HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series 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

Audience

Factories

Workflow

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

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
  • Speed Range: up to 300 mm/s opening and closing speed

Tags

  • Peer Group: Heavy-Duty Grippers, Robot grippers, Electric grippers
  • Workflow: End-effector manipulation, Material handling
  • Capability: Robotic grasping
  • Stack Layer: Manipulation stack

Comparable Systems

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