SEW-EURODRIVE stated its new oil cooling and provide techniques are assembled in South Carolina, shortening supply occasions. Supply: SEW-EURODRIVE
SEW‑EURODRIVE now provides exterior oil cooling and provide techniques for heavy business gearing with lead occasions as quick as six weeks. These techniques are engineered to assist torque-dense gearboxes, the place thermal limitations typically decide gearbox measurement.
The firm famous that the exterior lubrication techniques are constructed and configured at SEW-EURODRIVE Heavy Business Gearing (HIG) in Wellford, S.C., Beforehand obtainable solely via longer-lead world channels, these techniques are actually stocked and assembled within the U.S., eliminating supply bottlenecks.
Based in 1931, SEW-EURODRIVE is an industrial automation chief, with operations in additional than 50 nations, 17 manufacturing vegetation, 92 meeting services, and over 21,000 workers. The Bruchsal, German-based firm offers engineered techniques for industries together with automotive, meals and beverage, prescription drugs, mining, metal, logistics, power, and extra.
New merchandise maintain techniques keep cool for essential purposes
As HIG drive techniques develop extra compact and power-dense, thermal administration turns into important, stated SEW‑EURODRIVE. It claimed that its exterior lubrication techniques tackle that problem, with configurations that guarantee oil is delivered, circulated, and cooled as wanted for industrial purposes.
The corporate stated obtainable techniques embody oil-to-air cooling (OAP1), oil-to-water cooling (OWP1), and stress lubrication techniques with out cooling (ONP1). Every sort is sized utilizing SEW‑EURODRIVE’s thermal validation instruments and will be gearbox-mounted or skid-mounted for flexibility in format and upkeep entry.
As well as, the brand new exterior lubrication techniques are designed to assist thicker startup oil viscosities as much as 5,000 cSt, stated SEW-EURODRIVE.
SEW-EURODRIVE provides modular and commonplace choices
SEW‑EURODRIVE stated its Oil Cooling and Provide Methods will be tailor-made to robotic builders and machine integrators’ particular necessities. They embody modular, sensor-ready options to assist system reliability and monitoring.
Normal stocked choices embody:
• Duplex oil filters (25µm) — permits filter change throughout operation
• Electro-optical contamination pop-up indicator
• Oil manometer gauge
• Oil thermometer gauge
• Oil stress change
• Oil temperature change — all to watch the gearbox oil sump in actual time
These commonplace choices are in inventory and able to configure, in line with SEW-EURODRIVE. As a result of these techniques are assembled within the U.S., supply occasions have been diminished from 14 to twenty weeks to as little as six weeks, the firm stated.
“With native meeting and commonplace stocked parts, we are able to now ship full exterior thermal administration options in six weeks—serving to our clients get their HIG techniques up and working quicker and extra reliably,” acknowledged Austin Burdette, product supervisor at SEW‑EURODRIVE HIG USA.
