The mission

  •  Lift and move barrels with chemicals or pills and empty them into funnels for mixers or packaging
  • Gradually empty the contents with full control of the operator
  • The barrels must be gripped exactly tight enough to be neither dropped nor crushed
  • It should not be possible to release the barrel when it is in the air
  • The machine is going to be used in clean rooms

Requirements for the manipulator

  •  Maximum load about 100 kg
  • The barrel must be kept immobile when emptied
  • It must be possible to control the emptying steplessly
  • Soft but secure grip of the barrel
  • Safety function to prevent release into the air
  • Fully encapsulated, smooth mechanism so that no dust can get stuck in cracks
  • Must withstand cleaning with hot lye