The

Ultimate Pneumatic Arm

Purpose:

If you have a highly variable level of work from week to week, you may not be able to find workers who can manage that much flexibility in their hours. For this problem, the solution could be a staff of workers to cover the typical base level of consistent work, with robots to help handle high-volume busy times.

Jobs with complicated movements requiring a high level of accuracy need more expensive electromechanical pick-and-place systems. If the application has a fixed travel path and doesn’t need repositioning or multiple positioning, a pneumatic pick-and-place system is often the best choice.​

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• In trying to keep it simple, a pneumatic system is simpler than an electromechanical system in terms of design, programming, installation, and maintenance.

• Correct sizing of components will reduce air consumption. Using only the minimum amount of requires pressure can lower air consumption by up to 25%.

• While pneumatic cylinders are generally limited to about 2500 lbs of available thrust, engineering can combine multiple cylinders to build a more powerful system.