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WITTENSTEIN cyber motor goes SERVOsoft^®: technical data for the company’s standard servo drive solutions is now available in the powerful SERVOsoft^® sizing tool. With SERVOsoft^®, users in the plant and mechanical engineering sector can design, size and simulate complete multi-axis servo systems – including all their electrical and mechanical components – for tasks such as design, application, simulation and planning.

The industrial use of machine data is a key lever for greater efficiency, less downtime and more sustainable production. Nevertheless, the introduction of condition monitoring and predictive maintenance often fails in practice due to complex IT structures, high implementation costs and a lack of data transparency.

With the U1KM ultrasonic sensors in miniature design, wenglor is expanding its portfolio with a powerful solution for applications that require long ranges in the smallest installation space. The compact sensors enable reliable object detection of up to three meters and are therefore suitable for a wide range of tasks in logistics, packaging or mechanical engineering. 

Keeping service costs low in times of shortages of skilled personnel: Sunilux, the French manufacturer of bioclimatic pergolas, achieves this by using lubrication-free and maintenance-free polymer bearings from igus. The company can offer an above-average ten-year guarantee on its patio roof covering while simultaneously saving 20,000 hours of maintenance work and grease costs.

Easy cleaning of machines and systems is crucial in the food industry. However, the carriages of many linear guides are difficult to disassemble. To reduce downtime, igus has developed a new drylin W linear guide with a polymer carriage that can be removed for cleaning without tools. The system is the first linear guide in the world to receive EHEDG certification, giving it official approval for food technology.

igus continues to drive forward the vision of sustainable urban mobility. At the Eurobike trade show, the company is presenting an electric version of its igus:bike for the first time, responding to the growing demand for low-maintenance e-mobility in cities. The previous model has already proven its robustness on a 1.5-year world tour in wind and weather. The tried-and-tested plastic bicycle has been continuously enhanced and forms the basis for the new electric bicycle.

The switch from classic metal gearboxes to worm gear screw jacks made of high-performance plastic from the drygear Apiro series promises several advantages: reduced costs, lower weight and no need for lubrication. However, many design engineers were not able to make this transition because the operating environments were too harsh and demanding. With the drygear Apiro HD, igus is now presenting a hybrid solution that closes precisely this gap.

THE CHALLENGE
As industrial systems grow in complexity, efficient space utilization becomes a key design constraint.

ILME’s 21.21 enclosure series has been continuously expanding to meet this need — reducing footprint and volume while offering increasingly flexible wiring options.

The new bulkhead-surface mounting enclosures with M25 cable entry are the latest addition: for the first time, they bring surface-mounting capability with vertical configuration to the 21.21 version, eliminating the need to step up to a larger housing size.

The last 20 meters in automation have long been a bottleneck: Sensors and actuators had to be wired individually – the more safety signals and diagnostic data needed to be transmitted, the more complex the wiring became. EUCHNER solves this problem with IO-Link Safety, and instead of many wires, only a single cable is needed to transmit everything. And it goes even further: more functions, more data, more than just a safety signal.

Compact industrial articulated arm robots still pose challenges for design engineers when it comes to energy supply. There are hardly any suitable solutions on the market that can cope with the fast rotational movements along the first axis and the limited space available. igus is now closing this gap with a new unsupported energy chain from the twisterchain series.