Drive Elements

Drive elements for power transmission

Save total cost of ownership with efficient gear wheels, drive chains, conveyor chains, toothed racks and toothed belts

Image: Tsubaki

Brakes

Brakes for machine safety

with safety brakes, hydraulic, electromagnetic or spring-actuated brakes and clamping elements

Image: Mayr drive technology

Transmission

Transmission for the drive train

Planetary gears, spur gears or heavy-duty gears, low backlash and networkable for mechanical engineering

Image: Schaeffler

Couplings

Drive transmission clutches

Disk coupling, safety coupling, shaft coupling, clamping element, shaft-hub connection for machines and systems

Image: Orbit drive technology

linear actuator

Linear drives for precise movement

Electric linear motor innovations such as ball screws, trapezoidal screws, rack and pinion drives, linear modules and actuators for positioning and strokes

Image: Rodriguez

Engines

Engines with future potential

Synchronous motor, asynchronous motor, geared motor, DC motor, DC and BLDC, stepper motor for your cost-conscious design

Image: Koco Motion

Inverter

Converters for drives in mechanical engineering

Electrical drive technology such as frequency converters, DC converters, stepper motor drivers for efficient drive technology in Industry 4.0

Image: Mitsubishi Electric

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 DrivesEngines, 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.

  • 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...
  • 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:  
  • 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...
  • 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.  
  • 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...
  • 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. 

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.

IAI electric cylinder

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.

Koco Motion MPC assortment 2

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.

Synchronous motor Baumueller

 

mayr10316In 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.

nord10118In 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.

physics instruments0218Parallel 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.

faulhaber0919More 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.

The DC motor is a multi-talent. The all-rounder is not only suitable for many applications in the Automotive engineering, where he is in e.g. B. steering is used. also in the Medical Technology it is used in pumps or surgical instruments. Countless other applications can be found in smart homes, scanners, toys, drones, to name just a few. We present them to you here New developments:

DC motor Kocomotion

 

NORD has evolved from a gearbox manufacturer to a value chain partner for complete solutions Drive Technology developed. The product portfolio also includes the industrial gear Maxxdrive series for maximum output torques of 282.000 Nm for heavy-duty applications. Nord Drivesystem is currently presenting a new industrial gearbox for hoists. The example of a Bascule bridge shows how an individual drive solution with a short delivery time is created. You can find this and other news below:

Nord industrial gear MaxxdriveXD

 

Which one constructor doesn't know them - that Oldham coupling and the three-part construction of two aluminum hubs and a cross disc made of acetal. Also known for their high radial displacement compensation, there is more Potential Buyers / Aggregators in an Oldham clutch from Orbit Drive Technology

Oldham Coupling Orbit

 

How fit Plastic and heavy load together? Igus knows and offers one for this Spindle nut in the new thread nut design. The polymer nut Dry spin JGRM Made from injection molding is therefore an inexpensive alternative to the ball screw nut for the ball screw. Together with one Screw it moves heavy loads wear-resistant and lubricant-free.

Igus spindle nut

 

nord1019NORD presents a new one IE5 synchronous motor (Image) which is a significant improvement in Energy Efficiency reached a new generation of switch cabinetconvert and a Profisafe module for that functional safety of machines and systems. The energy-efficient permanent magnet synchronous motor of the latest generation significantly reduces the losses in comparison with the current IE4 series.