Torque, speed and precision
Faulhaber offers direct drives with hollow shafts for a wide range of applications.
Low weight and high load capacity
Nabtesco offers a wide range of hollow shaft gearboxes. These are slightly larger than solid shaft gearboxes, but the hollow space inside ensures weight savings.
read more...Machinery and warehouse logistics
Sumitomo expands Markt Indersdorf site
Sumitomo has expanded its Markt Indersdorf site and invested in machinery and warehouse logistics.
read more...Synchronizer joints for electromobility
Special tools for electromobility
Requests for components for electrically powered vehicles are increasing. This is also demonstrated by a current project from an automotive supplier that manufactures a drive shaft. The company relies on ball nose end mills from Mapal for the hard machining of the homokinetic outer joint of the drive shaft.
read more...Flexible, durable and precise
SEW-Eurodrive presents a new modular system for precision planetary servo gear units. Its drives are variably selected to meet demanding customer requirements in terms of installation space, capacity utilization and configurability.
read more...Components for ship propulsion systems
Altra presented products from Twiflex, Wichita Clutch, Stromag and Bibby Turboflex at the SMM shipping trade fair. Twiflex presented the TLB system for rotating, locking and braking the drive shaft.
read more...Simulation reduces production time
In order to increase the production volume in the same area with the same personnel resources, the plant manufacturer Homag Group wanted to be able to test the machines to be produced extensively before they were commissioned.
read more...Experts expect growth impetus for composites from mechanical engineering
The mechanical engineering sector is currently still lagging far behind the major customer industries for fiber composites, such as the automotive industry. However, studies are forecasting moderate growth, driven by technical necessities that are increasingly focusing on the lightweight construction properties of the materials.
read more...More scope for design optimizations
The wave springs and retaining rings from US manufacturer Smalley, distributed by TFC, are used in the assemblies of gearboxes and clutches.
read more...Tubix series: one shape, many possibilities
New things are created when people start to disregard existing principles that have been recognized as the status quo up to now. In this way, a creative team at Neff Gewindetriebe has rethought the previously known worm gear screw jacks and developed the Tubix series.
read more...Cylindrical grinding of gear shafts
Emag has developed a horizontal cylindrical grinding machine for the precision machining of shafts in series production. Using a modular principle, these machines can be adapted to a wide variety of machining tasks and integrated into the manufacturer's production lines.
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