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AGS Automation Greifsysteme Schwope GmbH

AGS Automation Greifsysteme Schwope GmbH

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Bergisch Gladbach, Germany family firm making modular robot gripper kits and EOAT for plastics handling; its Channel Nut kit spans 2,500+ parts.

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AGS Automation Greifsysteme Schwope GmbH is a German family company in Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne, that designs and manufactures gripper systems and end-of-arm tooling for robots and injection moulding removal handlers. Founded by Franz Schwope and now managed by Marc Schwope, the business cites more than 30 years of experience and three generations of family involvement. It is registered at the Cologne district court under HRB 65721 and keeps its value chain in-house at Braunsberger Feld 15, a site that runs on a 1,600 square metre solar installation of about 450 kWp and wood-chip heating. The company holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification and markets its products as made in Germany.

The core of the range is two modular gripper construction kits. The PreciGrip system arranges components at 90 degrees so that only the active element needs adjustment, works without slot nuts, needs a single tool and allows later additions. Its catalog runs from dovetail-guided mechanical and semi-automatic quick-change systems with air and electrical couplings, P13 and P22 prism profiles, connectors and clamps, through suction arms, oval suction cups in silicone, nitrile and long-life polyurethane, sprue gripper tongs with 8 to 32 mm pistons and finger grippers with 16 and 26 mm pistons, to textile grippers for limp parts, sprue cutters, lift-and-rotate units, vacuum generators, air distributors with up to 16 outlets and proximity and light sensors for part-presence monitoring. In 2026 the company added pneumatic soft grippers to the PreciGrip program. The older Channel Nut kit, based on a 25/25 clamping profile, offers more than 2,500 components compatible with 10, 14, 20 and 30 mm clamping diameters, with manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic quick-change designs.

Complete gripper solutions are offered as standard and special grippers, including vacuum suction (SG), magnetic (MGR), inner bellows (IBG), finger (GFI), parallel (PAG and PAG-LC) and needle (NAG) grippers. Tools around the kits include the CadGrip 2.2 offline configurator, which runs from a USB stick without CAD software, and the Montageboy assembly station with a quick-change mount, Venturi vacuum and function test. Automation equipment covers sprue cutting stations, manual workstations and feeding systems, and contract manufacturing is offered in CNC turning and 3D printing.

The website carries pages for robots and handlers from ABB, Fanuc, KUKA, Universal Robots, Yaskawa, Arburg, Engel, KraussMaffei, Sepro, Sumitomo Demag and Wittmann, among others, while the plastics industry is named as the main market. Reference customers shown include KUKA, TRW, Wolf Garten, Mahle, Vorwerk, Volkswagen, IKEA and BMW. Registered customers get prices, CAD data and order history through an online shop, and the site is published in German, English and US English versions.

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PreciGrip gripper construction kit

Modular EOAT kit with 90-degree component layout where only the active element is adjusted; no slot nuts needed.

Channel Nut Gripper Kit

Standard gripper kit on a 25/25 channel nut clamping profile with more than 2,500 components.

Pneumatic soft grippers (PreciGrip program)
  • Launch Year: 2026

Pneumatic soft grippers added to the PreciGrip program in 2026 for handling delicate parts.

CadGrip 2.2 gripper configurator

Offline gripper configuration software run from a USB stick, needing no CAD software or installation.

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Contact AGS Automation Greifsysteme Schwope GmbH

WEBSITE

https://www.ags-automation.de

EMAIL

[email protected]

PHONE

+49 2204 96810-0

HEADQUARTERS

Braunsberger Feld 15
Bergisch Gladbach , North Rhine-Westphalia  51429

Germany

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