Facts

• Company: Changing Tek
• Product type: Gripper
• Status: commercial
• Website: https://www.changingtek.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series is Changing Tek gripper line for larger industrial payloads. It is built for heavy material handling, machine loading and production tasks where robots need stronger gripping force than standard collaborative grippers.

Overview

HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series is Changing Tek gripper line for larger industrial payloads. It is built for heavy material handling, machine loading and production tasks where robots need stronger gripping force than standard collaborative grippers.

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

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Large-part gripping, transfer, high-load handling, industrial manipulation and automation-cell tooling.

Capability

Robotic Grasping

Deployment environment

Industrial automation cells, heavy workpiece handling stations, transfer lines and robot end-effector integrations.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Large-part gripping, transfer, high-load handling, industrial manipulation and automation-cell tooling.
• Capability: Robotic Grasping
• Deployment environment: Industrial automation cells, heavy workpiece handling stations, transfer lines and robot end-effector integrations.

Specifications

• Variant Summary: CTHM, CTABG, CTABX and CTBSM family variants
• Gripping Force: 100-1200 N maximum gripping force across variants
• Travel: 50-530 mm maximum travel range across variants
• Repeatability: Repeat positioning accuracy from ±0.2 mm to ±0.3 mm
• Communication: Modbus RTU+IO and IO across listed variants
• Payload Capacity Kg Range: 60-80 kg maximum load range across variants kg
• Speed Range: up to 300 mm/s opening and closing speed m/s

Tags

• Peer Group: Heavy-Duty Grippers, Robot gripper component
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation
• Capability: Robotic Grasping
• Stack Layer: Manipulation stack layer

Comparable Systems

• 3-Finger Adaptive Gripper - Robotiq - Gripper
• AG Collaborative Gripper Series - Changing Tek - Gripper
• PM Parallel Gripper Series - Changing Tek - Gripper
• MSC Electric Vacuum Actuator Series - Changing Tek - Component Family
• MG Humanoid Gripper Series - Changing Tek - Gripper
• GCKW 3-Finger Gripper - CKD Corporation - Component Family
• Unitree Dex1-1 - Unitree - Gripper