Success stories
Piab and Kenos tools enable safe street lighting manufacture
Italian system integrator MVQuadro used Kenos® FlexiGrip KFG grippers and an array of suction cups from Piab to successfully assist a manufacturer of street lights.
European multinational doubles tomato sauce production with Piab-Kenos setup
Successful partnering between Piab and CFT Group, Italy, produced a vacuum-driven, tailormade solution that doubled the productivity in a tomato sauce line.
Kenos KVG grippers to improve productivity in metal sheet handling
By using Piab's Kenos® KVG grippers, Automation Technology designed and built a folding, joining, assembly, and riveting line for galvanized sheets, optimizing not only cycle times but also operator safety.
Safe palletizing of wet vehicle batteries with Piab DURAFLEX® Friction Cups
Piab's DURAFLEX® Friction Cups, plays a major part in Gruppo Esea's pick-and-place system for a leading automotive battery manufacturer.
Kenos® foam grippers to support high-speed handling of paint drums
Using Kenos® KVG120 foam grippers by Piab, Dromont Group designed a successful pick-and-place system for a paint production line at a major UK chemical company.
From Ground to 65 feet up: Piab’s Automated System Conveys Corn Seed Coating Powder up to Fourth Floor
Bayer Hungaria Kft. enjoys the benefits of Piab’s automated solution for their corn seed coating powder transportation. The implementation of Piab's piFLOW®f conveyors completely reduced the need for manual handling.
Piab carton palletizing solution improved Steelgran’s productivity by 35%
Piab vacuum foam gripper Kenos® KVGL has improved the operating cycle of end-of-line robots by 35% for Spanish company Steelgran Componentes S.A.
Four decades and still running – a story of conveyors that last
To celebrate the 70-year anniversary of Piab, the Vacuum Conveying Division launched a competition to find the oldest, still running Piab vacuum conveyor out there. And it was found...
Increasing palletizing cycles in a food application.
MAXPRO achieved great advantages in bag handling with Piab's Kenos® KVGL gripper...
Increased productivity in the packaging and palletizing of boxes.
Using Piab's KVG and KVGL series of Kenos® grippers, Eklego designed and manufactured a state-of-the-art end-of-line system...
Automatic box palletizing in the food industry
BX suction cups made of double-strength Duraflex® in combination with Piab's COAX® vacuum generation technology have enabled Tradicional Panadera to palletize different carton formats with a single gripper.
Flexible and efficient handling of raw wood runners in a strapping system
Using Piab's Kenos® KVG grippers, Officina Meccanica Sestese SpA designed and manufactured an end-of-line packaging machine installed at a leading company in Southeast Europe, a manufacturer of components for the furniture industry.
Coffee delight thanks to Piab's vacuum conveyor at Minges Coffee Roasters
The coffee capsules and pods from Minges Coffee Roasters have been filled easily thanks to Piab's piFLOW®f...
Increased productivity in forming boxes in a veterinary application
Using Piab's B52XP suction cups and piCOMPACT23 SMART pump, Cob-Solution designed and built a system to handle the picking and opening of cardboard boxes at Rao Farmaceutici, Sicilian veterinary pharmacy that is investing in e-commerce and selling throughout all Europe.
The dream team: The Wyzo sidebot combined with Piab's extremely lightweight Mini Cobot gripper (MCG)
With a maximum payload of 2.2 pounds for the Wyzo sidebot, the weight of the gripper is critical. Therefore Piab's featherweight Mini Cobot gripper (MCG) at 9.5 oz, fits perfectly.
Reinventing intralogistics
A unique, intelligent, solution that automates the intralogistics and material handling from inbound to the finished, delivered kitted items at the individual production lines has been created...
Automatic handling of packaged biscuits with Piab’s vacuum technology
Using Piab's suction cups and vacuum pumps, Tecno Pack SpA has designed and built grippers...
The dm distribution center relies on Piab suction cups
dm is currently the largest drugstore in Europe. At their distribution center a large part of the pallets is depalletized with...
Safe automatic handling of glass sheets with Piab’s vacuum technology
Forvet SpA has created end-of-arm tools that allow handling glass sheets of different sizes...
With Piab’s area gripper, the handling of furniture parts is child's play
The machine builder GO GmbH were looking for an “all-in-one” gripper solution that can be used to stack both loose and packaged furniture parts on and off pallets, as well as the pallets themselves. The solution was...
Delivering clean sugar with Piab’s piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor
To improve product quality and prevent losses India’s leading manufacturer M. B. Sugar trusts...
At Nipro the piCOMPACT® provides the vacuum performance needed in production of pharma packaging made of glass
With 32,500 cycles per day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, this application is one of the those with the highest number of...
JAM Automation moves 550lb heavy profiles with Piab’s Kenos® grippers
To automaticaly remove extruded aluminium profiles from cassettes in high-bay warehouses, JAM Automation created...
Automatic handling of porcelain stoneware slabs and related sub-formats
Thanks to Piab's Kenos® KVG area vacuum gripper, an extreme variability of sizes and surfaces can be managed, using just a single gripper. This allowed...
High flexibility and safe gripping in a cosmetic application with Piab's cobot gripper
Effedi Automation chose the piCOBOT® gripper, COAX® vacuum technology and BX suction cups by Piab to handle the palletizing operations of a...
Industrial Bakery Austerschmidt in Germany automates handling of seeds with Piab’s vacuum conveyors
Employee relief and careful use of resources prompted the industrial bakery Austerschmidt in Germany to switch the handling of seeds from a manual to an automated process. In piFLOW®f vacuum conveyors, they found the critical tools.
With Piab's gripper, Best Handling Technology improves the ergonomics of its customer at 32 workstations
Healthy, satisfied employees, increased efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability - regardless of the industry, the reasons are always the same that give cause to a higher degree of automation in handling tasks. German Best Handling Technology was able to achieve all of this for its customer, a leading logistics service provider, with a suction cup equipped Kenos® area gripper.
DCL realizes flexible automation solution with Piab’s piCOBOT® gripper on an UR 10e robot
Looking for a flexible, easy to integrate, plug-and-play solution to handle picking and packing of items into boxes in their fulfilment center DCL Logistics based in Fremont, CA, resorted to an UR 10e robot combined with Piab’s piCOBOT® vacuum gripper.
Automatic handling of boxes and interlayers for the production of security cards
With a single gripper consisting of four B75 silicone suction cups by Piab, Robotecnik designed and manufactured a palletizing robot to handle efficiently the end-of-line operations of Banca d'Italia.
Absolute precision in the handling of thermoforms, with sealing rings, and their transport supports
System integrator Umbra Control chose Piab's Kenos® KCS gripper, in a special version with four suction cups, to accurately and efficiently handle Meccanotecnica Umbra's end-of-line pick and place operations for the production of seals for the automotive industry.
Safe conveying of instant milk granules with Piab’s piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor
Polmlek Raciaz, a Polish producer of various milk-based products faced a problem of breaking granules during the transfer of instant milk within its process. In Piab’s piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor they found the solution they were searching for. Equipped with an ejector with a high vacuum flow, they were able to adjust the speed to maintain the granules as planned.
Automated palletizing of sweet tea and juice from a cold room
While palletizing cartons is a regular automation application, doing so from a cold room that is regularly hosed with water to stay clean is a specific challenge. Motion Controls Robotics overcame these by using vacuum technology from Piab supplied by Neff Group Distributors.
Handling cheese blocks right with Piab’s vacuum technology
Packaging cheese blocks vacuum-wrapped in film represents a major challenge for process automation. With the help of Piab’s piGRIP® configurable suction cups and high-performance vacuum ejectors, the machine and plant manufacturer TGW Robotics GmbH has developed a gripper that ensures a stable process.
Tradichem uses Piab’s vacuum conveyor to miniaturize active pharma ingredients
Size matters – particularly in competitive markets such as pharma and nutraceuticals due to its direct result on costs. Tradichems patented Hipering® process begins right at the start of the process chain by miniaturizing the ingredients. Thanks to Piab’s piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor their patented process is continuously fed thus maintaining the required pressure level.
Kora uses Piabs piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor for the efficient filling of superfoods
Fast and easy product changes, compliance with food and pharmaceutical standards, and high energy efficiency for sustainable resource conservation. For Kora the Piab vacuum conveyors are the perfect link between the process steps. Because they meet just these criteria.
Piab conveys micro-additives for pet and farm animal food in Conberg solution
While micro-additives are an important part in today’s pet and farm animal food, their strongly varying amount per recipe poses a challenge in automating the transfer from dosage stations to the mixer. System integrator Conberg in Poland developed a suitable solution based on Piab’s piFLOW®f vacuum conveyor.
robominds calls Piab's new MX suction cup the "Super Cup"
According to robominds, the latest vacuum technology product from Piab has earned this nickname because it simply lifts anything - regardless of the material, geometry, or surface structure. And so, the all-rounder is exactly the suction cup that robominds has been missing for its picking solutions for eCommerce customers and manufacturers of complex products.
Automatic handling of cheese slice pouches of different formats at high process speeds
With the use of piGRIP® suction cups, certified for food contact, and COAX® vacuum generators, both Piab's products, CAMA Group has created a cutting-edge packaging system that allows to handle 280 pouches of cheese slices per minute.
Automatic handling of pasta packs
With the use of a single Kenos® KVGL vacuum gripper by Piab, Selematic has created a state-of-the-art automatic packaging system, achieving a significant cost reduction and an important productivity increase when handling different formats and various layers of pasta.
Reduced assembly costs thanks to a piCOMPACT® all-in-one ejector
By changing over to our piCOMPACT® vacuum ejector, the customer reduced the installation effort thus saving time.
Automated veneer handling - sheet by sheet
With the help of Piab’s Kenos KVG area gripper, Heinrich Kuper GmbH carries out veneer sorting systems. The biggest challenge was to pick up split and perforated sheets one by one with a vacuum gripping system. Piab’s innovative and fine tuneable vacuum technology makes such sensitive handling possible.