Tool Changer supports payloads up to 1,500 kg.
Press Release Summary:
With driver/cam geometry, Sigma NextGen™ provides moment and acceleration capabilities to handle high dynamic robots. Design ensures optimal coupling under extreme load conditions, and tool changer maintains safety with coupled mechanism during loss of compressed air. Sigma NextGen supports variety of servo tools and bus communications including Sigma SmartComm™ Communications Module, which features diagnostics via webpage and ability to schedule maintenance and run various reports.
Original Press Release:
Applied Robotics Announces Introduction of Next Generation Tool Changer: the Sigma Nextgen(TM)
Applied Robotics’ Sigma NextGen™ is the latest in the Established line of Sigma Tool Changers, Designed to keep Pace with Industry Demands.
Glenville, New York — Applied Robotics Inc., a leading global manufacturer of robotic end-of-arm tooling and connectivity solutions, today announced theintroduction of its new tool changer in the Sigma line, the Sigma NextGen™, designed to keep pace with the development of higher dynamic robots and the need to address an increased payload range, up to 1500kg with the Sigma NextGen™ 200 (6). The Sigma NextGen™ has driver/cam geometry to provide increased moment and acceleration capabilities to handle today’s high dynamic robots. This design ensures robust coupling under the most extreme load conditions, and the tool changer maintains safety with a coupled mechanism during loss of compressed air.
The Sigma NextGen™, as well as the entire Sigma line, supports a wide variety of servo tools and bus communications including the new Sigma SmartComm™ Communications Module which features Diagnostics via a webpage and the ability to schedule maintenance and run various reports. The SmartComm™ is also released today.
A common profile in the entire Sigma Line of Tool Changers provides modularity and allows for interchangeability of utility modules, further increasing efficiency and flexibility. Later on this year, expect to see more additions to the Sigma line in NextGen™ versions, easily accommodating a variety of industries and applications.Â
“Our customers’ changing requirements were our highest priority in the design process for the Sigma NextGen™," said Cliff Annis, Vice president of Applied Robotics Inc. “The Sigma NextGen™ is poised to meet and exceed any application challenges.”
Applied Robotics Inc., headquartered in Glenville, N.Y., is an ISO-9001 registered, employee-owned company serving the world’s automation market. Founded in 1983, Applied Robotics designs and manufactures end-of-arm tooling and connectivity solutions intended to solve complex automation problems and improve efficiencies. Serving a wide spectrum of customers and industries ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to small privately-held businesses, the company’s wrist-down solutions can be found in manufacturing, welding, assembly, material removal and material handling applications throughout the United States, Canada, Pacific Rim, Mexico, South America, Australia and Europe, via Applied Robotics, Europe. More information can be found on the company’s website at www.arobotics.com.
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