron Danfoss has opted for the mecha\u00adtronic parallel gripper EGU in size 50 from SCHUNK. A SCARA robot removes the compo\u00adnents indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adally from the blister tray with the gripper and places them on a narrow conveyor belt to feed them to the down\u00adstream measuring cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTogether with our customers, we want to make the most of every bit of poten\u00adtial in terms of flex\u00adi\u00adbility and sustain\u00adability.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nAndreas Fieder\u00adling, Tech\u00adnical Consul\u00adtant for Grip\u00adping and Automa\u00adtion Tech\u00adnology at SCHUNK<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Stroke, weight and short distances<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The measuring system is fitted with a highly diverse range of differ\u00adently sized elec\u00adtronic compo\u00adnents. \u201cThat\u2019s why we need a long gripper stroke from very short to long, from around 30 to 110 millime\u00adters,\u201d says test engi\u00adneer Bruss, \u201cI took a long hard look at the market, and tried out various prod\u00aducts myself. Thise flex\u00adi\u00adbility of the SCHUNK gripper was a deci\u00adsive factor in the selec\u00adtion.\u201d In addi\u00adtion, the parallel gripper is below the upper weight limit of the robot appli\u00adca\u00adtion. And some\u00adthing else was impor\u00adtant to Bruss: \u201cA short start-up distance. Because we have to drive into a pretty tight space here. Other grip\u00adpers on the market required at least three to four millime\u00adters of start-up distance, which was too much for us. The EGU doesn\u2019t need any start-up distance at all.\u201d Main\u00adtaining the grip\u00adping force in the event of a voltage drop and the ability to inte\u00adgrate and monitor the EGU easily were addi\u00adtional argu\u00adments that persuaded Semi\u00adkron Danfoss. \u201cThe gripper has met all our require\u00adments and offers us process reli\u00ada\u00adbility. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and it fully exploits the advan\u00adtages of servo-elec\u00adtric grip\u00adping tech\u00adnology in this appli\u00adca\u00adtion.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The family-owned company based in Nurem\u00adberg is a global tech\u00adnology leader in power elec\u00adtronics and manu\u00adfac\u00adtures semi\u00adcon\u00adductor compo\u00adnents, power modules and stacks, among other things. The target indus\u00adtries are renew\u00adable ener\u00adgies, trans\u00adporta\u00adtion and the produc\u00adtion industry. Following the merger of Semi\u00adkron and Danfoss Silicon Power in 2022, the company now employs around 4,000 people at 28 loca\u00adtions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Semi\u00adkron Danfoss puts every single one of its elec\u00adtronic modules through its paces. The mecha\u00adtronic parallel gripper EGU places the compo\u00adnents on the measuring line. The deci\u00adsive factors for the choice of gripper were high flex\u00adi\u00adbility and process reli\u00ada\u00adbility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-success-story","category-01-24"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}