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Gripping technology used in the massive forming, have to withstand extreme environmental conditions.
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18.06.2009 -
On May 27, 2009 SCHUNK welcomed 50 participants to the "4th Industrial Working Committee Automation" of the massive forming industry association in order to exchange information on the present developments and research projects of their industry.
Funded as a publically promoted research project, the committee meets on a regular basis to further promote the massive forming industry. Industries which depend on the inherent reliability of massive forming are the automotive industry, the machine building industry, as well as the aerospace industry, the energy sector, the pharmaceutical technology, and the ship building industry.
A total of seven speakers from well-known companies, research institutes, and universities introduced their present projects and delivered an insight into their research and development works at the end of May. Among others Mr. Thomas Ledermann from the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, presented new robot solutions for small and medium-sized factories from the European research project SMErobot. Mr. Stefan Kerpe, Manager of the SCHUNK Engineering Department in Germany, introduced development-accompanying simulations, which considerably facilitates the problem-solving for high-dynamic systems and processes in forges.
The top-class event showed, how the cooperation of research institutions and innovative companies from the robot and handling technology develop economic solutions for this especially rough environment.
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