Project: Concentric precision gripper
Concentric precision gripper for thin-walled tubes.
High-end micrometre precision and stable product clamping, cleverly designed within an acceptable investment level.
From fine-mechanical challenge to turnkey solution
When machining high-quality industrial components, extreme accuracy is the standard. High Tech Alliance was asked to develop an innovative precision gripper as part of a larger automation project.
The goal: to realise a complex, fine-mechanical system that delivers maximum stability without exceeding the budget.
About this project
The challenge
The core of the challenge lay in the product itself: clamping thin-walled tubes with extreme accuracy and concentricity, so that subsequent operations could be carried out on them with high precision. This required in-depth expertise in mechanics, strength of materials and fine-mechanical design principles to prevent the tubes from deforming during gripping. In addition, the system had to remain cost-effective and affordable, which seemed to conflict with the extreme tolerance requirements.
The role of High Tech Alliance
We managed this mechatronic process from the initial concept through to realisation and commissioning. By investing extra development time in the mechanical complexity and communicating transparently about it, we delivered a reliable overall solution that fully meets all strict quality requirements.
Solution and result
High Tech Alliance's solution demonstrates the power of smart engineering. Instead of using extremely costly components, we applied easily manufacturable machine parts with average accuracy to keep production costs low. The required high-end precision was then fully achieved and secured through the development of a special, client-specific gripper alignment tool.
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