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HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series

About

About HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series

ChangingTek’s HM heavy-duty grippers cover task-specific tools for bulky industrial loads. The CTHM3F460 uses a modular six-finger mechanism with 460 mm travel and a stated 60 kg load, while other variants handle bags, luggage and irregular workpieces with pneumatic or servo drives.

Position, speed and force can be programmed and reported over industrial interfaces such as I/O, Modbus RTU and TCP/IP. Integrated drive-and-control packaging lets system builders add the tooling to robot cells for logistics, manufacturing and aerospace handling.

Context

Market context

HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series is Changing Tek's large-format gripping and transfer family for high-load industrial handling.

  • Target environment: Industrial automation cells, heavy workpiece handling stations, transfer lines and robot end-effector integrations.
  • Workflow context: Large-part gripping, transfer, high-load handling, industrial manipulation and automation-cell tooling.
  • Customer context: Factories, integrators and automation teams needing heavier gripping hardware than compact cobot grippers provide.
  • Deployment model: Commercial gripper and transfer-unit family with multiple variants and published specification ranges.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial component family with broad variant coverage across force, travel, load and communication options.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload, travel, gripper geometry, communication interface, pneumatic or electric setup and integration with robot cells.
  • Market position: Heavy-duty end-effector family positioned above collaborative light grippers for larger industrial handling tasks.
  • Adjacent products: AG Collaborative Gripper Series, Schunk heavy-duty grippers, Zimmer grippers, OnRobot VGP

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