How 3D printing supports robotic manufacturing processes
Grippers are increasingly common in manufacturing processes in the robotic industry as they are critical in helping automation systems support various manufacturing requirements. Depending on the latter, the grippers of robotic arms, useful for manipulating objects, can have different sizes and geometries.
Often, they are part of the small production batches of a company and require customization and technical characteristics based on the component which they interact with.
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With traditional methods, making the grippers of robotic arms requires extensive investment and time, as well as stockpiling more than the actual current need to ensure economies of scale at the expense of inventory costs, profit and waste.
By having an in-house 3D printing solution such as the Roboze Plus PRO combined with polymeric materials such as PEEK, our customer not only managed to limit operational costs and waste by producing only what was needed, but streamlined its whole process by developing different geometries of grippers stored digitally, completely lowering inventory costs.
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