Costas Charalambous is the Technical Sales Manager at Zimmer Group US Inc, which is based in Hickory North Carolina. He has almost 25 years’ experience in the automation industry, mostly working with grippers and other end-of-arm tooling.

Current Trends Toward more flexible End Effectors and End of Arm Tooling Gives Industrial Robots a Helping Hand.

Zimmer Group US is a subsidiary of Zimmer Group GmbH, based in Rheinau Germany. Founded over 40 years ago, they one of the industry leaders in handling technology, particularly grippers, linear clamping and braking products, as well as industrial damping components.

Here are some of the questions that I asked Costas on the pod:

What is happening in end of arm tools? Are you seeing any short, medium or long-term trends?

How has COVID-19 affected automation companies? Are you working differently? EOAT trends during the pandemic?

EOAT in general Trends: smaller, bigger, smarter?

What industries are keeping you busy today?

Complex EOAT or simple?

Can you tell me and our audience about MATCH?

The Future: Are End effectors getting smarter?

Enjoy the podcast.

Regards,

Jim

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Thanks to Costas and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.

If you would like to find out more about Zimmer Group check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Costas here is his LinkedIn profile.

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Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at [email protected]

Keywords and terms for this podcast: EOAT, End of Arm Tools, #therobotindustrypodcast, Costas Charlambous, Zimmer Group.