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Efficient drive technology for the Industry 4.0 environment
Here you will find the mechanical, electrical and mechatronic Drive Technology for the modern Engineering. We inform about individual Drive Elements or components like Transmission, Couplings, Brakes, Linear Drives, Engines, Inverter etc. as well as complete drive solutions for power transmission in the drive train of a machine or system.
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Brand new electrical and mechanical drive technology
Drive technology today no longer only includes individual components such as gearbox, motor, clutch. Rather, they merge here in the sign of Drive technology 4.0 or Industrial 4.0 increasingly the technical disciplines. Due to the growing integration, networking and autonomy of modern drive technology and its machines, developers focus on their reliability and efficiency.
Drive technology for special industries
The following new products are for special industries like the Automotive industry, Renewable energies, Technical Building Services, Medical Technology, food technology, Microsystems Technology, Mobile Machinery has been developed. You will also find new drive technology from the applied research.
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Smart robotics, which can not only be integrated cost-efficiently, space-savingly and quickly, but are also easy to operate and ensure the necessary flexibility, also help to compensate for the shortage of skilled workers. The company Robco offers a modular robot kit for industrial production. Slim and lightweight robot brakes in the robot arms ensure that the...
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Servo hydraulics in machines combine the best of two worlds: the benefits of hydraulic power transmission with the advantages of servo drives. Baumüller offers a calculator that calculates the potential energy savings when switching from hydraulics to servo-hydraulics. Details about it and products from different manufacturers of the technology can be found below:
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Bosch relies on hydrogen propulsion. Electric cars are important for reducing CO2 emissions in transport. But the question arises as to whether it is also economical to operate heavy commercial vehicles with a payload of 40 t on battery power over long distances? Find out below why Bosch is further developing the technology and what portfolio it has...
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Potato harvesters collect the popular tuber vegetables from the ground during the potato harvest and hand them over to the tractor driving in front. This automated process also does justice to the growing population and to some extent secures the global food supply. A global manufacturer of such potato harvesters had technical problems and turned to Tsubaki. The freewheeling of the drive specialist solved the problem.
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The servo motor and servo amplifier portfolio from Mitsubishi Electric is very versatile. Combined with innovative maintenance, the latest servo systems make machines more efficient, minimize downtime and improve productivity. Now the automation company is going one step further and equipping its servo motors with artificial intelligence (AI). These and other servo motor innovations...
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Koco Motion offers a comprehensive product range of drive technology for medical technology, which is currently booming. With the DC motor, bell rotor motor, brushless DC motor, precision geared motor, precision servo motor and miniature stepper motor portfolio from Constar, almost all developers' wishes can be fulfilled. Medical pumps, surgical instruments, respirators or prostheses, for example, are possible applications.
Drive technology for mechanical and plant engineering
Drive technology plays an important role in machine and plant engineering in the context of factory automation in the context of Industry 4.0. Preventive Maintenance (preventive maintenance), Predictive Maintenance (predictive maintenance) or Condition monitoring (Machine condition monitoring) is integrated into countless mechanical and electrical applications. Sensors, encoder and communication technology have found their way into engines, transmissions, Rolling and even clutch or brake.
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Schaeffler sets new standards in things Linear unit and Linear motor. While the linear drives offer high percentage performance improvements, customer-specific linear modules increase the range. Find out what advantages you can get with the innovative linear actuatoren can generate in practice.
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B+R (Bernecker+Rainer) presents the flexible transport system “Supertrak”. Thanks to its high level of flexibility and connectivity, consumer goods manufacturers can optimize their overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and total cost of ownership (TCO) with Packaging 4.0. Supertrak is the new generation of a robust, user-friendly and intelligent transport technology based on long statorLinear motor.
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On February 11th the European Space Agency ESA a historic step has been taken: she has her first reusable space shuttle shot into space and brought back safely to Earth. During the hellish ride through the atmosphere, special ones played Roller screws from SKF is a groundbreaking role in the truest sense of the word.
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stepper motor linear actuators are on the rise, especially if they are the lavish ones Pneumatic cylinder can eliminate. at koco Motion their share of total sales has increased disproportionately in recent years. Reason enough to take a look behind the scenes of the extensive portfolio, which is available in standard and customer-specific versions - the latter in an immense selection, and the trend is increasing.
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The Perndorfer Maschinenbau KG in Kallham, Austria is a developer and manufacturer of water jet cutting systems. For the automated loading of its eight-head pure water jet cutting system, the medium-sized family business uses modular linear axis portals from Rollon .
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IAI compares the advantages of modern electric cylinders Pneumaticsylinder based on the "Robo Cylinder" product series: They are not susceptible to load fluctuations, enable jerk-free starting and stopping, simple speed regulation and the control of a wide variety of positions with the highest level of repeatability.
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koco Motion be expanded now Servomotor and servo controller offer up. Significantly larger drives are now being added to the small servo motors and servo controllers, gearless drives and torque motors. Thanks to a distributor partnership with the Italian Motor Power Company (MPC) drives with a power output of up to 8 kW are now available.
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Baumüller offers many of his electric motors with water cooling. With a new one synchronous motor the drive specialist has now expanded its DST 2 series to include torques from 325 to 60.000 Nm. But also with all other electric motors Water Cooling the very compact design is more powerful than the fan-cooled motors.
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In the newly developed Krause+Mauser "Reflex" rotary transfer machine for machining steering knuckles, the play-free "Roba-guidestop" profile rail brakes from Mayr Antriebstechnik for maximum functional reliability. The brakes act directly on the moving masses of the vertical axes and thus offer reliable protection for people and material.
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In the ski season tens of thousands are drawn to ski in the Alps every day. Fail-safe technology is required so that there are no long queues at the cable cars. The ropeway world market leader Doppelmayr / Garaventa therefore relies on long-life, low-maintenance geared motors from NORD.
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Parallel kinematic hexapods position in six degrees of freedom and work much more precisely than is possible with serial, i.e. stacked systems. Physik Instrumente now presents a compact hexapod for industrial automation.
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More and more applications in the fields of robotics, prosthetics, laboratory automation, medical technology, pumps and the equipment of aircraft cabins require high torque with a very short overall length. With the market launch of the flat brushless DC motor family BXT with grooved winding meet these requirements.