Soft Touch Grippers for Assembly with Schwerdtle ‘Fingertips’

Never worry about proper grip. There are many ways that grippers grasp parts (internal grip, combined grip, external grip). Schwerdtle works with your assembly engineer or integrator to develop custom end of arm tooling components and fingertips designed to maximize your throughput.

Adaptive grippers provide flexibility, allowing for agile manufacturing. Schwerdtle designs and manufactures custom ‘fingertips’ that make your adaptive grippers work better. In many production environments, grippers and end of arm tooling components may be asked to handle different sized, or shaped parts – even the same part may change shape or size during processing. Innovative end effector design will retail all the benefits of a custom-molded piece, but will maximize the versatility of your adaptive gripper requirements.

Schwerdtle manufactures precision-molded gripper fingertips for a specific product, or can be shaped to accommodate different cylindrical or complex shaped parts. Our proprietary process for bonding silicone and urethane to metal, creates durable soft-faced fingertips that will not mar delicate or fragile (Grade A) plastic surfaces. The increased coefficient of friction allows for lighter grab forces, further protecting fragile or thin wall items. Our silicone gripper fingertips are heat resistant to 600˚F, and are ideal for picking parts from injection molds or plasma polished parts, holding parts for assembly, or inserting completed products into packaging.