PHD
About
About PHD
PHD develops pneumatic and electric motion components that machine builders combine into automated production equipment. Its portfolio includes ball-screw actuators, dual-rail electric slides, clamps and modular tooling, allowing integrators to select mechanisms for moving, holding and positioning a part. Some clamps incorporate teachable sensors to detect whether a workpiece is present.
Alongside standard components, PHD engineers custom mechanisms for specific production requirements, including glass-container gripping and high-speed bottle-handling equipment. Its Air on Demand approach uses a servo-actuated drive to operate pneumatic actuators through standard air lines in a closed-loop arrangement. This gives machine designers another way to connect electric motion control with pneumatic handling hardware, complementing the company’s conventional actuator and tooling range.
Timeline
Events
- 2018-02-16 - Product Launch - PHD releases Pneu-Connect gripper integration for Universal Robots
The release connected PHD pneumatic grippers directly to UR robot arms. The product included valve hardware and a UR software interface for setup from the cobot teach pendant. The product gives PHD a concrete offering for robot manipulation, haptics or tactile-sensing workflows.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Universal Robots
Flexion Pneu Connect Gripper Compatibility - UR Marketplace lists PHD Flexion Pneu-Connect as a pneumatic gripper package for Universal Robots.
Context
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workflow adjacency - Collaborative Factory Automation · Material Handling
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workflow adjacency - Collaborative Factory Automation · Material Handling
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Context tags
- Industrial gripper builder - Peer Group - Complete pneumatic and electric grippers for robotic pick-and-place and assembly; gripper product families are a defining external offer.
- Material handling - Workflow - PHD's robotics products or services are relevant to material handling workflows.
- End effector - Stack Layer - PHD's robotics role maps to the end effector stack layer.
- End-effector supplier - Peer Group - PHD belongs in the end-effector supplier peer group based on its robotics segment and product or workflow focus.
- Collaborative factory automation - Workflow - PHD's robotics products or services are relevant to collaborative factory automation workflows.