SMC’s expertise helps you to achieve the results you demand from your system. Our experts offer the optimal solution that fits perfectly with your needs. Years of knowledge with vacuum applications together with the wide range of SMC products are the perfect match to fill all your needs with vacuum.
SMC supports you throughout the vacuum system, from the filtration and regulation to the End of Arm Tooling (EOAT), trying to offer the most efficient and energy-saving solution possible, while giving high performance and reliability. As a complete supplier of automation, we offer unique solutions in the market: valve and ejector combined manifold, wireless system, cylinder with vacuum pad, air amplifier, etc.
There are many aspects to be aware of when designing a vacuum system, arguably, at the top of the list, are smart vacuum solutions thanks to the capabilities they bring. SMC offers smart manifolds that provide precise control and communication that allows you to implement a condition-monitoring and predictive maintenance strategy to fit your machines in the IIoT.
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Becoming fully acquainted with the workpiece should always be your starting point for any project involving a vacuum handling system. SMC offers a wide variety of vacuum pads to meet all your requirements.
With the world's first integrated Wireless valve system, any robotic application can benefit from both reduced installation time and costly production downtime. Easier and cost-effective with no industrial communication cables.
Take a look at our filters that prevent problems in vacuum equipment caused by contaminants in the air. With them, it is possible to achieve or exceed the declared service life of the components, which can save considerably on maintenance costs.
Do you need to know how your vacuum installation is working?
Sensor measuring needs are as vast as the solutions we have to cater to them.
When several tools have to be used in the same robot application, don't hesitate, take a look at our next product.
Achieve flexible & simple solutions by merging cobots and end effectors
Flexibility, easy integration and fast operation are 3 requirements that industry increasingly demands for automation, the same 3 features that collaborative robots – or cobots – achieve.
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Specialised solutions with which SMC allows you to handle whatever you need.
We now want to share our solutions for energy efficiency with you that will help you to embrace good energy policies for your business in a very intuitive and simple way.
SMC works on smart communication in two ways: supporting our customers in specific solutions and offering state-of-the-art products, such as our unique Wireless Fieldbus System and our wide variety of IO-Link solutions, thereby providing your factory with smart digitalisation and automation.
By Martina Höller, Electrical technology product manager CEE, SMC Austria
JUNE 2022
With energy prices surging across Europe, efficiency has become a high priority for all manufacturing and process plants using vacuum handling systems. Fortunately, based on decades of experience and know-how, SMC can outline four simple ways that you can reduce the energy consumption of your vacuum system. Using less energy per lift/transfer will provide a direct contribution to your bottom-line profitability while simultaneously supporting industry’s drive to net-zero carbon emissions.
By Irina Hermann, Product Manager, SMC Germany
JUNE 2022
We all know that the centrepiece of any vacuum system is the application and system layout, typically involving the method of vacuum generation, and thus whether you use ejectors or pumps to generate the negative pressure and transfer the workpieces. However, there are many more important system components which, if overlooked, could mean that your vacuum handling unit fails to perform at its optimum level.
By Tom Litster, Engineer, Air Equipment, SMC European Technical Centre
JUNE 2022
The performance of your vacuum handling system is typically only as good as its configuration for the specific application in hand. This of course makes direct reference to the workpiece you are looking to lift or transfer in terms of its weight and shape, for example, while further considerations include target cycle time and stroke travel. Upon establishing these factors it becomes possible to experiment with vacuum level, pad diameter and number of pads to deliver the optimal-performing vacuum handling system, one that is fast, reliable and energy-efficient.