What Is Magnetic Pick and Place?
In my own words, it refers to the magnets that are used for picking up and placement of industrial materials, usually ferrous.
Magnetic Pick and Place Applications
Pick and place magnets allow you to manually or automatically, and are most often used as magnetic grippers for robotics and lifting magnets in industry.
Magnetic Pick and Place in Lifting
In comparison to other methods such as slings, hoists, chains, hooks and grabs, lifting magnets is clearly the most efficient solution for handling ferrous loads. They are ideal for handling heavy industrial materials, such as steel plates, coils, strips, profiles, pipes, billets, round bars, rails, etc., and are widely used in:
- Steel structure
- Shipyard
- Metal cutting workshops
- Warehouses
- Foundries
- Coil and pipe distributors
- Steel wholesalers
- Engineering workshops
Magnetic Pick and Place in Robotics
Magnets in automation, are specially designed for automated picking up, placing or positioning of steel objects by magnetic gripper on robotic arms. They can be used in place of vacuum cups or grippers when holding a metallic workpiece.
They are quick and easy to use, serving as as end of arm tooling, and can catch and transfer various large and small sized substances. Under the on-going trend of “Industry 4.0”, magnetic handling in robotics would be gaining increasing popularity in the near future in automation applications such as:
- Transfer lines
- Conveyor lines
- Pick and place equipment
- General engineering
- Robotics
- Packaging machinery
- Palletising/depalletising systems
Pick and Place Magnet Manufacturer
HVR MAG focuses on the design and manufacturing of lifting magnets and magnetic grippers, for a wide range of industrial material handling applications.
All our pick and place magnets are tailor-made to the unique demands of your manufacturing challenges. Contact us to get a quote.
