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Piab company profile

Piab supplies vacuum automation products including suction cups, vacuum pumps, ejectors, soft grippers and robot/cobot gripping systems.

Segment: End Effectors

Country: Sweden

Founded: 1968

Website: https://www.piab.com

Profile context

Piab fills a suction and vacuum end-effector gap for robot picking, packaging, logistics, food handling and factory automation cells. Piab provides suction cups, vacuum-driven soft grippers, EOAT components and cobot gripper systems for robot handling applications.

Vacuum and suction gripping layer

Piab sits in the vacuum end-effector layer, supplying suction cups, vacuum pumps, ejectors, soft grippers and cobot/robot gripper systems.

Target environment: Picking, packaging, food handling, logistics, kitting and other robot-handling cells.
Deployment model: Component and subsystem supplier through vacuum automation and robot/cobot gripping products.
Customer context: Automation integrators and robot-cell builders selecting EOAT for variable product handling.
Workflow context: Vacuum generation, suction-cup selection, soft gripping and EOAT integration.
Commercial maturity: Established vacuum automation supplier with public robot and cobot gripping product lines.
Market position: Suction systems are common in high-throughput robot picking where mechanical grippers are too slow, bulky or product-specific.
Adoption constraints: Fit depends on object surface, porosity, weight, cycle time, vacuum source and contamination environment.
Adjacent context: Adjacent to Schmalz, OnRobot, Festo and other EOAT suppliers.
Source confidence: medium

Latest events and funding

2023-03-28 - Acquisition - Piab Group acquires COVAL to expand vacuum automation portfolio - COVAL adds vacuum cups, pumps and grippers to Piab Group automation position.

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End-effector supplier - Peer Group - Piab supplies vacuum grippers, suction cups and end-of-arm tooling.
Adaptive grasping - Capability - Piab soft and vacuum gripping products support adaptive pick-and-place workflows.
Manufacturing automation supplier - Peer Group - Piab supplies automation components around production and logistics cells.

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