Engineering Process Simply Automated
80 % faster thanks to digital design of your gripping solution.
Digital Engineering Service
The selection, design and engineering of gripping solutions is often a lengthy and complex process that ties up valuable resources. Increase the efficiency of your engineering process by up to 80 % with the Digital Engineering Service from Schmalz.
Digital design of tailored gripping solutions
With our Digital Engineering Service, you can work faster and more reliably than with any manual analysis and remain cost-efficient, as the designed gripping solution focuses on your required core functionalities.
Design your tailored gripping solutions for sheet metal handling digitally and automatically – in a way that was simply not possible with conventional methods before due to the enormous volume of data and time required.
The result: You receive a digital design of your gripping solution that is optimally suited to automate your diverse handling processes.
Your benefits at a glance
Faster
1 day instead of 1 week engineering time
Reduce your design time with automated digital design instead of manual analysis. Engineer your gripping solutions in record time.
More reliable
Digital precision instead of manual estimates
Benefit from a design that takes geometries, thousands of gripping points, centers of gravity and holding forces into account.
More efficient
Tailored solutions without over-engineering
Have cost-efficient gripping solutions designed that are optimally adapted to your workpieces and requirements through ideal alignment and customization.
Your result
Automated design for automated handling
Without any gripper changes and with significantly reduced set-up costs, the result of the digital design provides you with an application-specific and scalable solution for handling a wide range of components.
Schmalz's Digital Engineering Service sets new standards for automated engineering processes – faster, more reliable, and more cost-efficient than ever before. This empowers companies to significantly speed up their processes and actively shape the future with efficient, sustainable and intelligent gripping solutions.∼ Dr. Johannes Schmalz
How the Digital Engineering Service works
Upload the CAD data (STEP, DXF and all common 3D formats) of any number of different parts or enter simple parameters such as maximum and minimum values for length, width, height and weight.
In an iterative process, a model is designed and analyzed. Thousands of gripping points per uploaded part and the holding forces are taken into account and evaluated based on the center of gravity.
With just a few clicks, you will receive a reliable design of a solution that is tailored to your workpieces. Conveniently download the result or request your designed gripping solution directly.
Exemplary customer analysis
Increased efficiency through digital design
Automated handling of 30 different workpieces in a 2D laser cutting application? That was the requirement of one of our customers.
We took on this challenge and enabled handling sheet metal with just one gripper in order to keep set-up times to a minimum. Our Digital Engineering Service carried out over 3 million gripping processes to develop an optimum gripping solution.
The benefits of the digital design at a glance:
- 4 days less engineering time
- 2560 € cost savings
These values are based on average values from previous customer analyses and show the potential of our digital solution for your processes.