Advanced workholding solutions for digitalised manufacturing environments

13.10.2025

At the forthcoming EMO 2025 show workholding equipment manufacturer Roemheld will present its comprehensive suite of digitalised workholding solutions, which allow manufacturers to integrate their clamping processes into an Industry 4.0 factory environment.

Photo: Stark.intelligence digital zero-point clamping technology is a sensor-based system that allows digital status monitoring and recording of clamping elements, providing transparency in production and enabling predictive maintenance.
Vir: Roemheld 

Roemheld’s approach to Industry 4.0 is rooted in mechatronics. It involves enhancing existing hydraulic and pneumatic clamping devices with a powerful combination of mechanics, electronics and software. The innovative strategy ensures that even for applications demanding high clamping forces, where hydraulic solutions remain the preferred choice, the benefits of digitalisation may be fully realised. 

At the heart of this philosophy is Stark.intelligence, a system with modular sensors designed to make hydraulically, pneumatically or mechanically operated zero-point clamping systems digital-ready. Each clamp is equipped with its own multi-sensor unit that continuously collects critical information, such as travel (position), temperature and pressure. The data is aggregated by a master unit and transmitted to various end devices via an IO-Link interface, available in both inductive and wired versions. 

Photo: A typical Stark.intelligence 5-axis milling set-up for automated loading, accommodating six Stark.classic zero-point elements with sensor boxes and a master unit with IO-Link coupler.
Vir: Roemheld 

Stark.intelligence offers a high degree of modularity and flexibility, allowing easy installation into machine tables or quick-release pallets. Users can tailor their solution, selecting individual components or opting for a complete package that includes advanced visualisation. Optional features, such as an integrated RFID interface, further reduce the need for operator intervention by automatically detecting pallets and workpieces. 

The Roemheld product family encompasses a variety of digital-ready workholding solutions including swing clamps, wedge clamping elements and zero-point clamping systems. In addition, there is the Hilma AS-E type electromechanical machine vice, which eliminates the need for additional sensors by leveraging the motor itself to provide data for displacement and force measurement, which is seamlessly transmitted to the control system. 

The AS-E vice’s ability to operate without a minimum pressure makes it well-suited to retaining delicate, thin-walled workpieces requiring very low clamping forces. Its programmability allows for precise control of clamping stroke and force for each component, enabling entire families of parts to be automatically set up and manufactured within a single workholding system, without manual intervention. 

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