Drive technology: Manufacturer, reports, information at INDUSTRIAL Production

AI optimizes the maintenance efficiency of drive systems

The Mindsphere application Predictive Service Assistance from Siemens uses artificial intelligence to optimize the maintenance efficiency of drive systems.

Networked industry

Profibus and Profinet International at SPS Connect

The Profibus user organization uses the virtual trade fair to present the latest developments in network technologies.

Production technology

How research is driving e-mobility forward

The further development of production technology is a major challenge for electromobility. The industry's development work is being actively supported by research, including by the Chair of Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Kisssoft

Release with new calculation methods

Kisssoft's 2020 release contains numerous new features, including additional methods for evaluating the reliability of transmission concepts.

Modular production

How granular can it be?

Machine and plant manufacturers who pursue a modular approach are often particularly successful. Harting's mechanical engineering customers want to design the modularization of their products as efficiently as possible, with interfaces playing a central role in these concepts.

Robots support logistics processes

Container unloading needs to be regulated

A sea container contains between 20 and 30 tons of cargo. Unloading them is a logistical, time-consuming and physical feat. This is where intelligent robot systems from Copal can provide support, with SEW supplying the appropriate drive and automation technology.

Simulation before commissioning

Virtual systems from the modular system

Reprogramming or even mechanical modifications to a system during commissioning can be avoided if commissioning is tested in advance on a digital twin. What's more, if the digital twin of the virtual system is made up of individual assemblies, the designer can try out different variants in advance.

Overload clutches

Interruption in the shortest possible time

Safety clutches from KBK Antriebstechnik enable precise adjustment of the release torque and thus reliably protect machines against overload damage.

Jakob safety clutch

For high release torques

With the Sky type, Jakob Antriebstechnik offers a safety clutch for indirect drives for overload limitation and collision protection that meets the latest requirements.