Manufacturing
Marketing Partner
Piab Inc.
Piab provides smart solutions for the automated world, helping thousands of end users and machine producers in e-commerce logistics, food, pharma, automotive and other manufacturing industries to improve energy-efficiency, productivity and working environments. By leveraging the ongoing technological development in automation and robotics, and targeting high-growth segments and geographies, Piab's vision is to become the global leader in gripping and moving solutions.
Mailing Address:
100 Energy Drive
Canton, Massachusetts 02021
United States of America
Tel: 8003217422
Email: info-usa@piab.com
Website: http://www.piab.com
Company Category: Industrial Robotics
Company Sector: Manufacturing
Keywords: vacuum generator pump cobot gripper
Partner Status: Marketing Partner
Products
The piCOBOT Electric vacuum generator
Fully electric, slim design and absence of air-tubing and cabling. The new piCOBOT® Electric heads towards another success for Piab's piCOBOT® program. A secondary effect of these achievements is the absence of entangling air tubing and cabling. It simplifies the installation, and as the new piCOBOT® Electric only needs a single connection on the cobot arm, the clean set-up allows a completely unrestricted movement. The new piCOBOT® Electric package will contain plug & play software to fit UR e-series cobots, but many other useful adaptations will be introduced in the coming year
Articles
ProMat Q&A with Piab
Piab’s exhibit at ProMat 2025 will highlight its dedication to advancing logistics and warehousing operations through cutting-edge vacuum technology.
Reinventing Intralogistics
A comprehensive approach to automation requires networking - not just between the individual components. Because for something really ground-breaking to emerge, already the development must be aligned.
The dm Drugstore Distribution Center Relies on Piab Suction Cups
An average of 3,500 pallets are delivered and picked there every day. A large part of the pallets is depalletized with Piab’s DURAFLEX® suction cups BX52P and fed into the order picking chain.
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 Grp Dist.
Advantages of Vacuum driven Soft Grips for Food Production
The main advantage of having lightweight EOAT is the ability to handle the objects while not adding much weight to the end of the robot arm. This enables using smaller robots/machines as all their power can be utilized to handle the food products.
MODEX Q&A - PIAB
We have developed specialized lifting solutions to solve the problems with repetitive strain injuries of manual handling in most of the areas in a Distribution Center (receiving dock, storage area, picking area, shipping dock). Booth #2602
With Piab’s Bag Grippers, Sapho Increases Its Pace
The impetus was that we wanted to get more power out of the machine and wanted to pack the pallets cleaner and more dimensionally stable. The technology, the know-how and the service convinced us of Piab, after we looked at several manufacturers.
PACK EXPO 2019 - Piab
Piab is proud to introduce to Pack Expo the new soft gripping tool piSOFTGRIP®, developed especially with food industry automation in mind. The vacuum-based soft gripper will grip sensitive and lightweight objects of odd geometries and/or an unusual surface. Booth #C-4736
Talking Automate 2019 with PIAB
Booth #8360 - piCOBOT®, an EOAT designed for collaborative robots (cobots) using brand new technology from Piab to handle products on a Universal cobot.
Choose Your Cobot Vacuum Gripper Wisely
Plug-and-play cobots offer a perfect transition from manual handling or assembly to more automated operations. But, it is important to choose one with a powerful and safe grip!
Kissing It Better: Lifting Ergonomically with Vacuum
By using the right suction and the right lips for the job, you really can “kiss it better” before lifting, rather than after.
Filling Without Spilling
Watching a form-fill-seal machine in operation is rather fascinating. It looks so easy, but the precision technology needed to ensure that bag after bag is being filled without breaking, or its intended content being misdirected and wasted, is far from simple.
Vacuum-based Bag Handling
Traditionally, vacuum-based bag handling systems have been marred by problems to the extent that it has been almost impossible to use them.
Added Value From An Ejector With Integrated Controls?
Air-driven ejectors are gaining pace as the vacuum source for suction cup handling equipment on robots and special purpose machines (ex: case/carton erectors, de-stackers, unloading equipment, etc.)
White Papers
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Press Releases
Piab expands product offering with Magnetic Grippers
Piab is pleased to announce the addition of magnetic grippers to our product portfolio, reinforcing our commitment to delivering comprehensive solutions tailored to industrial requirements.
Piab's FLC expands Piab suction cup universe
piGRIP® FLC is a new component, an interface, that expands the usability of all existing Piab suction cups. "Regardless of application, this product helps handling height differences and off-angle-picking in a simplified yet sophisticated way" says Lennart Ryberg, Product Manager of Piab Vacuum Automation Division.
Piab - Custom tool CPT now a configurable product
After two successful years as a custom line product, cobot palletizing tool CPT is now due for a move to the standard assortment. "We're happy to provide this versatile tool as a fully configurable product to all customers in search of state-of-the-art palletizing", says Madeleine Sheikh, Global Product Manager.
Piab revolutionizes vacuum system configuration with OVM Pro 3D tool
After more than two years of development, Johnny Skagersjö and his team can now proudly present the solution. OVM Pro 3D, which stands for "Optimal Vacuum Management Professional," leverages advanced 3D modelling and simulation to streamline the system design process on-line, offering a range of benefits from control and efficiency to significant cost savings.
piSAFE® - now even safer
Since its introduction in 2021, piSAFE® has clearly been the vacuum ejector of choice where an exceptionally high level of gripping safety is necessary for a stable manufacturing process. The key feature being the vacuum safety valve which maintains the vacuum level in the COAX® based pump at all times.
piCOBOT® Electric breaks the barriers of cobot arm movement
"This is the most versatile and energy efficient electric pump unit on the market for cobot applications", says Madeleine Sheikh, Global Product Manager at Piab Group.
Piab USA Announces New Office Location in Canton, MA
The new office, located at 100 Energy Drive], will serve as the central hub for Piab USA's operations, housing its management, sales, support, R&D and distribution center.
New piCOBOT® plug & play configuration for FANUC CRX cobots
Piab continues the journey to make our foremost cobot tool family available to all end users. We now offer piCOBOT® and piCOBOT®L in completely FANUC CRX adapted versions. Plug & Play in every aspect.
Selected AVAC Products Now Available Under Piab Brand
In August 2022, Piab acquired AVAC, adding innovative products for sealed applications to their automation components business. After months of preparation, a selection of AVAC's product assortment, which includes some of the company's most trusted bestsellers, is now available under the Piab brand.
Acclaimed BXP cups see new family member and configurator premiere
Our widely acclaimed BXP cups, most often used to pick objects with particularly porous surfaces, will now be complemented with a 45 mm [1.77 in] version. Following that, the full cup family will be moved into our configurator, expanding customers' prospects to efficiently match their process needs.
