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To increase the productivity of injection machines, more and more companies are investing in downstream and upstream automation.
Downstream automation is for automatic product insertion. Upstream automation is by automatic component removal. Both are accomplished by pickandplace robots.
The trickiest part about the pickandplace solution is the EOAT (End of Arm Tooling). As this part of the solution is constantly varying it is extremely tricky to
standardize on the design.
Gimatic spa, Italy has recently launched worldwide a series of products to build these EOATs with the modular concept.
Advantages of these modular EOAT systems are:
- Easy to construct.
- Easy to adjust.
- Re-usable components.
- Light weight.
- Easy to maintain.
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