Roemhelds 5-Axis Clamping In Industry 4.0

As a key innovator in Industry 4.0, Roemheld offers a wide range of products designed to support a ‘smart factory’ environment. These tackle the challenges companies face when looking to increase automation within the manufacturing process.

5-Axis clamping can present particular challenges and so Roemheld has developed an electronic wireless pressure sensor offering stationary and mobile measurement of rotating or hard-to-reach sections of hydraulic clamping fixtures. Designed for use with automatic manufacturing systems, transfer lines, assembly lines and rotary indexing fixtures and tables, up to 16 pressure sensors can be individually configured and monitored from a single receiver.

Ideal for applications where wired connections are impractical or too expensive, the wireless electronic pressure sensor uses radio transmission with a free-field indoor range of up to 300m and an outdoor range of 60m. The wireless electronic pressure sensor enables the pressure of single or multiple points to be checked simultaneously during start-up and maintenance with minimum installation costs.

Roemheld is a leading innovator within Industry 4.0, having already developed a range of electromechanical tension elements including electric swing clamps.  These are already in use in applications where hydraulics are not suitable.  The company is also working on developing intelligent clamping systems that enable the actual workpiece to be monitored rather than just obtaining data from the spindle.

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