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 trade gearing with lead occasions as quick as six weeks. These techniques are engineered to assist torque-dense gearboxes, the place thermal limitations usually decide gearbox dimension.
The firm famous that the exterior lubrication techniques are constructed and configured at SEW-EURODRIVE Heavy Trade Gearing (HIG) in Wellford, S.C., Beforehand out there solely by way of longer-lead international 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 crops, 92 meeting services, and over 21,000 staff. The Bruchsal, German-based firm gives engineered techniques for industries together with automotive, meals and beverage, prescribed drugs, mining, metal, logistics, power, and extra.
New merchandise maintain techniques keep cool for essential functions
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 functions.
The corporate stated out there techniques embody oil-to-air cooling (OAP1), oil-to-water cooling (OWP1), and strain lubrication techniques with out cooling (ONP1). Every kind is sized utilizing SEW‑EURODRIVE’s thermal validation instruments and will be gearbox-mounted or skid-mounted for flexibility in structure 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 normal 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.
Commonplace 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 strain swap
• Oil temperature swap — all to observe the gearbox oil sump in actual time
These normal 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 normal stocked parts, we are able to now ship full exterior thermal administration options in six weeks—serving to our prospects get their HIG techniques up and operating sooner and extra reliably,” acknowledged Austin Burdette, product supervisor at SEW‑EURODRIVE HIG USA.