SEW-EURODRIVE mentioned its new oil cooling and provide programs are assembled in South Carolina, shortening supply occasions. Supply: SEW-EURODRIVE
SEW‑EURODRIVE now provides exterior oil cooling and provide programs for heavy business gearing with lead occasions as brief as six weeks. These programs are engineered to assist torque-dense gearboxes, the place thermal limitations typically decide gearbox dimension.
The firm famous that the exterior lubrication programs are constructed and configured at SEW-EURODRIVE Heavy Trade Gearing (HIG) in Wellford, S.C., Beforehand obtainable solely by way of longer-lead world channels, these programs at the moment are 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 crops, 92 meeting amenities, and over 21,000 workers. The Bruchsal, German-based firm offers engineered programs for industries together with automotive, meals and beverage, prescription drugs, mining, metal, logistics, vitality, and extra.
New merchandise maintain programs keep cool for important purposes
As HIG drive programs develop extra compact and power-dense, thermal administration turns into important, mentioned SEW‑EURODRIVE. It claimed that its exterior lubrication programs handle that problem, with configurations that guarantee oil is delivered, circulated, and cooled as wanted for industrial purposes.
The corporate mentioned obtainable programs embody oil-to-air cooling (OAP1), oil-to-water cooling (OWP1), and stress lubrication programs with out cooling (ONP1). Every sort is sized utilizing SEW‑EURODRIVE’s thermal validation instruments and might be gearbox-mounted or skid-mounted for flexibility in structure and upkeep entry.
As well as, the brand new exterior lubrication programs are designed to assist thicker startup oil viscosities as much as 5,000 cSt, mentioned SEW-EURODRIVE.
SEW-EURODRIVE provides modular and commonplace choices
SEW‑EURODRIVE mentioned its Oil Cooling and Provide Techniques might be tailor-made to robotic builders and machine integrators’ particular necessities. They embody modular, sensor-ready options to assist system reliability and monitoring.
Customary 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 observe the gearbox oil sump in actual time
These commonplace choices are in inventory and able to configure, in keeping with SEW-EURODRIVE. As a result of these programs are assembled within the U.S., supply occasions have been lowered from 14 to twenty weeks to as little as six weeks, the firm mentioned.
“With native meeting and commonplace stocked parts, we will now ship full exterior thermal administration options in six weeks—serving to our clients get their HIG programs up and working quicker and extra reliably,” said Austin Burdette, product supervisor at SEW‑EURODRIVE HIG USA.
