The Manual Tool Changer is our own design, built at TMC for teams that run one cobot with several end effectors but do not need a fully automatic tool change. You mount the cobot side once, put a tool side under every gripper or tool you use, and from then on switching takes a couple of seconds by hand.
Locking is automatic. Push the tool side into the cobot side and the mechanism catches on its own, so there is nothing to tighten and nothing that can be forgotten. To take a tool off again you press the release button and pull it free. No wrenches, no loose bolts on the shop floor and no risk of a half tightened tool.
The changer carries payloads up to 10 kg and mounts straight onto the tool flange of your Fairino cobot. It is purely mechanical, so there are no air or electrical pass throughs. A tool that needs power or compressed air keeps its own cable or hose, which you unplug along with the tool.
Manual or pneumatic tool changer?
Choose the manual version when someone is at the machine anyway at the moment of the change, for example a machine tending cell that switches between two grippers at the start of a new batch. It costs less, needs no valve, no air line and no extra wiring, and it is mounted in minutes. Choose the Pneumatic Quick Tool Changer when the cobot has to pick up and drop its own tools during the program, with nobody standing next to it.
The Manual Tool Changer comes as a complete set with one cobot side and three tool sides, or as separate parts when you want to add tool sides later.
Key Features
- Maximum payload: 10 kg
- Tool change by hand in seconds, no tools needed
- Automatic locking as soon as the tool side is pushed home
- Push button release
- Purely mechanical, no compressed air or wiring needed
- Mounts directly on the Fairino cobot tool flange
- Designed and built in house by TMC
- Available as a complete set or as separate parts
Technical Specifications
- Maximum payload: 10 kg
- Actuation: manual
- Locking: automatic mechanical locking
- Release: push button
- Pneumatic pass throughs: none
- Electrical pass throughs: none
- Mounting: Fairino cobot tool flange
- Available configurations:
- Complete set (1 cobot side + 3 tool sides)
- Cobot side only
- Tool side only
Applications
- Machine tending with more than one gripper
- Switching between a gripper and a vacuum tool
- Palletising and packaging cells with changing formats
- Assembly stations
- Small series and job shop work
- Education, demo cells and research setups
