Case Study: Farason Corporation achieves faster custom gripper production with Markforged 3D printing

Farason Corporation delivers custom grippers in hours with Markforged

Farason Corporation, a designer of custom automation and robotics systems, faced a challenge in a packaging application where their robot's mechanical gripper was losing bags during transport. They used a Markforged X7 3D printer to create a proof-of-principle prototype for the end-of-arm tooling, but needed to enhance its performance.

Markforged provided the solution by enabling the team to quickly iterate the design, adding a custom collar flange that was previously impossible to fabricate. Using continuous carbon fiber reinforcement in the Markforged X7 printer, they produced strong, rigid, and lightweight production-ready parts. The result was a highly successful EOAT that met all performance requirements, leading to cheaper parts delivered in hours instead of days.

Farason Corporation