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Exoskeletons: full backing

11. June 2025 Hans Georg Schätzl

Pain, muscle tension, fatigue – for many employees, these are everyday companions. Exoskeletons relieve the body during strenuous activities, such as overhead work. People tire less and work without discomfort. […]

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Configuring spring plungers made easy

13. February 2024 Hans Georg Schätzl

The FSTIm and FSTImc spring plungers from Schmalz can be individually adapted to different requirements. This provides companies with customized solutions for their plant automation. Schmalz offers a new online […]

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The gripper makes the difference

15. September 2023 Hans Georg Schätzl

A tour of the production halls of Aliaxis Deutschland GmbH shows just how versatile the Schmalz JumboFlex is. Again and again, a silver crane boom and the blue protective hose […]

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Now it’s even more individual

11. July 2023 Hans Georg Schätzl

Schmalz has updated its ControlRoom app. The most important innovation: It becomes more individual. After scanning the QR code, the user now receives information individually about his device. The app […]

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New grippers, efficient systems, faster processes

20. June 2023 Hans Georg Schätzl

Schmalz is addressing the challenges of industrial automation at Automatica 2023 (June 27 to 30) in Munich. At booth A5.303, the vacuum expert will be presenting innovations – both from […]

This cobot needs a good eye

12. January 2023 Hans Georg Schätzl

Every day, 60 hands sort around 3,000 boxes of screws, nuts and other fasteners at Würth’s VZ West sales center. A few months ago, a collaborative robot joined the team […]

The heart of compressed air-free vacuum automation is a powerful vacuum generator such as the Compact Pump GCPi. © Schmalz

Automation for tomorrow: digital and green

24. August 2022 Hans Georg Schätzl

Automation is both a blessing and a curse: it ensures competitiveness and eases personnel bottlenecks. However, the increasing use of robots also increases energy requirements and thus the product carbon […]

With one hand, the ordered furniture is quickly loaded on the pallet. © Schmalz

The mover for forking

10. August 2022 Hans Georg Schätzl

JSYK, better known by its former name “Dänisches Bettenlager,” wants its customers to feel good. This caused backache for the employees in the logistics warehouse – when picking the heavy […]

High suction force at low vacuum: The special gripper STGG is also used for handling ultra-thin separator films. © J. Schmalz GmbH

Kid gloves for batteries

19. July 2022 Hans Georg Schätzl

They are smeared, rolled and cut – the road that copper and aluminum foils have to travel sounds tough until they can perform their role as anode and cathode in […]

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Dr. Kurt Schmalz receives Rudolf Diesel Medal

11. July 2022 Hans Georg Schätzl

Dr. Kurt Schmalz, managing partner of J. Schmalz GmbH, was awarded the prestigious Rudolf Diesel Medal on Thursday evening. It convinced the expert jury in the category “Most sustainable innovation […]