Lightweight additive technology for increased efficiency in the packaging industry

Quick and easy optimisation of highly individual grippers in automation technology

Lightweight gripper for the packaging industry

With MSC Apex Generative Design, lightweight designs can be created quickly and easily for many different gripper designs, making the process more efficient and faster.

Lightweight additive

End customers and trade demand an ever greater variety of packaging and a quick adaptation to new products. Gerhard Schubert GmbH, a family-owned company from Crailsheim in Germany, is specialized in delivering suitable machines, yet the optimisation with a classical approach and software did not provide satisfactory results and also involved a high development effort.

A combination of Generative Design and Additive Manufacturing promised a solution. For generating lightweight, optimised grippers, MSC Apex Generative Design turned out to be the perfect solution for this, complemented by Hexagon’s process simulation, validation and quality assurance tools.

Download now this case study to read how those tools could improve the company’s product development and optimisation process.