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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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Twenty years ago we would probably have suspected innovative high-tech applications and state-of-the-art sensors as the last thing in the cowshed. However, this traditional image of agriculture is long out of date. In some respects, farms are now like industrial companies. Today, almost one in five cowsheds in Germany has jumped on the digitalization train. The BLDC motors from Minebea Mitsumi PM DM should not be missing.
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koco Motion presents the next generation with the EM_S stepper motordrivern, which are controlled via the clock-direction interface. They offer better setting options, are even easier to use and have better performance than their predecessors. Drivers for the factory of the future are available with either a CAN open or EtherCAT interface.
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BLDC motors are all-rounders and are therefore suitable for countless applications. This is how he walks BLDC motor for example in power tools, pumps, conveyor belts, Robot and other machines efficiently move electrical energy. With their property of high power density, a large number of z. B. in Automobile Save weight and thus lower fuel and pollutant emissions. Minebea Mitsumi offers such a Brushless Motor Portfolio. We report here on applications and new developments.
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When it comes to the manufacture and processing of thermoplastics, extrusion has established itself as the most important manufacturing process. Especially for use in extruder offers NORD a extruder gears, which is optimized for heavy-duty use. In addition to the powerful Maxxdrive industrial gearbox, Nord also produces complete drive solutions in extruder design.
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For the first time, WEG presents an IE5 permanent magnet motor that has even fewer losses than its predecessor. The W22 Super Premium IE4 asynchronous motor has an efficiency of 96,6% and is one of the first motors on the market to meet the previously formulated criteria of a possible energy efficiency class IE5. The manufacturer will also be presenting its explosion-protected asynchronous motors of the W22x series, which are now also available in IE4 design.
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Framo Morat and MinebeaMitsumi present their jointly developed hub motor. This is a highly integrated wheel hub drive that offers above-average performance in the tightest of spaces. Due to its compact design, the modular and scalable drive is ideal for use in driverless transport vehicles or automated guided vehicles.
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The "Tork Drive" is a new torque motor from Harmonic Drive AG. It is suitable for maximum dynamics, accuracy and system rigidity. The stator and rotor are supplied as individual components without a housing and therefore offer an extremely compact option for direct integration into the machine design.
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In our first round of experts with
Norbert Scholz
Sales and Technology Management, Baumüller Nürnberg GmbH, Nuremberg
Patrik Menges
Head of Market Organization Germany, SEW-Eurodrive, Bruchsal
Jürgen Amedick
CEO Business Unit Large Drives, Siemens AG, Drive Technologies Division, Nuremberg
We will give you an up-to-date overview of the state of drive technology in the run-up to the Hannover Messe. Focus of the interviews are energy efficiency, communication, integration and the Hannover Messe highlights of the participating companies.
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The DC motor 2668… CR from Faulhaber offers significantly more power than comparable drives and is the most powerful copper-graphite commutated DC micro motor on the market in its size class. Thanks to an enlarged NdFeB magnet and a higher copper content in the winding, it delivers a nominal torque of 70 mNm. With a diameter of 26 mm, it weighs only 189 g.
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Two international companies headquartered in Germany have successfully completed a project of great importance for the construction industry in the Persian Gulf. With drive technology from NORD the SMS Group built a heavy section mill in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Only the most robust electric drives can withstand heavy mechanical loads and extreme heat, dirt and steam, as an application video and the following article show.
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If you believe the analysts at IDC, the amount of digital data generated worldwide is expected to increase tenfold by 2025. We're talking about over 160 zettabytes, an unimaginable number with 21 zeros. The motor development center PM DM Minebea deals with hard disk motors, the ultimate long storage medium, and provides a prognosis for the future.
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Interview with
Rainer Ott
Technical sales, dr Eric Tretter GmbH + Co., Rechberghausen
The interview was given on October 8, 2019 at Motek in Stuttgart.